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the Cincinnati Law school, LL.D., 1869. He was admitted to the bar in April, 18G9, and began practice in Cincinnati. He was married. March 20, 1S86, to Maria, daughter of Joseph and Aniiio (Rives) Longworth of Cincinnati. He was a Republican representative from the first Oliio district in the 52d and 53d congresses, 1891-9.5; first assistant .secretary of state, 1897; U.S. minister to Belgium, 1897-99; transferred to Madrid, Spain, in 1899. where he served. 1899-1902, and in 1902 appointed U.S. ambassador extraor- dinary and plenipotentiary to Austria-Hungary.

STORER, Clement, senator, was born in Kennebuiik. Maiiu-. in 170. He studied medicine under Dr. Amnii R. Cutter of Portsmouth, N.H., •where, after continuing his studies in Europe, he commenced practice. He served in the militia, being advanced through successive promotions from captain to major-general; was for several years a member of the state legislature, serving one term as speaker; was a representative from New Hampshire in the 10th congress, 1807-09; elected U.S. senator to fill the unexpired term of Jeremiah Mason, resigned, serving, 1817-19, and was high sheriff of Rockingham county. 1818-24, He died at Portsmouth, N.H., Nov. 22. 1830.

STORER, David Humphreys, educator and author, was born in Portland. Maine, March 26, 180-1; son of Woodbury (chief-justice of the court of common pleas in Portland) and Margaret (Boyd) .Storer. and grandson of John Lang<lon, statesman (q.v.). He was graduated from Bow- doin, A.B., 1822, A.M., 1825, and from Harvard, M.D., 1825. He was married, April 30, 1829, to Abby, daughter of Thomas and Abigail (Stone) Brewer of Boston, Mass., and a descendant of Governor Dudley (q.v.) of Massachusetts Bay colony. He began practice in Boston, where in 1837 he founded the Tremont Street Medical school, in which he was instructor in midwifery, diseases of women and children and medical jurisprudence, 1838-54; was at the liead of the department of iclithyology and herpetologj', under the auspices of the Massachusetts state survey, 1837, and served as physician to the Massachusetts General hospital, 1849-58. He was dean of the Harvard Medical sciiool, 185.5-04, and professor of obstetrics and medical juris- prudence, 1854-68. He was associated with Prof. Louis Agassiz in natural historj' research. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Bowdoin college in 1876; was president of the American Medical association in 1866; vice- president of the Boston Natural History society; a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; a member of the American Philosoph- ical society, and of various medical socifties. He is the author of: Report on the Ichthyology and Herpetology of Massachusetts (1839); Synopsis of

the Fishes of Xorth America (1846), and Histoid of the Fishes of Massachusetts ■ (1853-67). He died in Boston, JIass., Sept. 10, 1891.

5T0RER, Francis Humphreys, educator and author, was born in Boston. Mass., Marcli 27, 1832; son of David Humphreys (q.v.) and Abb}- Jane (Brewer) Storer. He studied law at the Law- rence Scientific school. Harvard, 1850-51; was assistant in chemistry to Josiah P. Cooke, 1851- 53; chemist to the U.S. North Pacific exploring expedition in 1853, and after completing his course at Harvard, was graduated. B.S., 1855. He continued his studies at the universities of Germany and Paris, 1855-57; practised as chem- ist in Boston, Mass., 1857-05, and was professor of general and industrial chemistry and of general and analytical chemistry at the Massacliusetts Institute of Technology, 1865-70, visiting Europe in 1867 for further scientific study. He was married, June 21, 1871, to Catharine, daugliterof Samuel A. and Mary (Lyman) Eliot, of Boston. In 1870 he was appointed professor of agricul- tural cliemistry at Harvard, and in 1871 dean of Bussey Institution. He was the American editor of the "Repertoire de chimie appliquee," 1859- 63; received the honorary degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1870; was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of various scientific societies in the United States and Europe. He is the author of: Alloys of Copper and Zinc (1860); Mamtfacinrc of Paraffine Oils (1860); Dictionary of Solubilities of Chemical Substances (1864); Manual of Qual- itative Chemistry (1868) and Manual of In- organic Chemistry (1869), both with Charles W. Eliot; Cyclopcedia of Quantitative Chemical Anal- ysis (1870-73); Agriculture in Some of Its Rela- tions ivith Chemistry (1887); Elementary Ma)iual of Chemistry (1894), and Manual of Qualitative Analysis (1899), both with W. B. Lindsay; Bul- letin of the Bussey Institution (1S71-1902).

STORER, George Washington, naval officer, was born in Portsmouth, N. H., in 1789. He was warranted midshipman, U.S. navj-, Jan. 16, 1809; commissioned lieutenant, July 24, 1813; served on the man-of-war Independence, under Commo- dore Bainbridge, in the Mediterranean, 1815-16; was in command of the schooner Lynx in tiie Gulf of Mexico, 1817; was attached to the frig- ates Congress and Java, cruising in the West Indies, 1818-19, and to the Constitution, Mediter- ranean station, 1820-24. He was promoted mas- ter-commandant, April 24, 1828; captain, Feb. 9, 1837; was in command of the receiving-ship Constellation, Boston, Mass., 1839; of the frigate Potomac, Brazil .station, 1840-42; of the Ports- mouth navy-yard. 1843-46, and commander-in- chief of the Brazil squadron, 1847-50. He was on leave of absence, 1851-54, in the meantime