BIO: Robert N. Short, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER XXXIX. 

                        BOROUGH OF MECHANICSBURG.

434  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  ROBERT N. SHORT, physician, Mechanicsburg, was born on the Cumberland 
River, Pulaski Co., Ky., September 6, 1831, the eldest son in the 
family of eight children of Milton and Mary (Tate) Short.  When our 
subject was seven years of age his parents removed to Lawrence County, 
Ind., where he worked on the farm, attending school during winters.  
This and two years at Spring Creek Academy, and private tutorship under 
Prof. E. F. Eaton, constituted his school advantages.  In 1850 he began 
the study of medicine graduating from the Southern Medical College in 
1853.  He then attended a full course of lectures at St. Louis 
University Medical Department, session of 1853-54, and subsequently 
graduated from Miami Medical College in 1871; practiced medicine in 
Jefferson Parish, La., about two years; went thence to Palestine, 
Crawford Co., Ill., two years; later to Springville, Lawrence Co., 
Ind., in partnership with his brother, Wesley Short, M. D., in 1861; 
moved to Centreville, this county, in October, 1861, devoting his time 
to the practice of medicine and surgery until October, 1865, when he 
located at Mechanicsburg, Penn., where he has since been actively 
engaged in the practice of his profession.  Dr. Short married, April 
12, 1860, Miss Anna E., daughter of Robert and Sarah (Schock) Wilson, 
and to this union were born the following named children:  Sarah T., 
born December 11, 1861, died August 7, 1882; Robert W., born September 
22, 1863 (a graduate of Mechanicsburg High School, at present attending 
the Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, Dr. Short is a member of Eureka 
Lodge, No. 302, F. & A. M., Samuel C. Perkins Chapter, No. 209, R. A. 
M., and St. John's Commandery, No. 8, K. T., and Mechanicsburg Lodge, 
No. 215, I. O. O. F.; has been a member of Cumberland County Medical 
Society since its organization (1866), and was its president from 1876 
to 1877.  He has been a member of the State Medical Society since 1867, 
and of American Medical Association since 1880.  He was appointed 
United States Examining Surgeon July 31, 1885.