Lucius Seymour Storrs was born in Buffalo New York on January 4, 1869, the son of Origen and Janet Rankin Storrs. He attended the University of Nebraska where he graduated in 1890 with a Bachelor of Science degree. Storrs returned to the UN to complete his graduate work later in life, earning a doctorate in engineering in 1927. From 1890 to 1894, he worked as an assistant geologist for the Colorado Fuel Company and was a geologist for the Northern Pacific Railroad and a special writer for the U.S. Geological Survey from 1896-1906. He returned east after his work surveying the western coalfields where he engaged in a number of businesses, and after his retirement worked as the chairman for the committee on the national defense of the American Electric Railway Association. Storrs married Mary L. Cooper on June 26, 1894, and the couple had at least one child, a daughter Margaret Storrs Grierson, the donor of this collection. Lucius Storrs died in Northampton, Massachusetts on July 4, 1945.
Contributor: Kerry Szymanski (49782268)
Contributor: Kerry Szymanski (49782268)
Lucius Seymour Storrs was born in Buffalo New York on January 4, 1869, the son of Origen and Janet Rankin Storrs. He attended the University of Nebraska where he graduated in 1890 with a Bachelor of Science degree. Storrs returned to the UN to complete his graduate work later in life, earning a doctorate in engineering in 1927. From 1890 to 1894, he worked as an assistant geologist for the Colorado Fuel Company and was a geologist for the Northern Pacific Railroad and a special writer for the U.S. Geological Survey from 1896-1906. He returned east after his work surveying the western coalfields where he engaged in a number of businesses, and after his retirement worked as the chairman for the committee on the national defense of the American Electric Railway Association. Storrs married Mary L. Cooper on June 26, 1894, and the couple had at least one child, a daughter Margaret Storrs Grierson, the donor of this collection. Lucius Storrs died in Northampton, Massachusetts on July 4, 1945.
Contributor: Kerry Szymanski (49782268)
Contributor: Kerry Szymanski (49782268)
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