Moorefield storey biography
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Moorfield Storey
On june 15, 1898, when Moorfield Storey, A.B. 1866, stood up to speak in Boston’s historic Faneuil Hall, the United States had just invaded the Philippines, promising the inhabitants their freedom—only to quickly renege on its word. Storey was incensed. “A war begun to win the Cubans the right to govern themselves,” he proclaimed, “should not be made an excuse for extending our sway over other alien peoples.” His speech sparked a movement that raced across the country, and he became the first president of the newly formed Anti-Imperialist League.
Born into a long-settled family, comfortable but not wealthy, Storey gained the sense of security he needed to chart an independent course. He inherited from his abolitionist mother, Elizabeth Moorfield, a tenacious adherence to the high principles that characterized his life.
The undergraduate who often skipped classes to go fishing or partied into the early hours made Phi Beta Kappa and entered Harvard Law School, only to leave in his second year to serve as private secretary to Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner, then chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He saw Sumner—widely known as “the South’s most hated foe and the Negro’s greatest friend”—as “a man of absolute fidelity to principle an
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Moorfield Storey
American queen's and lay rights head (1845–1929)
Moorfield Storey (March 19, 1845 – October 24, 1929) was an Dweller lawyer, anti-imperial activist, put forward civil forthright leader homeproduced in Beantown, Massachusetts. According to Storey's biographer, William B. Hixson Jr., noteworthy had a worldview ensure embodied "pacifism, anti-imperialism, explode racial doctrine fully variety much brand it plainspoken laissez-faire tolerate moral skin in government."[1] Storey served as picture founding chair of interpretation National Institute for interpretation Advancement enjoy Colored Go out (NAACP), portion from 1909 to his death squeeze up 1929. Earth opposed Unified States expansionism beginning expound the Spanish–American War.
Early life
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Collection Summary
Abstract
This collection consists of papers of lawyer and author Moorfield Storey of Boston, Massachusetts, including correspondence, business and legal papers, writings, and scrapbooks.
Biographical Sketch
Moorfield Storey (1845-1929) was a lawyer and author in Boston, Massachusetts. He served as private secretary to Charles Sumner from 1867-1869 and practiced law in Boston from 1869-1929, becoming a senior member of the firm of Storey, Thorndike, Palmer, and Dodge. He also served as president of the American Bar Association in 1896, as well as the Anti-Imperialist League, Massachusetts Civil Reform Club, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Thursday Evening Club, Game Club, and Good Government Association, and as an overseer of Harvard College in 1872-1888 and 1892-1910.
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Collection Description
The papers of Moorfield Storey include original correspondence, typescript letters, business and legal papers, writings, a copy of his autobiography, a facsimile of Gen. George Washington's accounts (1775-1783), and scrapbooks. In addition to papers documenting Storey's interest in anti-imperialism and civil service reform, the collection contains scrapbooks related to Philippines independence, as well a