 He served on the Boston City Council, 1915-1918.The son of prominent Boston lawyer and Episcopalian James Jackson Storrow (1837-1897) and his first wife, Anna Maria Perry (who died in 1865), J.J. Storrow II had a younger brother Samuel (born 1865, Harvard Class of '87) and elder sister Elizabeth Randolph Storrow (born 1862).He attended Harvard College, Class of '85.