CHARLES STORER STORROW. 769 



The Roman senate went out to do him honor, Livy tells us, because, 

 though he had lost all ehe, he had not despaired of the republic. 



Thomas AVentwortii Higginson. 



CHARLES STOKER STORROW. 



Charles S. Storrow was my friend, and the friend of three genera- 

 tions of men with whom he was associated, inspiring them with the 

 spirit of gentleness, truthfulness, honorable dealing, thoroughness, and 

 a careful consideration of all sides of a subject that justice might be 

 reached. 



Of Massachusetts parentage, he was born March 25, 1809, during 

 the temporary residence of his parents in Montreal. When he was 

 about two years of age they returned to their former home in Boston, 

 where he received his early education until 1818, when his father, 

 Thomas AYentworth Storrow, having established himself in business in 

 Paris, France, took his family there for permanent residence. There he 

 attended private school until 1824, when he returned to America to 

 prepare for Harvard College, where he was graduated first in his class 

 in 1829. 



Having determined to adopt the profession of civil engineering, and 

 finding no school in this country where he could obtain the necessary 

 education, he studied for some months in the library of the eminent 

 engineer Loammi Baldwin, but in December he returned to France, and 

 by the influence of General Lafayette, who was a close friend of his 

 father's family, he got permission to take the course in the Eeole des 

 Fonts et Chaussees at Paris. Here he remained two years, taking the 

 course, and also made a study of the important engineering works then 

 in progress in and about Paris, and, before returning to America, made 

 a tour for more than two months throughout Great Britain, mainly to 

 study various works interesting to his profession, including the Liverpool 

 and ^lauchester Railway, then recently completed by Stephenson. 



Returning to Boston in April, 1832, he entered the engineering staff 

 of the Boston and Lowell Railroad, of which Mr. James F. Baldwin 

 was chief engineer. Constructive work was then beginning, and ]Mr. 

 Storrow served in the engineer corps until the road was completed. 

 When entering upon this work he was the only one engaged who hud 

 seen a locomotive. 



On May 27, 1835, under his direction, the first train, drawn by the 

 locomotive •• Stephenson," carried a party of the leading stockholders 



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