Additional biography provided by Ken DeWitt Thomas (# 47617690) on 7/16/2023; Veteran status provided by William Fischer, Jr. (# 47039399) on 4/16/2024.

Corrington Searles Von Storch (son of Ferdinand Von Storch and Caroline Slocum) was born on 4 Dec 1835 in Providence, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. He served in the military on 3 Dec 1861. he was a Civil War veteran: Co. H, 112nd PA Vol. Inf.

Corrington Searles Von Storch and Harriet Newell Rogers were married on 28 Dec 1856 in Providence, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. They had one child, Ida May Von Storch Aylsworth was born on 17 Feb 1867 in Barkamstead, Hartford County, Connecticut.

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At the age of sixteen Corrington was apprenticed to the machinist's trade at Whitehaven with the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, and for some time was stationary engineer in a sawmill. Returning to Scranton in 1856, he became outside foreman for the Luzerne Coal Company, and in 1859 began to work for the New York & Pennsylvania Coal Company, after which he was engineer for a sash and door company. December 2, 1861, he became a member of Company H, One Hundred and Twelfth Pennsylvania Infantry or Second Artillery. Three months were spent at Ft. Delaware, after which he was ordered to Ft. Thayer, and assisted in building forts until an attack of fever obliged him to leave the service. In spite of his remonstrance, he was discharged on account of physical disability. Soon after his return home, he recruited sixty-nine men for a construction corps and was sent southwest to Chattanooga, where he assisted in building bridges and railroads. He had in charge the construction of the fortifications that the rebel forces attempted to storm with such disastrous results. While in charge of the corps he drew the pay of captain and ranked as such. At the expiration of his time he returned home, in March, 1865.

For two years Mr. von Storch was an engineer for the Delaware & Hudson Company and afterward had charge of the erection of breaker machinery. Failing health forced him to give up active work and he resigned his position in 1873, since which he has lived quietly at his home, No. 1812 North Main Avenue. In Providence, December 28, 1858, he married Miss Harriet M. Rogers, who was born in Walton, Delaware County, N. Y., and was the fifth among eight children that attained maturity, but all of whom are now deceased excepting herself and E. W. He was reared in Delaware County, N. Y., and was a teacher there, also followed that occupation in Scranton after coming here in 1856.

The father of Mrs. von Storch, William C. Rogers, was born in Guilford, Conn., and engaged in farming in Delaware County, N. Y., until his death, at the age of sixty-six. His mother, Catherine, was a relative of the illustrious Alexander Hamilton. Grandfather Asa Rogers, a native and merchant of Guilford, was a pioneer in the wilds of Delaware County, where he cultivated a farm. The mother of Mrs. von Storch, Elizabeth Felter, was born in New Jersey, but spent her girlhood years principally in New York City, and died in Scranton in March, 1889, aged eighty-four and one-half years. Her father, Henry Felter, was an early settler of Susquehanna County, Pa., where he followed the occupation of a farmer together with the shoemaker's trade. Mr. and Mrs. von Storch attend the Presbyterian Church, of which she is a member. They are the parents of a daughter, Ida. Fraternally our subject is identified with Hiram Lodge No. 261, F. & A. M., Lackawanna Chapter No. 185, R. A. M., and Coeur de Lion Commandery No. 17, K. T., also Lieut. Ezra S. Grififin Post No. 139, G. A. R. In political faith he is a Republican and has served I in city and county committees, rendering efficient service in every responsibility which he has assumed.

(Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. (1897) Chapman Publishing Co. New York and Chicago.)