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convictions, and piety, and full of energy and enterprise, a
counterpart of which is seen in her worthy son.

His grandfather, Charles Storum, of Duchess County, New
York, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and did
valiant service for the independence of this Republic. He
died in 1843 at the age of one hundred years. Prof. Storum
began his school life in the public schools of his native
city. He was admired by his associates for his manly
qualities and good fellowship, and was held in high esteem
by his teachers for his studious habit and exemplary
deportment. At the age of thirteen he embraced religion and
united with the Michigan Street Baptist Church, where both
his parents were useful and active members.

He frequently heard his parents express their purpose to
send him to college, and as he grew older and better able to
appreciate the value of education, the desire grew very
strong within him to fit himself for a larger field of
usefulness. In due time he entered Oberlin College, and
after spending eighteen months in the preparatory department
he entered the college proper, and graduated with the class
of 1870.

Immediately after his graduation, Prof. Storum came to the
city of Washington to teach in Wayland Seminary, one of the
schools fostered by the Baptist Home Mission Society. He
taught at Wayland thirteen years. Here, as in every walk in
life, he exerted a most wholesome influence over the young
men and women attending the seminary, whose graduates are
found in all parts of this country. They delight to speak of
the inspiration and high incentive they received from Prof.
Storum while under his instruction.

After leaving Wayland, Prof. Storum taught in the public
schools of Washington one year, whence he was called to the
city of Petersburg, Virginia, to organize the Virginia
Normal and Collegiate Institute, provided for by the
Legislature of the "Old Dominion." He remained here three
years and endeared himself to the pupils of the new school
and to the citizens of Petersburg, irrespective of race,
political bias or denominational creeds. He then returned to
Washington and from that time until the present he has been
teaching in the public high school.

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