Notes for David Humphreys Storer

Notes for David Humphreys Storer

1880 census of Boston, MA, age 76, a physician, with wife Abby ("L." in the transcription; probably "J."), age 69, daughter Abby N., age 44, daughter Mary G., age 42, son Robert M., age 39, and a large household staff.

!The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans - Volume X: David Humphreys Storer, educator and author, was born in Portland, Maine, March 26, 1804. Son of Woodbury Storer (Chief-Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Portland, Maine) and Margaret (Boyd) Storer, and Grandson of John Langdon, statesman (q.v.). He was graduated from Bowdoin, where he got his AB - 1822 and AM - 1825, and from Harvard where he got his MD - 1825. He was married, April 30, 1829, to Abby, daughter of Thomas Brewer and Abigail (Stone) Brewer of Boston, Mass., and a descendant of Governor Dudley (q.v.) of Massachusetts Bay colony. He began practice in Boston, where in 1837 he founded the Tremont Street Medical School, in which he was instructor For 1838-1854 in midwifery, diseases of women and children, and medical jurisprudence; he was at the head of the department of Ichthyology and Hrpetology, under the auspices of the Massachusetts State survey in 1837, and served as physician to the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1849-58. He was Dean of the Harvard Medical school from 1855-64, and Professor of Obstetrics and Medical Jurisprudence from 1854-68. He was associated with Prof. Louis Agassiz in natural history research. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Bowdoin college in 1876; was President of the American Medical Association in 1866; Vice-President of the Boston Natural History society; a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; a member of the American Philosophical Society, and of various medical societies. He is the author of: Report on the Ichthyology and Herpetology of Massachusetts (1839); Synopsis of the Fishes of North America (1846), and History of the Fishes of Massachusetts (1853-67). He died in Boston, Mass., Sept. 10, 1891.