Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Storrs, Prentice G 1834 - 
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Author: Portraits & Bio Sketches, 1890

PRENTICE G. STORRS, who is actively engaged in general farming and stock-
raising, paying much attention to breeding horses, stands among the most clear 
sighted, practical and business-like men of his calling in Will County. His 
farm in Troy, lying along the DuPage River, which flows through the eastern 
part of it, thus affording a never-failing supply of water for his stock, 
shows every evidence of careful cultivation and constant improvement. A native 
of New York, our subject was born near Plattsburg, Clinton County, November 
22, 1834. He remained a resident of the place of his birth till 1860, when he 
started out anew in life, Res. and Farm Property of John C.Broadie, Sec.28, 
NewLenox Tp. Will Co., Ill., coming to this State to carry on his calling on 
this fertile soil. He lived for several years on a farm in Grundy County, and 
then bought a farm in Manhattan, on which he resided until his wife's death, 
when he returned to the East for a while. He subsequently sold his place in 
Manhattan and purchased his present farm in 1882. Here he has one hundred and 
sixty acres of valuable land, all under good cultivation, and finely situated 
five miles west of Joliet. He is managing his affairs with excellent success, 
doing a general farming business and paying considerable attention to breeding 
horses, of which he has about thirty of good grade on his place. Mr. Storrs 
has been twice married. He was first wedded to Mrs. Caroline Ingram, daughter 
of Washburn Storrs, and widow of Mr. Ingram, of Plattsburg. Their married life 
was not of very long duration, her death occurring in 1857. She left two 
children, Franklin and Harriet. The former resides at home with his father, 
and the latter is the wife of Henry Willis, a milkman of Chicago. The maiden 
name of the present wife of our subject was Clara Comstock, to whom he was 
united in Plattsburg, N. Y., she being a daughter of Ezekiel Comstock, of 
Beekmantown, near Plattsburg. Two children have been born of this union, 
Raymond, and a child who died in infancy. Mr. Storrs is a fair dealing, 
straightforward man, possessing the confidence and esteem of all about him, 
and his energy, persistence and shrewdness have placed him in the possession 
of a comfortable property. In his politics he sides with the Republican party. 
Mrs. Storrs is a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890 
 


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