In Leipzig he heard Karl Neumann, Bruhns, Mayer, Van der Müll, and Engelmann.

With the establishment of Johns Hopkins University in 1876, Story was recruited by Daniel Coit Gilman as an Associate.

[3] Story was instrumental in starting two publication projects: The Johns Hopkins University Circulars was a student paper detailing classes and attendees.

[4] When Clark University was established in 1889, President G. Stanley Hall hired Oskar Bolza and Story to lead the mathematics department.

[6] Solomon Lefschetz and other mathematicians contributed to making Clark the leading site for mathematics in the USA until 1892 when University of Chicago eclipsed it.