Mr. Storm enjoyed the advantage of excellent ancestral antecedents – an advantage which no doubt it is often difficult exactly to estimate. Certainly the inheritance of a disposition of mind and heart, which provide a solid foundation for the development of capacity and character, is beyond price: the richest legacy from parent to child. The son of Edward Storm and Helen, daughter of George and Sophia Wilkinson, and the grandson of John A. and Catherine Storm, the subject of this sketch descended from ancestor was Dirck Storm, a native of Utrecht, Holland, who strong American strains on both the paternal and maternal sides. His first American ancestor was Dirck Storm, a native of Utrecht, Holland, who emigrated from Holland to the New Netherlands during the early butch period. Mr. Storm's father was a member of the Holland Society of the City of New York. On the maternal side his ancestors were long seated in New England, and came originally from England.

George Wilkinson Storm was born in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N. Y., in July, 1856. He attended St. Mark's School at Southboro, Mass., and completed his education at Harvard College. Having determined upon a business career, he engaged in the manufacture of elevators and thoroughly learned the business. Having original ideas of his own, and having acquired patent rights, he engaged in manufacture on his own account in 1889. His business has continually developed and extended to the present time. The Storm elevator has become a well known standard make. Since 1889 the factory has been in Newark, N. J., while for nine years from that date Mr. Storm resided at Hackensack. He now resides in Orange.