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 SHORT

SHOUP

at the Ohio Wesley;in university, 1876-77; adjunct professor of history ami phiiosopliy in the Ohio State university, 1870-8'3,ana professor of Englisli and liistory in the Ohio State university, 1881-83. He was a member of several historical societies in Europe and America. He prepared the article on " Oliio " for the Encyclopedia Britannica (1881); edited McClintock's " Lectureson:\Iethod- ology " (187-2) and is the author of: Tltc Last Glad- iatorial Show (1871); Symbolism of the Pnxhri:- tian Cross (1875); Xortk Americans of Antiquity (1880): Ohio: a Sketch of Industrial Progress and Historical Reference Lists for the Students in Ohio University (1882). He died at Columbus, Oliio. Nov. 11. 1SS3.

SHORT, William, diplomatist, was born in Si)ring Garden, Suny county. Va.. Sept. 30, 17.>9; son of Col. AVilliam and Elizabeth (Skip- with) Short; grandson of William Sliort, of Surry county, and a descendant of William Short, an early emigrant to Virginia. He was graduated at the College of William and Mary, 1779; served as a member of the governor's council, 1783, and went to France with Jefferson in 1784, as secre- tary of legation. He was appointed by President Washington charge d'affaires, S'pt. 20. \1'<9; was commissioned April 20, 1790; transferred to The Hague as U.S. minister resident, Jan. 16, 1794. and to Madrid as commissioner plenipotentiary, Dec. 19, 1792, with William Carmichael, charge d'affaires at Madrid, to adjust the boundary lines of Florida and Mississippi, the question of navi- gation on the Mississippi river and other com- merce questions. He became U.S. minister res- ident at Madrid and sole commissioner, May 28, 1794. Carmichael having returned to the United States, and he concluded the several treaties wliich were signed, Oct. 27, 1795. He visited Paris in November, 1795, and then returned to tl>e United States. His state pai>ers were valuable contributions to the history of the relations be- tween Spain and the United States. Hisbi'other, Peyton Short, was a Kentucky state senator, 1792- 96. William Short never married, and he died in Pliiladelphia. Pa.. Dec. 5, 1849.

SHORTER, John Gill, governor of Alabama, was born in Monticello, Ga., April 23, 1818; son of Dr. Reuben Clarke and Mary (Gill) Shorter. His grandfather was a native of Virginia. He was gradu- ated at the University of Georgia, A.B., 1837, A.M., 1840; removed to Irwinton, Barbour county, Ala., with lis parents, where lie studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1838. He settled in practice in Eufaula, Ala., and was api)ointed solicitor of the judicial circuit in 1842. He was married Jan. 4, 1843, to

Mary J., daughter of Dr. Cullen and Jane (Lamon) Battle of Eufaula; was a state senator, 1845-47; a state representative from Barbour county in the Alabama legislature in 1851, and was appointed judge of the circuit court of the state by Governor Collier in 1851, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Goldthwaite. He was elected for a term of si.x; years in 1852, and re-elected in 1858, serving until 1801, when he was sent as commissioner from Alabama to Georgia to urge the legislature of that state to co-operate in the movement for secession; was a delegate from Alabama in the provisional congress of the Con- federate States at Montgomery, 1861, and was elected governor of Alabama in the same year, defeating T. H. Watts of Montgomery. He served as governor until the close of his official term, Januaiy, 1804. wlien he resumed his law practice. He died in Eufaula. Ala., May 29. 1872.

SHOUP, Francis Asbury, soldier, was born in Laurel, Ind., ]\Iarcli 22, 1834; son of George and Jaue (Con well) Shoup; grandson of Joel and Virginia (Grove) Shoup and of James and Mary (King) Con well. He was graduated from the U.S. Military academj- in 1855, and promoted brevet 2d lieutenant of artillery, and was commissioned od lieutenant, Dec. 16, 1855. He served in gar- rison at Key West, Fla., 1855-56, and at Fort Moultrie, S.C, 1856; engaged in Florida hostil- ities against the Seminole Indians, 1856-88; again in garrison at Fort Moultrie, 1858; on leave of absence, 1858-60, and resigned. 1860. He studied law and practised in Indianapolis, Ind., and St. Augustine, Fla., then joined the Confedeiate States army and rose to the rank of brigadier- general in 1862. He commanded the 3d brigade in Smith's division, Pemberton's corps, in the defence of Vicksburg, and was chief of artilleiy to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in the Dalton cam- paign and the defence of Atlanta. He was pro- fessor of applied mathematics at the University of Mississippi, 1800-08. and later was professor of mathematics at the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. lie took orders in the Protestant Episcopal church in 186S; was first chaplain of the University of the South, 1869-71; was rector at Waterford, N.Y., 1875-77; Nashville, Tenn., 1877-80; Jackson, Tenn., 1880-81, and New Orleans, La., 1881 to 1883. He was again at the University of the South as professor of metaphy- sics, 1883-96. He was married June 29, 1871, to. Esther Habersham, daughter of the Rt. Rev. Stephen and Charlotte (Barnwell) El well of Soutli Carolina. In 1878 he received the degree of D.D. from the University of the South. He is the author of: Infantry Tactics (1862); Artillenj Division Drill (1804); Elements of Algebra (1874) and Mechanism and Personality (1889). He died at Columbia, Tenn., Sept. 4, 1896.