W. F. Story, of Story Bros., lawyers, was born in Fentress County, December 20, 1846, the son of Noah W. and Catherine (Woolsey) Story, both of English ancestry. The paternal ancestors came over with William Penn, one of whom, Thomas Story, assisted in the colonization of Pennsylvania. The father, born in North Carolina, died in White County, Tenn., March 30, 1879. The mother, a native of Fentress County, died in White County, August 15, 1885. The father came from Fentress County to White County in 1865. He was a farmer and a member of the same church as his wife, the United Baptist Church. After completing a liberal education, our subject taught school for two years, and in 1872 he began the study of law under Col. Calms, of Sparta, with whom he became partner, after he had the same year secured a license to practice. In 1873 he established a firm of his own, since which time he has been practicing. In 1885 Gov. Bates appointed him to the newly created office of White County judge, to which he was elected in 1886. For the last twenty-seven years he has been associated with his younger brother, Ephraim, in their present very successful firm. April 3, 1878, our subject married Hattie E. Cole, a cultivated lady born at Elkhart, Ind., in 1847. Of their four children a son and daughter are living. He is a sound Democrat and he and his wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

Source:   Goodspeed Pub. Co. History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of the Counties of White, Warren, Coffee, DeKalb, and Cannon, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Original Observations, Reminiscences, Etc., Etc. Nashville: Goodspeed Pub. Co, 1887.