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Storer, Francis Humphreys – Story, George Henry

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, 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, 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.

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