STORRS, Emery Alexander, lawyer, born in Hinsdale, Cattaraugus County, New York, 12 August, 1835; died in Ottawa, Illinois, 12 September, 1885. He 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 United States courts of Utah.