Jim Storm
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Jim Storm (b.1852 - d.1941) was born on November 20, 1852 in Perry, Tennessee and given the full name of James Pleasant Storm. He was the son of William Storm, born in North Carolina in 1813, and Martha (Thomas) Storm, born in North Carolina in 1818.
Jim was living and farming in California in 1880. He was also a teamster. By 1889, he was a husband and father and his family was living in Arizona. His second son was born in Prescott and his third son was born in Chino Valley. By 1900, he was listed as a stock rancher on the U.S. census in Seligman.
He was imprisoned in the Yuma Territorial Prison for embezzlement and was sentenced to a four year prison term in November, 1909. However, he was pardoned by Territorial Governor George Young in June, 1910.
He became a resident of the Arizona Pioneers' Home in Prescott in 1932.
Handwriting on photograph reads: "Jim Storm".
Jim died on October 27, 1941 at the Pioneers' Home. He was buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Prescott.
In 1973, the second windmill that Jim Storm had purchased was bought by Bob Kuhne who donated it to the Sharlot Hall Museum
Sources: California, Great Registers, 1848-1921; U.S. Census 1880, 1900, 1920, 1940; California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994; Arizona, Birth Certificates and Indexes, 1855-1940; Pioneers' Home Resident Ledger and Index, 1911-2000; findagrave.com
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