Conflict - this reference gives his mother as Ellen Rice.

John A. Storm was educated in the public schools and at the age of eighteen years learned the machinist and tool-making trades at the Allentown Iron Company at Allentown. He worked as a joumeyman until 1898 but since that time he has acted in various responsible capacities. Mr. Storm has been employed by the Dent Hardware Company, Fullerton. Pa., since the inception of it. He is now foreman of the machine department and assistant to H. P. Newhard, secretary and superintendent of he Dent Hardware Company. He built his own residence in 1903, located at the corner of American and Washington Streets, Fullerton. Socially he is a member of the Independent Americans since he is sixteen years old; the Allentown Aerie No 110, F. O. E; and in politics he is a Republican.

In 1910, he promoted the Fullerton Stone Company which manufactures a crushed stone also a building stone. The company employs as many as thirty men. Mr. Storm is the secretary and treasurer of the corporation which he also serves as a director. In 1912, he was one of the organizers of the Fullerton Fire Company and was elected its first treasurer. He was married. June 25, 1897, to Hattie B. Dieffenderfer, daughter of Lewis A. and Anna (Mohr) Dieffenderfer. They had an only son, Earl Lewis Philip Storm, born May 22, 1899, who died after being sick only one day, July 14, 1913. Mr. And Mrs. Storm are Lutherans and he helped to organize the church at Fullerton in 1902, and he has served it as deacon and trustee.