John Humphreys Storer

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John Humphreys Storer (* 28. September 1859 in Milton , Massachusetts ; † 25. December 1935 in Waltham , Massachusetts) was an American lawyer , project developers , real estate professional and philanthropist .

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John Humphreys Storer was born on September 28, 1859 as the son of the doctor, anti-abortion and numismatist Horatio Robinson Storer and his wife Emily Elvira Storer (née Gilmore) in the city of Milton in the US state of Massachusetts. He comes from a well-known and respected family; one of his uncles was the chemist Francis Humphreys Storer , his grandfather was the physician and zoologist David Humphreys Storer . Other well-known ancestors of John Humphreys Storer include the politicians and diplomats Bellamy Storer senior and junior , as well as Clement Storer . The first ancestor in America, and in this sense ancestral mother , is said to be an Augustine Storer who emigrated from Lincolnshire in England to Boston , Massachusetts in 1629 . John Humphreys Storer received his education at private schools in Boston, as well as at St. Mark's School in Southborough , a Boston suburb. He also studied for one year in Frankfurt am Main and another three years in Italy before attending Harvard College in his home country. He graduated from the latter educational institution in 1882 with a Bachelor of Arts . During his student days, he was considered an active and popular student who pursued various activities. He led various student organizations, was editor of the Harvard Crimson , and director of his class at the Harvard Cooperative Society . Furthermore, Humphreys Storer attended Harvard Law School , which he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in 1885 before he was admitted to the Boston bar in the same year. In the same year he married on November 18, Edith Lyman Paine (1863-1924), the daughter of the lawyer and philanthropist Robert Treat Paine . With this he had the children Emily Lyman (1886–1975), John Humphreys junior (1888–1976), Edith (1890–1974), Robert Treat Paine (1893–1962), Theodore Lyman (1895–1978), Lydia Lyman ( 1899-1991).

After some time as a lawyer, however, his interests changed, whereupon he resigned his practice as a lawyer and concentrated on activities in some foundations of the family and in the real estate sector. Volume 14 of The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography , published in 1910, mentions over 40 corporations and foundations for which Humphreys Storer was also a director or trustee. At that time he was registered as treasurer of another 23 companies. In an obituary published on the occasion of his death, it is mentioned that he is said to have been director or authorized representative of over 50 companies at the same time. He also served as director of the Episcopal City Mission on Tremont Street , Boston , and director of the New England Watch and Ward Society , the Workingmen's Building Association, and the Workingmen's Loan Association . He has also served as Trustee of the People's Institute founded by Charles Sprague Smith and the Wells Memorial Institute for Workingmen , and Trustee and Secretary of the Robert Treat Paine Association and Senior Warden of Christ Church in Waltham , Massachusetts. He was also a member of the Massachusetts Automobile Association and American Automobile Association , as well as a member of Somerset, Union, Boston Athletic, Harvard, City, Boston City, Exchange, Essex County Country, Manchester Yachst, Oakley Country and various republican clubs from Boston and the local university, as well as from New York Athletioc, City History and the Harmon Country Clubs of New York. He was also a member of the Harvard Law Association, the Bostonian Society, the Boston Chamber of Commerce, the Boston Merchants Association and the Society of Colonial Wars.

He died on December 25, 1935, at the age of 76, in his home in Waltham, a western suburb of Boston. He spent most of the winters before his death in Washington, DC , where he did charity work, particularly at the American Red Cross National Headquarters for the American Red Cross . At the aforementioned organization he was a member of the National Board of Incorporators . He was survived by both his wife and their six children. He was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery .

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SURNAME Humphreys Storer, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer, project developer and real estate specialist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Milton , Massachusetts , United States
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1935
Place of death Waltham , Massachusetts , United States