years later he went to La Porte, Ind., and had there his first experience in publishing a newspaper, which was unsuccessful. He kept a drug-store for some time, and edited a country weekly, and, growing tired of Indiana, went to Jackson, Mich., and studied law for two years. He next established the “Patriot” in that town, of which he was appointed postmaster under Polk's administration, whereupon he sold the paper. Having been removed by Taylor in 1849, he set up another drug-store, was chosen the year following a member of the State constitutional convention, and subsequently appointed state-prison inspector. In 1853 he removed to Detroit, bought an interest in the “Free Press,” and ere long rose to be its editor and sole owner. He went to Chicago in 1861 and purchased the “Times,” which then had a very small circulation. His energy, enterprise, and fearless expression of his views on every subject gave the paper notoriety. No man in the northwest has done so much as he both to benefit and injure journalism. Without faith in any one, as a consequence no one placed faith in him. He was independent in an extreme and unwholesome sense, boasting that he had no friends and wanted none, and apparently doing his utmost to create enemies. His whole mind was bent on giving the news, his idea of what constitutes news being frequently morbid and indecorous. He was daring to a degree of recklessness and repellent cynicism, but his course yielded him a large fortune. About 1877 his health began to fail, and he went abroad. In the summer of 1878 he had a paralytic stroke, and was brought home. He was adjudged of unsound mind in 1884, and a conservator of his estate was appointed by the courts.
STORK, Charles Augustus Gottlieb, clergyman,
b. in Helmstädt, duchy of Brunswick,
Germany, 16 June, 1764; d. in Salisbury, N. C., 27
March, 1831. The family name was originally
Storch. He received his classical and theological
education in the University of Helmstädt, in 1785
became a private tutor, and in 1788 accepted a call
as pastor and missionary among Lutherans in
North Carolina. He was examined and ordained
to the ministry, and arrived in Baltimore, Md., in
June. Immediately after his arrival he took
charge of congregations in Cabarrus county, N. C.,
where he remained until he retired from the active
duties of the ministry. He was the leader of various
enterprises of the church. When, on 2 May,
1803, the synod of North Carolina was organized,
he was elected the first president, and he was annually
re-elected whenever he could be present. During
the latter part of his life he removed to a
farm ten miles south of Salisbury, where he spent
the remainder of his days. He was a man of learning
and piety, and had the reputation of being a superior
linguist. See “The Stork Family in the Lutheran
Church,” by John G. Morris, D. D. (Philadelphia,
1886). — His son, Theophilus, clergyman, b. near
Salisbury, N. C., in August, 1814; d. in Philadelphia,
Pa., 28 March, 1874, was graduated at
Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg, in 1835, and at the
theological seminary there in 1837. In the same
year he was licensed to preach by the synod of
Maryland, and assumed pastoral charge of the
Lutheran congregation at Winchester, Va., where he
remained until 1841. In the latter year he
removed to Philadelphia as pastor of St. Matthew's
congregation, the second English Lutheran
congregation in the city. In 1842 he was one of the
leaders in the movement that resulted in the
organization of the East Pennsylvania synod. In
1850 he resigned as pastor of St. Matthew's con-
gregation and organized St. Mark's congregation,
building a new church. In 1858 he accepted the
presidency of Newberry college, S. C., but in 1860
he removed to Baltimore, Md., as pastor of a new
congregation. Here he remained until 1865, when
he retired on account of failing health. For the
next few years, until 1871, he was engaged in
pastoral and editorial duties in Philadelphia, as well
as in literary pursuits. In 1851 he received the
decree of D. D. from Pennsylvania college. He
was at various times editor of the “Home Journal”
and “Lutheran Home Monthly,” and assistant
editor for several years of the “Lutheran
Observer.” Among his published works are “Life of
Martin Luther and the Reformation in Germany,”
edited with introduction (Philadelphia, 1854):
“The Children of the New Testament” (1854);
“Luther's Christmas-Tree” (1855); “Jesus in the
Temple, or the Model of Youth” (1856); “Home
Seenes in the New Testament” (1857); “Luther at
Home” (1871); “The Unseen World in the Light
of the Cross” (1871); “Luther and the Bible”
(1873); “Afternoon” (1874); and “Sermons,” edited
by his sons (1876). — Theophilus's son, Charles
Augustus, clergyman, b. near Jefferson, Frederick
co., Md., 4 Sept., 1838; d. in Philadelphia, Pa.,
17 Dec., 1883, was graduated at Williams in 1857,
where his room-mate was James A. Garfield, studied
at Andover theological seminary, and was professor
of Greek in Newberry college, S. C., in 1859-'60.
In 1861 he was ordained to the ministry. He was
pastor of St. James's Lutheran congregation in
Philadelphia for a few months in 1861, of St.
Mark's congregation in Baltimore, Md., 1862-'81,
and professor of theology in Gettysburg seminary,
and chairman of the faculty from 1881 until his
death. In 1874 he received the degree of D. D.
from Pennsylvania college. He published numerous
articles in periodicals, and was for a time co-editor
of the “Lutheran Missionary Journal” and the
“Lutheran Observer” in Philadelphia. Some of
his fugitive writings have been collected in a
posthumous work entitled “Light on the Pilgrim's
Way,” edited by his brother, Theophilus B. Stork
(Philadelphia, 1885).
STORKS. Emery Alexander, lawyer, b. in Hinsdale, Cattaraugus co., N. Y., 12 Aug., 1835; d. in Ottawa, Ill., 12" Sept., 1885. lie first studied
law with his father, and then went to Buffalo, where he pursued his legal course, and in 1853 was admitted to the bar. In 1857 he went to New
York, remaining there for two years. He then settled in Chicago, and soon took a prominent place among the lawyers of the country. As an orator
he had few superiors. Politically a Republican, he devoted his great talents to that party, taking an active part in the presidential campaigns
of the last twenty years. In 1868, 1872, and 1880 he was a delegate-at-large from Illinois to the National Republican convention, being on each
occasion one of the foremost in shaping the policy and formulating the platform of his party. His friends urged his appointment as attorney-
general under the administrations of Hayes and Arthur, but without success. A few months before his death he accepted a large retainer to defend the
Mormons in the U. S. courts of Utah.
STORRS, Henry Randolph, b. in Middletown, Conn., 3 Sept., 1787; d. in New Haven, Conn., 29 July, 1837. He was graduated at Yale in 1804, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1807, and practised at Champion, Wbitestone, and Utica, N. Y., serving for five years as judge in Oneida county. He was elected to congress n> a 1-Vdendist from Utica, and served with re-elections from 6
