Storey, Moorfield, 1845-1929

Author, civil rights leader, and lawyer.

From the description of Papers of Moorfield Storey, 1876-1929. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79899439

American lawyer, author, publicist.

From the description of Letter to H.O. Houghton & Company, 1882 July 8. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53807486

Moorfield Storey received his A.B. from Harvard in 1866.

From the description of Composition : [for English?] , c. 1865. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77072892

Biographical Note

• 1845, Mar. 19: Born, Roxbury, Mass.
• 1866: A.B., Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.
• 1866 - 1867 : Attended Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass.
• 1867 - 1869 : Secretary to Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner
• 1869: A.M., Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. Admitted to Massachusetts bar
• 1870: Married Gertrude Cutts
• 1871: Entered private law practice, Boston, Mass.
• 1873 - 1879 : Editor, American Law Review
• 1877 - 1910 : Member, Board of Overseers, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. (Served 1877-1878 and 1892-1910)
• 1896: President, American Bar Association
• 1898 - 1901 : President, Massachusetts Reform Club
• 1905: Vice president, National Civil Service Reform Association President, Anti-Imperialist League
• 1909 - 1913 : President, Bar Association of the City of Boston, Mass.
• 1910 - 1929 : President, NAACP
• 1913 - 1914 : President, Massachusetts Bar Association
• 1926: Coauthored with Marcial P. Lichauco, The Conquest of the Philippines by the United States, 1898-1925. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926
• 1929, Oct. 24: Died, Lincoln, Mass.

From the guide to the Moorfield Storey Papers, 1876-1929, (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)