Santa Cruz County Biographies

W. D. STOREY

Submitted by Kathy Sedler

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        Is one of the prominent lawyers of Santa Cruz. He was born in Yorkshire, 
England, in 1830, and came to America when only one year old. He lived in the 
Eastern States until 1875, when he came to California. He came to Santa Cruz in 
1876, and has lived here ever since.
        In 1857 Mr. Storey graduated at the head of his class from Lawrence 
University (Wisconsin). He then entered Albany (New York) Law School, and in 
1860 graduated from that institution. Among his classmates at Albany were W. F. 
Vilos, U. S. Postmaster-General under President Cleveland's administration, and 
Redfield Proctor, Secretary of War under Benjamin Harrison.
        Mr. Storey worked his way through college by teaching school and doing 
farm work. In the year of his graduation from Albany he was admitted to the bar, 
and has practiced law continuously ever since, with the exception of seven years 
spent in the editorial profession. For three years he was editor in chief of the 
editorial staff of the Rochester Democrat, the leading Republican journal of 
Western New York. He also wrote leading editorials for papers in Minneapolis, 
Memphis, New York, and other cities while engaged in the practice of law.
        In 1879 Mr. Storey was elected district attorney of Santa Cruz County, 
and held that office three years. He has held the office of city attorney in 
Santa Cruz under three municipal administrations, and at the present writing is 
city attorney, deputy, district attorney, and court commissioner.
        Judge Storey took an active part in advocacy of the new constitution of 
the State of California in 1879, and has always been in the front rank of the 
supporters of public improvements, notably the city electric light and water 
systems. He now occasionally contributes to the public press, and his writings 
claim the respectful attention of his fellow-townsmen. His literary style is 
plain, straightforward English, lacking figurative ornamentation, but 
characterized by clear-cut logic.
        Mr. Storey was married, in 1877, to Mrs. Eliza Josephine Doke.
 
HISTORY OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.-  E. S. Harrison, 
Pacific Press Publ. Co., San Francisco, 1891