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Storer, Bellamy – Stott, Charles Adams

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Storer, Bellamy

lawyer, jurist, educator, congressman, was born March 9, 1798, in Portland, Maine. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1835 to 1837; and was a presidential elector in 1844. He served three terms as a judge of the superior court in the district of Cincinnati; and was a professor in the Cincinnati Law school. He died June 1, 1875, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Storer, Bellamy

lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 28, 1847, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was elected from Ohio to the fifty-second and re-elected to the fifty-third congress as a republican.

Storer, Clement

United States senator, was born in 1760 in Kennebunk, Maine. He was a United States senator from New Hampshire from 1817 to 1819.

He died Nov. 22, 1830, in Portsmouth, N. H.

Storer, David Humphreys

physician, surgeon, author, was born in 1804.

In 1822 he graduated from Bowdoin college; studied medicine and became a successful physician and surgeon of Boston, Mass. In 1837 he originated the Tremont Street Medical school, and in 1854 was called to the chair of obstetrics and medical jurisprudence in the medical department of Harvard university, of which institution he was also dean of the faculty. He has contributed valuable papers to various publications on zoölogy and herpetology; and was the author of Ichthyology and Herpetology of Massachusetts; Synopsis of North American Fishes; and History of the Fishes of Massachusetts.

Storer, Francis Humphreys

educator, chemist, author, was born March 27, 1832, in Boston, Mass. He is an eminent chemist, professor of agricultural chemistry at Harvard university from 1870, dean of the Bussey institute. He is the author of Alloys of Copper and Zinc; Manufacture of Paraffin Oils; First Outlines of a Dictionary of the Solubilities of Chemical Substances; Manual of Inorganic Chemistry; Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis; and Agriculture in Some of its Relations with Chemistry.

Storer, Horatio Robinson

physician, surgeon, author, was born Feb. 27, 1830, in Boston, Mass. He is a surgeon of note; and the author of Why Not?

Book for Every Woman; Is It I? a Book for Every Man; Nurses and Nursing; and Criminal Abortion. a

Storey, Moorfield

lawyer, author, was born in 1845, in Massachusetts. He is a Boston lawyer living in Brookline, Mass.; and the author of Life of Charles Sumner.

Stork, Charles Augustus

clergyman, author, was born Sept. 4, 1838, near Frederick county, Md. He was a lutheran clergyman, professor of theology at Gettysburg in 1881-83; and the author of Light on the Pilgrim's Way. He died Dec. 17, 1883, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Stork, Charles Augustus Gott- Lieb

clergyman, was born June 16, 1764, in Germany. In 1788 he accepted a call as pastor and missionary among lutherans in North Carolina. When in 1803 the synod of North Carolina was organized he was elected the first president, and he was annually re-elected whenever he could be present. He died March 27, 1831, in Salisbury, N. C.

Stork, Theophilus

clergyman, author, was born in August, 1814, near Salisbury, N. C. He was a lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia; and the author of Life of Luther; Luther's Christmas Tree; Luther and the Bible; Afternoon; Home Scenes in the New Testament; and The Unseen World. He died March 28, 1874, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Storm, John B

educator, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 19, 1838, in Monroe county, Pa. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-second, forty-third, forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat.

Storm, John C

lawyer, was born March 6, 1866, in New England. He received a thorough education in the public schools, and graduated from the Missouri state university. He has gained distinction as an ablelawyer of Kirksville, Mo.; has served as city attorney; and takes prominent part in public affairs.

He is also a constant contributor to many of the leading newspapers and magazines of the United States. a

Storrs, Charles Backus

clergyman, abolitionist, college president, was born May 15, 1794, in Long Meadow, Mass.

In 1831 he was elected president of the Western Reserve college. He died Sept. 15, 1833, in Braintree, Mass. His death was the subject of one of Whittier's most stirring anti-slavery poems.

Storrs, Henry Randolph

lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 3, 1787, in Middletown, Conn. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1819 to 1821, and from 1823 to 1831. He died July 29, 1837, in New Haven, Conn.

