Storrow (James Jackson Jr.) is born on Beacon Hill.

Born at 44 Pinckney Street, James Jackson Storrow graduates from Harvard and Harvard Law School, practices law, and marries Helen Osborne in 1891. He goes to work as an investment banker for the Lee, Higginson Company in 1900, serves on the Boston School Committee (1901-06), runs unsuccessfully for mayor in 1910,* serves briefly as president of General Motors in 1910, and then as president of the National Council of Boy Scouts. The leading proponent for construction of the Charles River Dam and creation of today’s Esplanade, Storrow becomes one of the leading civic figures in Boston. He dies in New York City on March 13, 1926.