California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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CHARLES A. STOREY.  Was born July 1, 1828, in London, England, and was educated in Liverpool. At the 
age of nineteen, he with his parents moved to Jamaica, West India Islands, and engaged in the 
manufacture of sugar, and continued in this business until December, 1852, when the subject of our 
sketch sailed for New York, where he sojourned a short time. He then started for Portland, Oregon, in 
the bark "American," Captain Kirby, via Cape Horn, and, after a passage of six months, arrived at his 
destination September 27, 1853, where he resided eighteen months, during which time he was 
engaged in farming. We next find Mr. Storey in San Francisco, in the employ of George O. Whitney & 
Co., furniture dealers, a situation he held for over one year. He then spent the following four years in 
the Sacramento office of Wells, Fargo & Co., during which time the great and memorable flood of 
1861-2 occurred, inundating the whole city to the depth of from four to twenty feet He then moved to 
Gold Hill, Nevada, and engaged in the grocery business, in which he continued for five years, when he 
returned to San Francisco and was again employed by Wells, Fargo & Co. in the home office, a position 
he held for the next four years. September 1, 1872, he moved to Napa County. In the early part of 
1873, he paid a visit to his native land, sojourning there for a few months, returning to St Helena in the 
fall, when he purchased his present property, consisting of twenty-two acres of land located inside of 
the city limits, devoting his time and study to the cultivation of hops, in which he is extensively 
engaged and in which he takes no little pride, having obtained a diploma and medal at the Centennial 
Fair held in 1876 for sample of choice hops. He is engaged also in viniculture. Mr. Storey was married in 
San Francisco March 27, 1858, to Miss Emma E. Cooke, a native of New York State, by which union they 
have had two children, one of which is deceased: Charles A. born April 4, 1859, and Lulu, born 
September 22, 1860, died January, 1862.