Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume I, Part 128

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 924

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quarters acres of marsh. In the records of the division he is mentioned as "Mr.," a title then applied only as a mark of distinction, character and worth. When Wheelwright left Exeter, Augustine Storer also left the town, and is said to have taken up his abode at Wells, Maine. He married Sarah, daughter of Edward Hutch- inson, granddaughter of John Hutchinson, who was mayor of Lincoln, England, 1556-1564. She was a sister of Wheelwright's second wife.

(III) William Storer, son of Augustine and Susannah ( Hutchinson ) Storer, lived in Dover, New Hampshire, and died there in 1660. He married Sarah, daughter of Edward Starbuck, who came from Derbyshire, England, and was a member of the Dover convention and an elder of the church. After the death of Will- iam Storer his widow married, 1661, Samuel Austin, of Wells, Maine, to which place she took her children, and placed them under the guardianship of Austin, with whom they lived until of full age. He was keeper of a public house, commissioner for trials for several years, and doubtless a man of considerable conse- quence in the town. Here the Storer sons came to manhood well grounded in moral prin- ciples and became men of usefulness and worth. They were four in number: I. Benjamin, killed by Indians, 1677. 2. Joseph, born Sep- tember 23, 1648. 3. Samuel, lived in Charles- town, Massachusetts, and was a mariner ; mem- ber of the church in York, Maine; married Lydia Austin, and died June 10, 1700.

(IV) Lieutenant Joseph Storer, son of Will- iam and Sarah (Starbuck) Storer, was born September 23, 1648, and died in 1730. He was a lieutenant and in command of the garrison at Wells, Maine, during the earliest Indian troubles and also during and after King Philip's war. He owned a saw mill and carried on a large business in making lumber. He built a house on the main road in Wells, and after- ward surrounded it with palisades. During the next war he built several small houses inside the fortification for the use of those who took refuge there, and his house was con- stantly open to whomsoever would avail him- self of its protection. At different times armed troops were quartered there, while with truly patriotic spirit he always stood ready to min- ister to the wants of all settlers who had been driven from their homes by peril or suffering. Mr. Wheelwright had not yet built his garrison house, so that at three periods this was the frontier garrison of the province. Lieutenant Storer was in every way active in the common defense, encouraging the settlers to hold their

lands and frequently giving up his own land near the fort for cultivation and pastrrage by the refugees. The sick and wounded were cared for under his own hospitable roof by members of his household, and for all this ser- vice he neither asked nor received any remun- eration whatever. He was an officer in the service, but his voluntary acts were far more creditable than any war record, and it is said that to him more than to any other person was the province indebted for its preservation from entire desolation, for without his garrison house and the ample protection afforded by it the Indians would have either killed or driven every settler from the region. Joseph Storer was one of the founders of the church at York, hence his name does not appear among the founders of the church at Wells, although he became a deacon there and so continued to the end of his days. He is regarded as the pro- genitor of the Storer family of Wells and its vicinity. He possessed large means, and at the time of his death was considered the richest man in the town; his estate was appraised at about $5,000. He married Hannah, daughter of Roger and Sarah (Cross) Hill, of Saco, Maine ; children : 1. Hannah, born May 6, 1680; married Joshua Littlefield. 2. Sarah, December 2, 1682; died January 1, 1770; mar- ried Colburn. 3. Mary, born May 12, 1685; when a child she was stolen by the Indians and carried to Montreal, Canada ; mar- ried at Montreal, August 25, 1747, Jean St. Germaine. 4. Abigail, born October 29, 1687. 5. Joseph, August 29, 1690. 6. John, Septem- ber 5. 1694. 7. Keziah, May 2, 1697 ; married Ebenezer Plummer. 8. Ebenezer, born at Saco Fort, June 4, 1699; he and his brother Seth owned a sloop in 1739, and it was lost in 1741 ; in 1746 these brothers started on a visit to their aged mother at her home, but when they reach- ed Kittery they were compelled to turn back because of the hostile attitude of the Indians ; Ebenezer appears to have lived in Wells and Boston, and died May 22, 1761 ; married, June 20, 1723, Mary Edwards, and had ten children ; a son Ebenezer was treasurer of Harvard Col- lege. 9. Seth, born May 26, 1702 ; was a clergy- man, and lived in Watertown for fifty years.

