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Francis was born on March 27, 1832 at Boston, Massachussets, United States, the second son of David Humphreys Storer and Abby Jane (Brewer) Storer. He was a brother of Horatio Robinson Storer and a first cousin of Bellamy Storer
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Francis was born on March 27, 1832 at Boston, Massachussets, United States, the second son of David Humphreys Storer and Abby Jane (Brewer) Storer. He was a brother of Horatio Robinson Storer and a first cousin of Bellamy Storer
He received his early education in the schools of Boston, and in 1850 entered the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University. On his return he completed his chemical course, receiving the degree of B. S. from Harvard in 1855.
His zeal and proficiency in chemistry attracted the attention of Prof. Josiah Parsons Cooke, and for two years (1851 - 53) he was Cooke's assistant, at the same time teaching a private class in chemical analysis at the Harvard Medical School.
In 1853 he accepted an appointment as chemist with the United States North Pacific exploring expedition, and visited the principal islands of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
He made daily tests of the gas furnished by the company to consumers, conducted miscellaneous scientific researches upon the composition and illuminating power of coal and gas, and in addition (1857 - 65) maintained a private analytical and consulting laboratory.
With his fellow chemist, Charles William Eliot, later president of Harvard, he began in 1860 a series of publications upon "The Impurities of Commercial Zinc" and other chemical subjects.
These early chemical contributions, which included important research upon volatile hydrocarbons with Cyrus Moors Warren, were published in the Memoirs and Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in Silliman's American Journal of Science (for which Storer also wrote many abstracts and reviews upon technical chemistry) and in the Repertoire de Chimie Pure et Appliquee, of which he was American editor for a number of years.
His interest in the field of pure chemistry during this period is exemplified by the publication of his first book, First Outlines of a Dictionary of the Solubilities of Chemical Substances (1864), a reference work of great value.
In 1865 he gave up his consulting practice to accept the professorship of general and industrial chemistry at the newly organized Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Eliot was professor of analytical chemistry and metallurgy. Having no books suitable for their work of instruction, Eliot and Storer together published A Manual of Inorganic Chemistry (1867) and The Compendious Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis (1868), both of which were extensively used for a long period.
In 1867 Storer spent several months abroad in order to study the chemical exhibits at the Paris exposition and to investigate European processes of chemical industry.
Among the first acts of Eliot's administration at Harvard was the organization of the Bussey Institution, a school of agriculture and horticulture, in which Storer was appointed professor of agricultural chemistry.
In 1871 he became dean of the Institution as well and continued in these two offices until his retirement in 1907.
After his retirement at the age of seventy-five, he continued to maintain a deep interest in chemical instruction and research, though he no longer had a productive part in them. He died in 1914.
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He had genial nature of personality and friendly appreciation of the work of other contemporary American agricultural chemists.
The alliance with Eliot, which had been more closely cemented by Storer's marriage on June 21, 1871, to Eliot's sister, Catherine Atkins Eliot, continued to be of importance to his career.