Appendix 12

Recalls Storm of ‘88

John Borman and Elizabeth Vollkommer were courting during the year of the great blizzard. In fact, it was on that warmish, drizzly night of March 12, 1888, that Mr. Borman made one of his frequent trips to Frank Square to call upon Miss. Vollkommer. It didn't begin snowing until about midnight, and young Borman got back to Brooklyn before the blizzard broke. But the next day, he remembers, there work for him. He couldn't get out of his house. And Mrs. Borman remembers that morning too. She remembers how her father got stuck in shoulder-deep-snow on his way out of the barns, and her brothers had to go to his rescue. Seven months later, John Borman and Elizabeth Vollkommer were married at a church at Brooklyn.