Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1908 — Selections [ARTICLE]

Selections

HE DOESN’T FORGET. Frederick w. Story of Baltimore Has a Wonderful Memory, Those who know Frederick W. Story, the Baltimore lawyer, do not regard it as remarkable, says the Baltimore Sun, that he was able to reproduce from memory the will of his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Story, who died some years ago. Mr. Story wrote the will from his recollections of it after having read the document, and his draft has been sent to the probate court of Middlesex county, Mass., to be set up in lieu of the original will, which has been lost. His associates in the city solicitor’s office frequently call upon him for a name or a date, and he has scarcely been known to fail to give the desired information. Some of those who know him say he never forgets anything be reads or sees. He has at his fingers’ ends all the important decisions of the court of appeals and can mention the title of any' case in which a point that may be at issue has been decided. He admits that he may have forgotten some things, but be can repeat the name of every member of the house of Plantagenet, the names of the kings and queens of England and France and the rulers of many other countries, with the dates and duration of their terms. He can repeat also the names of the presidents of the United States with the years in which they served, but be says every one should be atile to do that.

Although he has, ot course, not been at school for years, he can repeat pages of Virgil and Homer, and probably could repeat nearly the entire Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal church, of which he Is a warden. Mr. Story is a student of genealogy and history and has a vast fund of information on those subjects. From memory be can draw the map of almost any country on the globe. When he was five years old he started to school, and the first day he was promoted to the first class, but was put back because of his lack of knowledge of geography. That lack he has since supplied. He continued at school until he was graduated from Harvard. Mr. Story is a son of the late Judge Isaac Story of Massachusetts and comes of a brainy family.