John P. Story (August 25, 1841 – March 25, 1915) was a career officer in the United States Army who attained the rank of major general.

An 1865 graduate of the United States Military Academy, he served from shortly after the end of the American Civil War until retiring in 1905.

[1] His brother Francis was a banker and businessman in California who served as president of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce.

[1] His sister Anna was the wife of Judge Albert M. Stephens, who served on the probate court bench of Los Angeles County, California.

[7] He attended the Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Virginia from May to August 1876, after which he was again assigned to special duty with the Signal Corps.

[7] The Signal Corps established the Weather Bureau in 1870, and Story made extensive studies in meteorology as part of his duties.

[7][8] In 1887 he became a member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati by right of his descent from Lieutenant Colonel John Story of the Continental Army.

[7] As a specialist in the use of coastal artillery to defend harbors, Story was a member of the Army's Board of Ordnance and Fortifications from 1901 to 1902 and 1904 to 1905.

[12] He worked and lived primarily in Washington, D.C.[12] Caroline Story (1870-1914) was the wife of Belgian diplomat Count Conrad De Buisseret.

[13] When she died in December 1914 as the result of diphtheria contracted while working as a nurse near the front lines of World War I, her husband was serving as Minister to Russia in Petrograd.

[14][13] According to contemporary newspaper accounts, General Story's health declined rapidly after learning of his daughter's death in Belgium, and he died soon afterwards.