(V) Jolın Storer, son of Lieutenant Joseph and Hannalı (Hill) Storer, was born Septem- ber 5, 1604, and died September 28, 1768. He was one of the most influential men of his time in the town and province, and was elected to several offices of responsibility and honor. He held a commission as colonel of militia, and was in command of a regiment in the expedi-

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tion against Louisburg. He served as repre- sentative to the general court, and for many years was a judge of the superior court. He married, October 11, 1722, Elizabeth, daughter of John Hill, of Berwick, Maine, who also was a judge of the court, captain of militia and representative to the general court.

(VI) John (2) Storer, son of Colonel John (I) and Elizabeth (Hill) Storer, was born in Wells, Maine, April 28, 1727, and died there June 15, 1764. He graduated from Harvard College in 1745, and received the degree of A. B. In business life he was a merchant and ship owner, a man of substance and influence, although he does not appear to have taken an active part in public affairs. He married, Octo- ber 26, 1749, Mary, daughter of John and Mary (Hall) Langdon, sister of Governor John Langdon, of New Hampshire, and a de- scendant of the fifth generation of Governor Dudley.

(VII) Woodbury Storer, son of John (2) and Mary (Langdon) Storer, was born in Wells, Maine, in 1760, and died in Portland, Maine, July II, 1825. He was a merchant and ship owner, engaged extensively in commerce, and acquired large wealth. He was highly educated, and for much of the time was in public life in one official capacity or another : chief justice of the court of common pleas, representative to the general court, state sen- ator, and for several years collector of customs at Portland. He married (first) Ann Titcomb, who died, leaving three children, and married (second) September 13, 1792, Margaret, daugh- ter of James and Susannah ( Coffin) Boyd, and sister of General John Parker Boyd. James Boyd was a grandson of the Earl of Kilmar- nock, Scotland, and his wife, Susannah Coffin, was a granddaughter of Tristram Coffin, a noted character in early New England history. Judge Woodbury and Ann ( Titcomb) Storer had one son, Woodbury Storer, lawyer, of Portland, and two daughters, Mrs. William Goddard and Mrs. Judge Potter. His children by his second wife were: Rev. John, a clergy- man of the Unitarian church; Robert Boyd, born 1795 ; Bellamy, born 1796; Frances Eliza- beth, born 1798; Margaret Susannah, born 1800 ; Dr. David Humphreys, born 1804.

(VIII) Robert Boyd Storer, son of Judge Woodbury and Margaret ( Boyd) Storer, was born in Portland, Maine, September 2, 1795, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, No- vember 14, 1870. He attended Bowdoin Col- lege, but left before graduation and entered mercantile pursuits in Boston, being first em-

ployed by the importing house of Codman & Ropes, and having acquired a good understand- ing of the business and methods of the firm he was given charge of matters of large import- ance. He travelled extensively in foreign coun- tries in the interest of his employers, and on one occasion sailed as supercargo, making a voyage around the world. For one year he lived at Archangel, Russia, and held a consular appointment there. Soon after returning to Boston he engaged in business on his own account, on India wharf, and for many years afterward was an important factor in the com- mercial life of the city. He was for many years Russian consul in Boston, and after his death, the consulate was represented by his son. Both father and son received orders of knighthood from the Russian government in recognition of services faithfully rendered. His endeavors in life were highly successful and throughout the period of his active career he held the confi- dence of all men in business and commercial circles. Storer street in Boston is named in allusion to him. He maintained a residence in Boston for more than twenty years, and about 1861 removed to Cambridge, where he after- ward lived. Mr. Storer married, in 1837, in Boston, Sarah Sherman Hoar, born November 9, 1817, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Sher- man) Hoar, and sister of the late Hon. George Frisbie Hoar, for many years senator in con- gress from Massachusetts. (See Hoar). Rob- ert Boyd and Sarah Sherman ( Hoar) Storer had four children : William Brandt, Sarah Frances, Elizabeth Hoar and Mrs. Joseph B. Warner.

(IX) William Brandt Storer, only son and eldest child of Robert Boyd and Sarah Sher- man (Hoar) Storer, was born in Boston, and graduated from Harvard College in 1859, A. B. Early in the civil war he entered the service and was colonel on the staff of General Devens. In business life he was a member of the im- porting and trading house of Robert B. Storer & Company. For a time he was a vice-consul of Russia, but generally he took little interest in political affairs. For several years he was a director of the National Bank of Commerce, Boston, and at one time was its vice-president. Mr. Storer died at his home in Cambridge, October 14, 1884. He married Emily F .. daughter of Samuel K. Williams, lawyer, of Boston, and had three children: Robert B., died young : Elizabeth W., and Helen Langdon Storer.

