California State Officials Biographies 1911

WILLIAM H. STORMS

Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton

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STATE MINERALOGIST
WILLIAM H. STORMS, who was appointed State Mineralogist by Governor Johnson on 
November 25, 1911, was born in New Jersey, April 17, 1859. In June, 1878, at the 
age of 19, he went to the Black Hills of South Dakota, and lived in that region 
for nearly nine years. It was there he gained his early mining experience. He 
came to California in January, 1887, and has been a resident of this State ever 
since. On October 1, 1892, he was appointed field assistant to William Irelan, 
Jr., then State Mineralogist, and continued through the term of J. J. Crawford, 
who succeeded Mr. Irelan as State Mineralogist. In 1900 he received a special 
appointment from Governor Henry T. Gage to make a study of the mines of the 
Mother Lode in California. The result of that work was issued by the State 
Mining Bureau as Bulletin No. 18. Mr. Storms has had the management of several 
large mines in California at various times, and has a wide knowledge of the 
mineral resources of the State. He was also editor of the mining and Scientific 
Press for over five years, has contributed largely to the technical mining 
papers of the United States, and is well known throughout the mining regions of 
the west.
 
Source: California Blue Book, or State Roster, 1911
Compiled by Frank C. Jordan, Secretary of State
Friend W. Richardson, Superintendent of State Printing, Sacramento, CA, 1913