BIOGRAPHY: Henry Wilson STOREY, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 423-6
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HENRY WILSON STOREY, a lawyer of Johnstown, is the only child of William Sloan 
and Rebecca Ellen (Dixon) Storey, and was born March 31, 1851, in Blairsville, 
Indiana county, Pennsylvania. He resided in Conemaugh from 1860 until 1879, and 
since then in Johnstown. In 1864 he was a messenger in the telegraph office of 
the Pennsylvania railroad, and in 1866 he was employed as an operator; in 1872 
he was appointed agent for that company at Conemaugh, and continued as such 
until 1879, when he became connected with the Johnstown Tribune, which relation 
still exists; simultaneously with the employment in the Tribune, he entered the 
law office of Col. John P. Linton, under whose preceptorship he studied and was 
admitted to the Cambria county bar in 1881, and since then has successfully 
practiced his profession at that bar.
     Mr. Storey is a republican, and was elected a delegate from the Twentieth 
Congressional District to the Minneapolis convention of 1892, which re-nominated 
Benjamin Harrison for president. When twenty-two years of age he was elected 
burgess of East Conemaugh borough, and was re-elected for three successive terms 
thereafter; and after coming to Johnstown was elected burgess in 1883, and re-
elected in 1884, '85, '86 and '87.
     Mr. Storey's family belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church, and he is a 
Past Master of Johnstown Lodge, No. 538, Free and Accepted Masons, and a member 
of Portage Chapter, No. 195, Royal Arch Masons, and a trustee of the Johnstown 
Savings Bank.
     Mr. Storey and Abbie Doty Douglass, born May 5, 1853, were married in 
Johnstown October 12, 1875, and have four children: Mary Douglass, Percy, Henry 
Wilson, Jr., and Douglass Doty Storey.
     William Sloan Storey and Rebecca Ellen Dixon were married in Blairsville, 
June 6, 1850. Samuel Douglass and Abbie Doty, the parents of Mrs. Storey, were 
married at the Doty homestead, near Blacklick, August 18, 1836. The genealogical 
record of their ancestors is as follows:
     William Sloan Storey (father) was born July 20, 1821, and died August 4, 
1882, at Johnstown, and is interred in Blairsville cemetery. He was the fifth 
child of Joseph Storey and Catherine Kiser, who were married July 7, 1807, and 
had six children, as follows: Rebecca, intermarried with Ebenezer Smith; John; 
Susannah; Mary, intermarried with William Henderson; William Sloan, father, and 
Joseph Storey, of Altoona.
     Joseph Storey, grandfather, was of English ancestry, born in Massachusetts 
in 1783, moved to New Jersey, whence he came to Westmoreland county about 1800. 
His brothers and sisters were: Nancy, Rebecca, intermarried with Jacob Walters; 
John, Charles, William; a sister, who married a Mr. Churn, and another sister, 
who married a Mr. Lattimer, all of whom resided near Latrobe, in Westmoreland 
county.
     Catherine Kiser (grandmother) was of German ancestry, and was born August 
12, 1785, and died at New Derry, Westmoreland county, September, 1866. She came 
from Frederick city, Maryland. Her brothers and sisters were: Isaac Kiser, Adam, 
William, Jacob, Joseph, John; Sarah, intermarried with Jacob Sidler, of Dane 
county, Wisconsin; Mary, intermarried with Samuel Sloan, of near Blairsville, 
and Susan Kiser.
     John Kiser (great-grandfather) and Susan Ieis (great-grandmother) 
originally came from Hagerstown, Maryland, and about 1793 located on a farm, now 
known as the Kiser farm, near Latrobe, Westmoreland county, and resided there 
until 1810, when they moved to a farm near Congress, Wayne Co., Ohio, and where 
they permanently located where they died.
     Rebecca Ellen Dixon Storey (mother) is of Scotch-Irish lineage, born July 
10, 1827, was the third child of Thomas Dixon (grandfather), and Jane Wilson, 
nee Barclay (grandmother).
     Thomas Dixon (grandfather) was born in 1795 and died in 1848. He and Jane 
Barclay Wilson were married October 25, 1821, and had seven children: Margaret 
C., intermarried with James Wilhelm; Jane, intermarried with Levi Young; Rebecca 
Ellen (mother); Nancy, intermarried with John A. Stitt; Sarah, intermarried with 
James L. Shields; Thomas Wallace, and David Lewis Dixon.
     David Dixon (great-grandfather) had two sons and four daughters: Thomas 
(grandfather), David, Nancy, intermarried with a Mr. Crothers, of Westmoreland 
county; Esther, Peggy and Jennie Dixon, single.
     Jane Barclay Dixon (grandmother) was of Scotch-Irish lineage, and was born 
May 12, 1797, and died September 17, 1868, in Blairsville. She was the elder 
daughter of Alexander Barclay and Annie Martin. Jane Barclay married James 
Wilson about 1817, and he died the following year, leaving one son, James 
Wilson, who was one of the “forty-niners,” and who married Harriet Jenks, of 
Roscoe, Illinois, and they had one son, named Earnest Wilson, who resides at 
that place.
