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serving as president of the board of inquiry ; was governor of the Philadelphia Naval asylum, 18o5-57 ; was retired, Dec. 21, 1861, serving on special duty in Brooklyn, N.Y., 1861-G2, and pro- moted rear-admiral on the retired list, July 16, 1863. He died in Portsmouth, N.H., Jan. 8, 1864. STORER, Horatio Robinson, physician, was born in Boston, Mass., Feb. 27, 1830 ; son of Dr. David Humphreys (q.v.) and Abby Jane (Brewer) Storer. He attended the Boston Latin school, 1811-46 ; was graduated from Harvard college, A.B., 1850, A.M. and M.D., 1853, in the meantime visiting Labrador and Russia ; contin- ued his studies abroad, 1853-55, serving one year as assistant to Sir James Y. Simpson, and com- menced practice in Boston, Mass., in 1855, where he subsequently became physician, surgeon and consulting surgeon to several hospitals. He as- sisted his father at Harvard previous to 1865 ; was a professor in Berkshire Medical college, 1865-90 ; was graduated from Harvard Law school in 1868, and for several years lectured on gynecology before medical graduates in Boston, Mass. He resided abroad, 1872-77, and upon liis return established himself in Newport, R.I., where he practised until invalidism compelled his retirement. He then devoted himself to the preparation of a work upon the numismatic his- tory of medicine ; the first attempt of its kind in the English language. Dr. Storer was three times mai'ried ; first, to Emily Elvira, daughter of Addison Gilmore of Boston, Mass.; secondly, to Augusta Caroline, sister of his first wife, and thirdly, to Frances Sophia Mackenzie of Canada. Of his children, John Humphreys was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1882, LL. B., 1885, and Mal- colm, Harvard, A.B., 1885, M.D., 1889, was cura- tor of coins and medals at Harvard, and a prac- tising surgeon in Boston, Mass. Dr. Storer was one of the founders of the Gynecological society of Boston, serving as its secretary, as editor of its journal, 1869-73, and as its honorary president ; an incorporator of the Massachusetts Infant Asylum for Foundlings ; president of the Rocky Mountain Medical association and of the Associa- tion of American Medical Editors ; prize essayist and secretary of the American Medical associa- tion, 1865, and vice-president, 1868 ; was ad- mitted to the Medical Register of Great Britain, 1876, and was a member or corresponding mem- ber of numerous medical, obstetrical, medico- legal, numismatic and archaBological organiza- tions at home and abroad. He devised a number of both surgical and gynecological instruments and methods, and is the author of : The Obstetric Memoirs and Contributions of Sir James Y. Simpson, with Dr. Wm. O. Priestly (1856) ; Crim- inal Abortion in America (1880) ; Whrj Not ? A Book for Every Woman (1866) ; 7s it I? A

Book For Every Man (1867) ; Criminal Abortion, Its Nature, Its Evidence and its Laio, with Franklin F. Heard (1868) ; On Nurses and Nurs- ing (1808) ; Southern Italy as a Health Station for Invalids (1875) ; and papei's on medical nu- mismatics in the New England Medical Monthly (1886) ; the American Journal of Numismatics (annually from 1887) ; Medico-Legal Journal (1888) ; Journal of the American Medical Associ- tion (lS8d); Transactions of the Rhode Island Medical society (1891) and Proceedings of the Newport Natural History society (Part I., 1893 ; II., 1900).

STOREY, Moorfield, lawyer and author, was born in Roxbury, Mass., March 19, 1845 ; son of Charles W. and Elizabeth (Moorfield) Storey; grandson of Charles W. and Elizabeth (Burn- ham) Storey, and of James and Nancy (Eaton) Moorfield, and a descendant of "William Storey and Benjamin Eaton, officers of the IMassacusetts line, during the Revolution, and through various branches from some of the earliest settlers in Essex county, Mass. He was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1866, A.M., 1869 ; attended Harvard Law school, 1866-67 ; was private secretary to Charles Sumner, November, 1867-May, 1869 ; was admit- ted to the bar in September, 1869, and began practice in Boston, Mass. He was married, Jan. 6, 1870, to Gertrude, daughter of Richard D. and Martha Jefferson (HaGkley)Cutts, of Washington, D.C., and made his home in Lincoln, Mass. He edited the American Law Review with Samuel Hoar, 1873-79 ; was overseer of Harvard, 1877-88 and from 1892 ; president of the American Bar as- sociation, 1896, and of the Massachusetts Reform club, 1896-99, and in 1900 was the Independent candidate from the eleventh Massachusetts dis- trict for the 57th congress. He is the author of : Politics as a Duty and as a Career, pamphlet (1889) ; Life of Charles Sumner, in the " Ameri- can Statesmen " series (1900), and of various ad- dresses on political and other questions which have been published as pamplilets.

STORRS, Charles Backus, educator, was born in Long Meadow, Mass., 'May 15, 1794 ; son of tlie Rev. Richard Salter Storrs, and grandson of John Storrs, a chaplain in the Revolution. He received his preparatory education at Monson academy, aiass. ; matriculated at the College of New Jersey, but did not return for his senior year on account of ill health ; studied theologj' at Bridgeliampton, Long Island, N.Y., and was licensed to preach in 1813. He entered the ministry, but was soon obliged to return to Long Meadow, to recover his health. He was graduated from Andover Theo- logical seminary, B.D., 1830; was ordained an evangelist, at Charleston, S.C, bj' the Congrega- tional association, Jan. 3, 1821 ; served as a mis- sionary in South Carolina and Georgia, 1820-23,