(VIII) Bellamy Storer, son of Woodbury and Margaret (Boyd) Storer, was born in

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Portland, Maine, March 9, 1796, and died in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 1, 1875. He was edu- cated at Bowdoin College, then studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1817, and in the same year began his professional career in Cincinnati. In 1824 he advocated the election of John Quincy Adams to the presidency, and edited the Crisis, an organ of his party. From 1835 to 1837 he was representative in congress, and declined renomination for another term; in- 1844 he was presidential elector on the Henry Clay ticket. For many years Judge Storer was a member of the faculty of the Cincinnati Law School, and served nineteen years on the bench of the supreme court of that city. He enjoyed special popularity as speaker at both political and religious meetings, and at one time in the early part of his life he was one of the leading spirits of a band of young men who were styled the "Flying Artil- lery," and who journeyed from town to town for the purpose of promoting evangelical ser- vices. In 1821 Judge Storer received the hon- orary degree of LL. D. from Bowdoin College. He married (first) Emily Bartow, who bore him two children: Emily, who married Rev. Mr. Bonté, a clergyman of the Protestant Epis- copal church, living in California ; and Francis. His second wife was Elizabeth Drinker, by whom he had two children, Bellamy and Eliz- abeth.

(IX) Bellamy (2) Storer, son of Bellamy (I) and Elizabeth (Drinker ) Storer, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, August 28, 1847; grad- uated from Harvard College 1867, and from the Cincinnati Law School 1869. He was ad- mitted to the bar in Cincinnati in April, 1869. and practiced in that city. From 1891 until 1895 he was representative in congress ; from 1897 to 1899 United States minister to Bel- gium ; and from June, 1899. to September,

1902, was United States minister to Spain. From 1902 to March, 1906, Mr. Storer was am- bassador of the United States to Austria-Hun- gary. He married Maria (Longworth) Nichols, of Cincinnati, daughter of Joseph Longworth, of that city. They have no children.

(VIII) Dr. David Humphreys Storer, son of Woodbury and Margaret ( Boyd) Storer, was born in Portland, Maine, March 26, 1804; graduated from Bowdoin College in 1822, stud- ied medicine with Dr. John C. Warren, and graduated from Harvard School of Medicine, M. D., in 1825, and in the same year began his professional career in that city. In 1837 he established the Tremont Street Medical School, and afterward conducted it with gratifying

success. However in 1854 he was appointed to the professorship of obstetrics and medical jurisprudence in Harvard Medical School, his alma mater, and soon afterward became dean of the school, both of which he held until 1868. From 1849 to 1858 Dr. Storer was physician to the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1837, during the earlier years of his practice, he was given charge of the departments of zoology and herpetology under direction of the Massa- chusetts Survey. He held membership in many of the leading professional and scientific socie- ties, and in 1866 was president of the Ameri- can Medical Association. He was a frequent contributor to the literature of his profession, and many of his papers are published in the transactions of the larger organizations of men of his profession. His larger published works include a translation from the French of Kiener's "Genera, Species, and Iconography of Recent Shells," Boston, 1837; "Report on the Ichthyology of Herpetology of Massachu- setts," 1839; "Synopsis of the Fishes of North America," 1846; "History of the Fishes of Massachusetts," 1853-1867 (in parts). Dr. Storer married and had five children: Dr. Horatio R., Professor Francis H., Robert W., Abbie M. and Mary G. Storer.

(IX) Dr. Horatio Robinson Storer, son of Dr. David Humphreys Storer, was born in Boston February 27, 1830: graduated from Harvard College in 1850, and devoted special attention to the study of natural sciences as a private pupil of Louis Agassiz and Asa Gray. Later on he took up the study of medicine, made the course of Harvard Medical School, and graduated M. D. in 1853. He then went to Europe and spent two years in post-graduate studies in London, Edinburgh and Paris, and during one year of this period he was assistant in private practice to Sir James Y. Simpson. In 1855 he established himself in practice in Boston, making gynecology a special feature of his extensive practice, and soon afterward began giving assistance to his father while the latter was conducting his course of lectures in Harvard Medical School. In 1865 he himself was chosen to the professorship of obstetrics and medical jurisprudence in the Berkshire Medical College, and filled that chair during the next four years. In order to secure for himself a better foundation for instruction in medical jurisprudence, Dr. Storer made the course of Harvard Law School and came to the bachelor degree in 1868. Afterward he established semi-annual courses for medical graduates upon the subject of surgical diseases

