This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: STORMS, STERM, STORM, STORME, JACKSON, THOMPSON, KERR Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Hi.2ADI/1650.1.2 Message Board Post: >From "Biographical History of Tippecanoe, White, Jasper, Newton, Benton, Warren & Pulaski Counties, Indiana", vol I&II, Lewis Publishing Company: Daniel E. Storms, one of the well known and highly esteemed members of the Tippecanoe County Bar, is a native-born son of this county, who has passed his whole life here, with the exception of the time when he was away at college, and no one is more thoroughly identified with the best interests of Lafayette than he. An ardent, hard-working Republican, he possesses many warm friends in the party and has made numerous effective, eloquent speeches during campaigns for the past six years or more. He is now chairman of the tenth district of the Indiana Republican League. In the fraternities he is a Master Mason, belongs to the Knights of Pythias and is adjutant of the Eighth Brigade, Uniformed Rank of the Knights of Pythias, and at present Grand Prelate of the Grand Lodge of Indiana. In the traditions of the Storms family is one to the effect that four brothers of the name, natives of Germany, were among the early colonists of Virginia, and that their surname was originally spelled Sterm, and later Storm, Storme and Storms. Several of their descendants were soldiers in the war of the Revolution, and others served in the War of 1812. Peter and Daniel Storms, brothers, and sons of John Storms, all natives of Virginia, went from their own state to Ohio and thence Indiana. Here they were numbered among the pioneers of Tippecanoe County, and continued to dwell here until death put an end to their busy lives. One of the sons of Peter was Abner Storms, the father of our subject. He was born in this county in 1826 and for many years was extensively engaged in farming in the vicinity mentioned, enjoying the fruits of his former toil, and respected and loved by a large circle of friends whom he has endeared to himself in the past. For a long period he was a local ! minister in the United Brethren Church. His wife, whose maiden name was Philetta Jackson, was a native of Clinton County, Indiana, and was a distant relative of Andrew Jackson. The birth of Daniel E. Storms took place on the parental homestead near Stockwell, this county, January 30, 1866. His boyhood was passed there and his elementary education was acquired in the district schools. After taking a scientific course to the sophomore year in Purdue University, he engaged in teaching for four years, meeting with gratifying success. He was principal of the seventh ward school in this city one year, and also taught in the Lafayette High School for one year. Prior to his career in this city as a teacher, however, he spent one year in the United States Military Academy at West Point, having been appointed to that honor on account of fine scholarship and general capability. After he had taught in our high school for a year he entered the Law Department of the University of Michigan, and in 1892 received the degree of Bachelor of Laws, being one of the twenty highest, in a class of over two hundred members, to whom special honors were accorded, for merit. ! Admitted to the Indiana Bar, Mr. Storms began practice in Lafayette, and for three years was a partner of Judge Davidson. He is now associated with Charles E. Thompson, the firm being Thompson & Storms, Mr. Thompson being the Prosecuting Attorney of his district. While in the Michigan University, Mr. Storms established the Alpha Zeta Chapter of the Kappa Sigma, and it has grown and flourished. His friends are legion, not only in Lafayette, but wherever he has resided, and each additional honor bestowed upon him has been worn with such dignity and conscientiousness that new friends and champions have declared for him. As a lawyer he is aggressive, painstaking and well posted on technical points, and is unhesitatingly ranked with the leading members of the local bar by those best competent to judge. In December 1897, he was elected County Attorney, and was re-elected in December, 1898, and this office he now holds. In 1891 Mr. Storms married Miss Hattie M. Kerr, of Sugar Grove. They have had three little children, one of whom is deceased, while those living are named respectively, Lillian Gladys and Donald Campbell.