Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1918 — Origin of Blizzard. [ARTICLE]

Origin of Blizzard.

Blizzard is undoubtedly a word of American origin, but it is much older than suggested. In Amersham (Eng-) churchyard today there is a tomb of the Blizard family and people of that; name still reside in the village of Chai-' font St. Giles. A man of this name accompanied William Penn to the new l world. This Blizard, it is said, deveb oped very unsociable habits and set-i tied far away from his fellows in the remote Northwest. Now a northwest-' ern snowstorm is the most disagreeable thing there is about the whole climate,; and Mr. Blizard, being so unpleasant a person to his neighbors, his name was adopted to describe the objectionable type of weather which blew from his direction. >