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of women, and admitted to his classes none except those who were in good standing in the American Medical Association. These courses became very popular with the profession and drew attendance from all parts of the country. In 1872, on account of impaired health, Dr. Storer went abroad for rest, and spent five years in various cities of Great Britain and continental Europe ; but they were not idle years, for the greater part of his time was given to study, with special attention to study of the fevers of southern Italy. On returning to America he settled in Newport, Rhode Island, where he still lives, although now retired from profes- sional pursuits. For many years he has en- joyed wide celebrity as a numismatist, and besides has devised and patented several valu- able surgical and gynecological instruments and inauguated new methods. He is a life member and honorary president of the New- port Medical Society and the Newport Natural History Society ; member of the Gynecological Society of Boston, and consulting physician to Newport Hospital. His published works on professional subjects include, "Criminal Abor- tion in America," 1859; "Criminal Abortion, its Nature, its Evidence and its Law" (in col- laboration ) ; "Why Not? a Book for Every Woman," 1865: "Is it I? a Book for Every Man," 1869; "On Nurses and Nursing," "On Insanity in Women." In 1868 Dr. Storer was president of the American Medical Associa- tion, in 1877 was president of the Association of American Medical Editors, and in the same year was president of the Gynecological Sec- tion of the Ninth International Medical Con- gress. He married (first) Emily Elvira Gil- more, by whom he had three sons: Frank Addison, John Humphreys and Malcolm; he married (second) Caroline Gilmore, sister of his first wife and by whom he had one daugh- ter : he married (third ) Frances McKenzie.

(X) John Humphreys Storer, son of Dr. Horatio Robinson and Emily Elvira (Gilmore) Storer, was born in Milton, Massachusetts, September 28, 1859, and received his earlier literary education in private schools in Boston ; St. Mark's School, Southboro, Massachusetts ; and at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany; his higher training at Harvard College, from which he graduated A. B. in 1882; and his profes- sional education at Harvard Law School, where he graduated LL. B. in 1885. Afterwards he spent four months in the office of Ropes, Gray & Loring, lawyers, Boston, and in 1885 was admitted to practice in the courts of the com- monwealth. Since he came to the Suffolk bar,

Mr. Storer has devoted his attention chiefly to real estate and the management of trust prop- erty, and has had a principal part in the organi- zation of a number of trusts and corporations. Including those to be named hereinafter, he is director or trustee of forty-two corporations or trusts, of twenty-four of which he is treas- urer, these twenty-four having over twenty- five millions of dollars cash invested or deposit- ed in banks or trust companies.

During the course of his business career Mr. Storer has been identified with various institu- tions and interests of Boston, Massachusetts, and New York, some of the principal of which may be mentioned as follows: Member First Corps Cadets, 1881-88 ; treasurer, secretary and director New York Suburbs Company, City Buildings Company, Kingsboro Realty Com- pany, Randolph Realty Company, Chatsworth Rcalty Company, Pelhamwood Company, Clif- ford B. Harmon & Co., Incorporated, Harmon Water Company ; Tuckahoe Associates, Brook- lyn Associates, Metropolitan Associates of New York, Eureka Harmon Stone Company ; treas- urer and director of Brooklyn Development Company, Greater New York Development Company. Wood Harmon Bond Company, and Hudson Co-operative Savings and Loan Asso- ciation ; secretary and director Wood Harmon Richmond Realty Company ; trustee and director Boston Water Power Company; trustee Bos- ton Suburban Development Trust, Church Ave- nue Real Estate Association, Merchants' Real Estate Trust, Staten Island Associates, Pelham Associates, Harmon Park Trustees, Randolph Associates, Winthrop Development Trust, Wood Harmon Associates, Wood Harmon Real Estate Association and Wood Harmon Real Estate Trustees ; director Boston Co-operative Build- ing Company, Harwood Construction Com- pany, Montague Builders' Supply Company, New England Watch and Ward Society : Point Shirley Company, Realty Company, State Street Trust Company, Windsor Trust Company ( New York), Workingman's Building Association, Workingman's Loan Association ; trustee Peo- ple's Institute, Robert Treat Paine Association, Wells Memorial Institute for Workingmen ; senior warden Christ Church, Protestant Epis- copal, Waltham; member of National Geo- graphical Society, American Academy for the Advancement of Science, American Academy of Social and Political Science, Boston Natural History Society, City History Club of New York, National Civic Federation, Boston Ath- letic Association, and of the Somerset, Union, Harvard. Economic. Exchange, St. Botolph,

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Boston City, Massachusetts Republican, Oak- ley Country, Essex County, Manchester, Yacht, New York Athletic, Episcopalian, Harvard of New York, and University of New York clubs. His address is 16 State street, Boston, and 315 Madison avenue, New York.

