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STORM AND WEATHER SIGNALS. 604 STORY. duration is first sounded and then the longer 1817; resided and practiced law in Middletown; blasts (4 to 6 seconds), which refer to weather, and was a member of Congress 1829-33 and and the shorter blasts ( 1 to 3 seconds), which 1839-40. He was a Whig in politics. In the refer to temperature, the former being sounded latter year he was appointed associate judge of first. The signals are as follows: the State Supreme Court of Errors; Chief .Jus- gj^^gjg Indicate ^^' 1856; and was professor of law in Yale Col- One long Fair weather lege, 1846-47. His decisions are printed in the Two long Rain or snow Connecticut Reports. Sl;^*^;5S^::;:::::::;:::::::::::::;::::::::::::::::Lo^.-'Smf:^r^:i" storthing, storamg. The legislative as- Twoehort Higher temperature sembly nf Norway (q.v.). Threeehort... vf ""^ ".™ STO'RY, .Joseph (1779-1845). An eminent These signals may be repeated to avuia error. . ■ ■ ^ i ■ i i ^ a r i i i i Ameruan jurist and judge, born at Marblehead, STORM KING. A rocky peak of the High- Mass. He graduated from Harvard College lands of the Hudson, 1530 feet in height, 4 miles in 1798, studied law, and was admitted to north of West Point. Its Dutch name was Bo- the bar in 1801. For a time he gave con- terberg. Butter Mountain. At its foot lies the siderable attention to general literature and town of Cornwall. poetry. In 1804 he published The Power of Soli- STORMS, Cape of. See Cape of Stoem.s. ""^*;' '-^n*! °"'"- P°eras, which were not favorably received. He was discouraged bv this tailure, STORM VAN 'SGRAVESANDE, van sgra'- which he always felt keenly, and' thereafter de- vr-7.;in'd<'. A name sometimes applied to the voted himself to law and politics. He was elected Dutch mathematician Willem Gravesande (q.v.). to the State Legislature in 1805 and became STOR'NOWAY. The chief town of Lewis a leader of the Bepubllcan, or, as it was after- with Harris (q.v.) , an island of the Outer Hebri- wards called, the Democratic Party, and defended des, Scotland (Map: Scotland, B 1). Its chief the measures of Jefferson. In 1808 he was feature is the palatial Stornowav Castle, com- elected to Congress, and although he was not in pleted in 1870. It is an important fishing sta- sympathy with the administration. President tion, exporting large quantities of fish to home Madison, in 1811, appointed hira associate jus- and Baltic ports, and has a fine harbor, covering tice of the Supreme Court of the United States. a square mile. Urban population, in 1901, 3711; "^ was then only thirty-two years of age. In of parish in 1901 12 983 1820, as a member of the Massachusetts Con- _J,„_J!,„ „ ' "'V. ' ,iTn^ Tonn » stitutional Convention, he advocated a property STORRS, Charles Backu.s (1794-1833). An , • t i, o ^ t lo.^n i • a j K^.^y.i.v K,, V. , ■ ■ , TT u basis for the Senate. In 1829 he was appointed American CongrcErational minister. He was born - j. , , -.t i i * t x i .iiniciit<.ii v^o p a , .. 1 i J professor of law at Harvard, and taught law very at Lonrrmeadow, Massachusetts, and entered ■ c ^^ s ■ t- 4. ii *• " . ^""o" ": „ ' , . . i -ii 1, in j-j successfully for sixteen vears, at the same time Princeton College, but, owing to ill health, did . ii o " r' i i. 1 rr , ; , "^T i -■ J iF 1 ill .serving on the Supreme Court bench. He was not gradua e. He stuaied theology at Andover =j ^^ ^,^^.^^.| ^^^ ^^.^^ accordinglv very and was ordained in South Carolina ,n 1821 He „'„' ,,,,^ ;„ certain sections of the country. waspastormRavenna, Ohio 1822^28, was chosen He 'resided as acting Chief Justice of the Su- professor of divinity in Western Reserve College /^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^-^ ^i^^,^ ^j^^,. ^,^^ ^j^^^^ ^j in 1828, and president, in 1S31. Marshall, and probablv onlv his attitude toward STORRS, Richard Salter (1821-1900). An the administration prevented his selection as American Congregational minister, born at the permanent Chief Justice. During his long Braintree, Mass. He graduated at Amherst Col- service on the bench he decided manv admiralty lege, 1839, and Andover Theological Seminary, and patent law cases which are authority at the 1845; was ordained pastor of the Harvard Con- present time, and he shared with Chancellor gregational Church, Brookline, Mass., the same Kent the distinction of molding American year; pastor of the Church of the Pilgrims, equity jurisprudence. He wrote the opinion in Brooklyn, N. Y., 1840, and .so remained till his the celebrated Dartmouth College case, which death. He was much sought after as an orator has been the subject of much criticism, although on special occasions and as lecturer, nnd his best- recognized as an able effort. He received the known works were composed in answer to such degree of LL.D. from Brown in 1815, from demands. But he united learning with oratorical H.arvard in 1821, and from Dartmouth in 1824. power, and his works have permanent elements. He continued his labors on the bench and in the Among them are: The Wisdom, Power, and Good- law school until his death at Camliridge in 1845. iicss of God as Manifested in the Constitution of His legal writings and decisions are still frequent- the Human Soul (the Graham Lectures, 1857) ; ]y quoted in the highest courts of the United The Conditions of Success in Preaching Without States and England. He published the foUow- Notes (1875) ; The Early American Spirit and jng legal works: Commentaries on the Law of the Genesis of It (1875) ; The Declaration of Bailments (Boston, 1832) : Commentaries on the Independence and the Effects of It (1876) ; Johti Constitution of the United States (1833) ; Con- Wyeliffe and the First English Bible (1880); flict of Lan^s (1834): Commentaries on Equity The Recognition of the Supernatural in Letters Ju7-isprudence (1835-36); and works on Bills and Life (1881); Manliness in the Scholar and Notes, Partnership, Agency, and Equity (1883) ; The Divine Origin of Christianity Indi- Pleadings, at later dates. All of his works have cated iy Its Historical Effects (1884); The gone through many editions, and are still used. Puritan Spirit (1890) ; Bernard of Clairvaux, See Life and Letters of Joseph Story, by W. W. the Times, the Man, and His Work (1892). Story (Boston, 1851). STORRS, William Lucius (1795-1861). An STORY, William Wetmore (1819-95). An American jurist, born at Middletown. Conn. He American author and sculptor. He was born at graduated at Yale College, 1814: studied law at Salem, IMass., the son of Justice Story of the Whitestown, N. Y. ; was admitted to the bar in United States Supreme Court. After studying