OBIT: Thomas B. SHORTER, 1897, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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THOMAS B. SHORTER.

  Thomas B. Shorter, an aged and well known colored citizen of this city, 
passed quietly away at his home, 1103 Sixteenth street, at 3 o'clock yesterday 
afternoon.  He had been ailing for years with diseases due to advanced age, and 
though his death was not unexpected, it case a gloom over the many friends of 
the family.
  Mr. Shorter was born at Barree, Huntingdon county, 78 years ago.  In his 
early life he learned the barber trade, which he followed until 1885, when he 
retired from business.  His last shop was located at Eleventh avenue and 
Sixteenth street.  Before and during the war Mr. Shorter lent many a helping 
hand to fugitive slaves, doing all that he could to assit the less fortunate to 
the land of freedom.  All his life he was interested in ameliorating the 
condition of his people everywhere.  In local affairs he was a good citizen in 
the best sense of the expression.
  Mr. Shorter was twice married.  His second wife, Mary A., and these children 
survive: John H. Shorter and Mrs. Phoebe Johnson, of this city, and James 
Shorter, of Bellefonte.  He was a prominent member of the African Methodist 
Episcopal church, where funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock to-morrow 
afternoon, in charge of the pastor, Rev. J. W. Young.  The interment will 
follow in Hollidaysburg.

Morning Tribune, Wednesday, December 29, 1897