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BIOGRAPHICAL AND PORTRAIT CYCLOPEDIA

agent for that company at Conemaugh, and continued as such until 1879, when he became connected with the Johnstown Tribune, which relation still exists; simultaneously with the employment in the Tribune, he entered the law office of Col. John P. Linton, under whose preceptorship he studied and was admitted to the Cambria county bar in 1881, and since then has successfully practiced his profession at that bar.     Mr. Storey is a republican, and was elected a delegate from the Twentieth Congressional District to the Minneapolis convention of 1892, which re-nominated Benjamin Harrison for president. When twenty-two years of age he was elected burgess of East Conemaugh borough, and was re-elected for three successive terms thereafter; and after coming to Johnstown was elected burgess in 1883, and re-elected in 1884, '85, '86 and '87.     Mr. Storey's family belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church, and he is a Past Master of Johnstown Lodge, No. 538, Free and Accepted Masons, and a member of Portage Chapter, No. 195, Royal Arch Masons, and a trustee of the Johnstown Savings Bank.     Mr. Storey and Abbie Doty Douglass, born May 5, 1853, were married in Johnstown October 12, 1875, and have four children: Mary Douglass, Percy, Henry Wilson, Jr., and Douglass Doty Storey.     William Sloan Storey and Rebecca Ellen Dixon were married in Blairsville, June 6, 1850. Samuel Douglass and Abbie Doty, the parents of Mrs. Storey, were married at the Doty homestead, near Blacklick, August 18, 1836. The genealogical record of their ancestors is as follows:     William Sloan Storey (father) was born July 20, 18221, and died August 4, 1882, at Johnstown, and is interred in Blairsville cem-

etery. He was the fifth child of Joseph Storey and Catherine Kiser, who were married July 7, 1807, and had six children, as follows: Rebecca, intermarried with Ebenezer Smith; John; Susannah; Mary, intermarried with William Henderson; William Sloan, father, and Joseph Storey, of Altoona.     Joseph Storey, grandfather, was of English ancestry, born in Massachusetts in 1783, moved to New Jersey, whence he came to Westmoreland county about 1800. His brothers and sisters were: Nancy, Rebecca, intermarried with Jacob Walters; John, Charles, William; a sister, who married a Mr. Churn, and another sister, who married a Mr. Lattimer, all of whom resided near Latrobe, in Westmoreland county.     Catherine Kiser (grandmother) was of German ancestry, and was born August 12, 1785, and died at New Derry, Westmoreland county, September, 1866. She came from Frederick city, Maryland. Her brothers and sisters were: Isaac Kiser, Adam, William, Jacob, Joseph, John; Sarah, intermarried with Jacob Sidler, of Dane county, Wisconsin; Mary, intermarried with Samuel Sloan, of near Blairsville, and Susan Kiser.     John Kiser (great-grandfather) and Susan Ieis (great-grandmother) originally came from Hagerstown, Maryland, and about 1793 located on a farm, now known as the Kiser farm, near Latrobe, Westmoreland county, and resided there until 1810, when they moved to a farm near Congress, Wayne Co., Ohio, and where they permanently located where they died.     Rebecca Ellen Dixon Storey (mother) is of Scotch-Irish lineage, born July 10, 1827, was the third child of Thomas Dixon (grandfather), and Jane Wilson, nee Barclay (grandmother).     Thomas Dixon (grandfather) was born in 1795 and died in 1848. He and Jane Barclay

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