     Alexander Barclay (great-grandfather) was of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and 
married Annie Martin, of Ireland, in 1796, at the house of her sister, who was 
Mrs. David Porter, in the city of Philadelphia, and about 1804 located on a farm 
in Indiana county. They had five children: Jane (grandmother), John, James, 
Alexander and Nancy, intermarried with John McFarland.
     Samuel Douglass (father of Mrs. Storey) was of Scottish ancestry, and was 
born November 5, 1809, and died May 23, 1881. Abbie Doty (her mother) was born 
January 29, 1818, and died March 6, 1877. They were married August 18, 1836, and 
had ten children: Gillis, Jane, John Wallace, William Murray, Ambrose, Susan 
Johnson, Mary Elizabeth, Abbie Doty, Samuel Milton and Robert Henry Douglass.
     John Douglass (grandfather) was born February 5, 1787, and died July, 1859. 
On October 20, 1808, he married Jane Gallagher, who was born July 20, 1788, and 
died August 15, 1839. They had ten children: Samuel, James, Nancy Wallace, 
intermarried with Robert Elder, of Elder's Ridge; William, John, Robert, Lydia 
Jane, intermarried with a Mr. Samuel Parker; Pelham Woodroe, Wallace and Adams 
Douglass.
     Samuel Douglass (great-grandfather) was of Scottish ancestry, and was one 
of the earliest settlers in Indiana county, locating near what is known as 
Newport, where he married Lydia Adams, who was from the eastern part of the 
State.
     Jane Gallagher (grandmother) was a daughter of James Gallagher, of 
Livermore, who married Nancy Wallace; they were the great-grandparents of Mrs. 
Storey.
     Abbie Doty Douglass (mother) was the elder child of Gillis Doty and Jane 
Dixon Doty, and was born January 29, 1818, and died March 6, 1877. She resided 
in Johnstown after her marriage and died there, and she and her husband were 
interred in the Grand View cemetery.
     Gillis Doty (grandfather) was born in 1799, and died in 1870. He was a 
farmer, and married Jane Dixon (grandmother) in 1817, and located on the Dixon-
Doty farm, near the Blacklick. They had eleven children: Abbie, Nancy, 
intermarried with Henry Harrold, of Moline, Illinois; Samuel, Jonathan, mary, 
intermarried with Dr. James Hanson Bell; Robert, Elizabeth, intermarried with 
Joseph H. Campbell (a grandson of Charles Campbell, who was a general in the 
provincial troops, and county lieutenant of Westmoreland county in 1778, and the 
Charles Campbell who took out the warrant for two hundred and forty-nine acres 
of land, on which the principal part of Johnstown is now located, on April 3, 
1769; he was also one of the first associate judges of Indiana county in 1805); 
Margaret, Jane, Rebecca, intermarried with James Falls; Sarah A., intermarried 
with Hugh Flinn, and Gillis McPherson Doty, who resides on the homestead. Gillis 
Doty (grandfather) was a son of Jonathan Doty.
     Jonathan Doty (great-grandfather) was born in 1756, and died in 1855. He 
was a farmer by vocation, and married Abigail McPherson (great-grandmother), and 
had three sons: Nathaniel, Gillis and Robert. His second wife was Nancy Simpson 
Dixon, but they had no children. Jonathan Doty came from Basking Ridge, New 
Jersey, and located on a farm near Millwood, Westmoreland county, within a few 
years after the close of the Revolutionary War, in which he had enlisted for a 
period of three years, and served as a private in Captain Silas Burbank's 
company, in the Twelfth Massachusetts infantry of the Continental troops, which 
was known as among the Massachusetts Bay forces. The officers were Col. Samuel 
Brewer, Lieut.-Col. Ebenezer Sprout, Maj. M. Knapp, Lieut. Samuel Miller, and 
Ensign Joshua Nason. He was a lineal descendant of Edward Doty, one of the 
Pilgrims known as number "forty" of the signers of the Mayflower compact, and 
disembarked at Plymouth Rock in 1620. Edward Doty married Faith Clark, who was 
probably his second wife, and they had nine children, who located at Basking 
Ridge, New Jersey, Long Island, New York, and elsewhere. He was a man of strong 
decision of character, and was a party to the first duel fought in New England; 
he lived at Dartmouth for a while, but moved to Yarmouth, where he died August 
23, 1655.
     Jane Dixon Doty (grandmother) born May 16, 1798, died August 30, 1884, on 
the farm where she was born. She and her husband were interred in Blairsville. 
She was a daughter of Samuel and Nancy Simpson Dixon.
     Samuel Dixon (great-grandfather) came from Ireland and took out a warrant 
for the Dixon-Doty farm, and located there as early as 1771, and married Nancy 
Simpson (great-grandmother). He was a near neighbor of Randall Laughlin, 
probably the first settler in Indiana county; as his wife Mrs. Randall Laughlin 
was the first white woman to cross the Blacklick to live there, and Nancy 
Simpson (great-grandmother) was the second white woman to locate in that 
vicinity, so early that one of her sons was carried away by the Indians, and was 
never heard from. Samuel Dixon (great-grandfather) was captured by the French 
and some Indians near Fort Wallace, Westmoreland county, a short distance south 
of Blairsville, in 1778, with Randall Laughlin, Charles Campbell and John 
Gibson, who were taken to Montreal and Quebec, and afterwards exchanged.