He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, the son of Benjamin Franklin Story, a printer from Lyndon, Vermont and Rebecca Jennie Turner of St. Joseph, Michigan.
Educated in public schools he began his career in 1895 as an office boy at the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company in Springfield.
[1] In 1914, his two-part serialized story "The Cruise of the Rodney Boone" was positively appraised by the Holton Signal as one of the better works in boy's interest magazine American Boy,[2] while Skinny Harrison, Adventurer was similarly lauded by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1922.
[3] Story was the editor of the company's employee magazine, the Mutual Circle, from 1942 to 1946.
He was a member of the Republican Party, the Sons of the American Revolution, the Authors League of America, and was a Mason.