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Below is a family biography included in The History of White County, Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1887.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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W. F. Story, of Story Bros., lawyers, was born in Fentress County, December 20, 1846, the son of Noah W. and Catherine (Woolsey) Story, both of English ancestry. The paternal ancestors came over with William Penn, one of whom, Thomas Story, assisted in the colonization of Pennsylvania. The father, born in North Carolina, died in White County, Tenn., March 30, 1879. The mother, a native of Fentress County, died in White County, August 15, 1885. The father came from Fentress County to White County in 1865. He was a farmer and a member of the same church as his wife, the United Baptist Church. After completing a liberal education, our subject taught school for two years, and in 1872 he began the study of law under Col. Calms, of Sparta, with whom he became partner, after he had the same year secured a license to practice. In 1873 he established a firm of his own, since which time he has been practicing. In 1885 Gov. Bates appointed him to the newly created office of White County judge, to which he was elected in 1886. For the last twenty-seven years he has been associated with his younger brother, Ephraim, in their present very successful firm. April 3, 1878, our subject married Hattie E. Cole, a cultivated lady born at Elkhart, Ind., in 1847. Of their four children a son and daughter are living. He is a sound Democrat and he and his wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

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This family biography is one of 38 biographies included in The History of White County, Tennessee published in 1887.  The History of White County was included within The History of Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Warren & White Counties of Tennessee. For the complete description, click here: History of Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Warren, White Counties of Tennessee

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