Storrs, Henry R. (1828-1910)

STORRS

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/28/2007 at 22:18:44

Henry R. Storrs
Feb 3, 1828 - July 9, 1910

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.85, Center Twp.)
H. R. Storrs, farmer, P. O. Carson, was born in Trenton, Oneida Co., N. Y., February 3, 1828. He is the son of Calvin and May G. (Wells) Storrs. His father was a farmer, born in the same place as our subject, and moved to Wisconsin, arriving in Milwaukee October 27, 1847; he died in Chippewa County, Wis., in 1868. The mother of our subject was born in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Conn., and died in Wisconsin at the age of about eighty-three. Our subject received a common-school education, and afterward attended two terms at the high school. He worked at his grandfather's cheese factory until he was eighteen years of age. He then began to learn the carpenter's trade, to which he apprenticed for three years. He then went to Wisconsin with his father, where he engaged in farming. He lost his health by running a "thrasher," after which he went South and worked at his trade. He was at St. Louis, and was also an overseer on a plantation in Kentucky, and acted also in the same capacity in Missouri. After three years, during which time he regained his health, he came to Illinois, stopping in Lee County, and was married at Dixon, the county seat of that county, January 11, 1855, to Mary E. Putnam, born in Jefferson, Coos Co., N. H., March 5, 1835. She is the daughter of George and Elizabeth (Perkins) Putnam. Our subject farmed in Lee County, Ill., for six years, when he moved to Chippewa County, Wis., living here five years. He then returned to Dixon, Ill., where he lived another six years. In October, 1872, he came to this county, locating in Center Township, purchasing his present place, which consists of 240 acres in Sections 26 and 33, Township 75, Range 39. He engages in general farming, besides buying and selling largely in stock. Mr. and Mrs. Storrs have eight children living - Harriet A., Albert L., George A., Clara B., William R., Nellie L., Florence M. and Mabel F. The parents and the five oldest children are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics, Mr. Storrs is a Republican.