Storrs, Richard Salter

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 21, 1821, in Braintree, Mass. He was a distinguished congregational clergyman of Brooklyn, pastor of the Church of the Pilgrims from 1846; and the author of The Constitution of the Human Soul; Historical Addresses; Divine Origin of Christianity; Conditions of Success in Preaching without Notes; John Wycliffe and the First English Bible; Manliness in the Scholar; Love to Christ; Recognition of the Supernatural; Bernard of Clairvaux; and Forty Years of Pastoral Life. He died Aug. 11, 1873, in Braintree, Mass.

Storrs, William Lucius

educator, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 25, 1795, in Middletown, Conn. He was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1829 to 1833, and again from 1839 to 1841. He was judge of the supreme court of Connecticut from 1840 to 1856; and was chief justice of that court from 1856 until his death. He was also professor of law in Yale college in 1846 and 1847. He died June 25, 1861, in Hartford, Conn.

Storts, Jefferson Davis

journalist, lawyer, legislator, was born March 18, 1858, in Lawrence county, Ark. During 1877-84 he was engaged in journalism; and since that time has practiced law, and is now one of the foremost lawyers of Missouri at St. Louis. For two years he was prosecuting attorney of Shannon county; and in 1883-85 served with distinction as a member of the Missouri state legislature. He has also been a nominee for congressman on the democratic ticket.

Story, George Henry

artist, was born Jan. 22, 1835, in New Haven, Conn.

He has attained success as an artist; and is curator in the department of painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York city. He has been president of the Artist's Fund society; vice-president of the Lotos club; an associate of the National Academy of Design; and is a prominent member of various other societies.

Story, Isaac

lawyer, poet, was born Aug. 25, 1774, in Marblehead, Mass. He was a lawyer and verse writer of Castine, Maine; and the author of An Epistle from Tarico to Inkle; Consolatory Odes; and A Parnassian Shop. He died July 19, 1803, in Marblehead, Mass.

Story, Joseph

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, author, was born Sept. 18, 1779, in Marblehead, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts state legislature in 1805, and was elected speaker.

During the years 1808 and 1809 he was a representative in congress; and in 1811 was appointed a judge of the supreme court of the United States, which office he held until his death. He was the author of The Power of Solitude, with Fugitive Poems, a somewhat callow performance; and his first legal production, which appeared in 1805, was a Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions. His subsequent works include, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States; The Conflict of Laws, his most able effort; Equity Jurisprudence; The Law of Agency; Law of Bailments; Equity Pleadings; Law of Partnership; Law of Promissory Notes; and Miscellaneous Writings. He died Sept. 10, 1845, in Cambridge, Mass.

Story, William

lawyer, jurist, was born April 4, 1843, in Waukesha, Wis. He attended the Salem Classical and High schools, Mass.; and graduated from the law department of the Michigan university. He is one of the foremost lawyers of the West at Ouray, Colo. In 1867-68 he was judge of the eighth circuit of Arkansas; during 1868-73 was judge of the second circuit of Arkansas; and in 1869 was special chief justice of Arkansas. During 1871-74 he was judge of the United States district court, western district of Arkansas; and in 1891-92 he served with distinction as lieutenant-governor of Colorado.

Story, William Wetmore

lawyer, sculptor, author, poet, was born Feb. 12, 1819, in Salem, Mass. His prose writings include, The Law of Contracts; The Law of Sales; Life of Joseph Story; Proportions of the Human Figure; Roba di Roma; The American Question; Fiammetta, a novel; Conversations in a Studio; and Excursions in Art and Letters. The Castle of St. Angelo; A Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem; Nero, an Historical Play; and a two-volume edition of Poems, comprise his verse. He and She: a Poet's Portfolio; and A Poet's Portfolio: Later Readings, contain both poetry and prose.

He died in 1895.

Stott, Charles Adams

soldier, manufacturer, legislator, was born Aug. 18, 1835, in Lowell, Mass. During the civil war he served as major of the sixth regiment Massachusetts volunteer infantry.

In 1867 he was elected a member of the Massachusetts state legislature; and during 1875-76 was mayor of Lowell, Mass.

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