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The New International Encyclopædia/Storey, Moorfield

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STO′REY, Moorfield (1845—). An American lawyer, born in Roxbury, Mass. He graduated at Harvard in 1866, studied at the Harvard Law School, and in 1869 was admitted to the bar. In 1867-69 he was private secretary to Senator Charles Sumner, and in the latter year began the practice of his profession in Boston. An Independent in polities, he was prominent in the ‘Mugwump’ movement of 1884, and after the Spanish War became an ardent Anti-Imperialist and was defeated for Congress in 1900. He published the Life of Charles Sumner (1900) in “American Statesmen Series.”