Mr. Storer married, in Boston, November 18, 1885, Edith, daughter of Robert Treat Paine. Children, with ages in 1909: John Humphreys (22), Emily (21), Edith (19), Robert Treat Paine (17), Theodore Lyman (14) and Lydia (10).

( IX) Professor Francis Humphreys Storer, son of Dr. David Humphreys Storer, was born in Boston, March 27, 1832; was a student in Lawrence Scientific School ( Harvard), 1850- 51 ; became assistant in chemistry to Professor Cooke in 1851 ; was made chemist to Northern Pacific Exploring Expedition for the federal government, 1853 ; returned to Lawrence Scien- tific School and completed his course there, graduating B. Sc. 1855 (A. M. Harvard 1870). From 1855 to 1857 Dr. Storer continued his studies in chemistry in foreign cities, then re- turned and practiced in Boston as chemist from 1857 to 1865, and from 1865 to 1870 was pro- fessor of general and industrial chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 1870 he has held the professorship of chemistry in the Bussey Institution, Harvard College. Professor Storer is author of "Dic- tionary of the Solubilities of Chemical Sub- stances," 1846; "Manual of Inorganic Cliem- istry" (in collaboration with President Eliot, of Harvard), 1869; "Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis" (collaborator with Eliot ), 1868; "Cyclopedia of Quantitative Chemical Analysis," "Agriculture in Some of Its Re- lations with Chemistry." 1897; "Elementary Manual of Chemistry" ( Lindsay, collaborator ). 1894 ; "Manual of Qualitative Analysis" ( Lind- say, collaborator ), 1899; "Bulletin of the Bus- sey Institution," "Alloys of Copper and Zinc" and "Manufacture of Paraffin Oils." Pro- fessor Storer married Catherine Eliot, sister of President Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard.

Governor John Endicott, im- ENDICOTT migrant ancestor, was born in Dorsetshire, England, in 1588; died in Boston, March 15, 1665. He sailed from Weymouth in the ship "Abigail," Henry Gauden, master, June 20, 1628, and arrived at Naumkeag, September 6, 1628, with a hundred planters that came to form a colony under his leadership. Johnson in his "Wonder- working Providence" says: "A fit instrument

to begin this wilderness worke, of courage bold, undaunted yet sociable and of a cheer ful spirit, loving and austere, applying himselfe to either as occasion served." He planted the first per- manent and legally recognized settlement in Massachusetts, and was known as the Massa- chusetts Bay Colony. He found the remnants of the Cape Ann colony at Naumkeag (Salem) under Conant, who in one sense was the first governor of the tiny colony founded by the Dorchester Company at Cape Ann, and re- moved to Naumkeag, a virtual failure. Endi- cott's company bought all the property and privileges of the Dorchester Company, both at Cape Ann and Naumkeag, and he removed the frame house from Cape Ann for his own use. Endicott was governor over this colony until he was succeeded by Mr. John Winthrop, who was chosen governor of the company and also of the Plantation in June, 1630. Endicott took the oath of office as assistant September 7, 1630, and was again elected governor March 26, 1649, serving as governor seventeen years in all. He was a magistrate and one of the most influential and able statesmen of the col- ony, in public office thirty-seven years. He was also captain of the militia. He was a zealous Puritan and a pronounced Republican in sentiment. He was well educated and always a friend of learning as well as of religion. Like most of his associates in the colony, he was intolerant. He was a member of the Salem church until November, 1664, though he lived nine years in Boston, having removed there in 1655. In 1658 he bought a quarter interest in Block Island. His place of burial is unknown. It is said, however, that his gravestone or tomb was destroyed by the British soldiers during the revolution. He called Roger Ludlow "my brother" in a letter to Governor Winthrop in 1644. He married (first) Anna Gower, who came over in 1628, and died in 1629. She was cousin or niece of Governor Matthew Crad- dock, and some of the needlework she did is still preserved. Governor Endicott married (second) August 17, 1630, Elizabeth Gibson, of Cambridge, England. The will of Governor Endicott was dated May 2, 1659. It mentions his orchard farm at Salem given him by the court of assistants, July 3, 1632, and which still belongs to a descendant in the ninth gen- eration ; a farm in Salem which he bought of Henry Chickering, October 4, 1648, which was given to John Endicott at the time of his mar- rige in 1653, and which afterward became the home of Rebecca Nourse, of witchcraft fame ; a portion of this house is now being restored by

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume I, Part 128

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848- Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 924

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 924