Wallace & Mary Short

SHORT NOE

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 10/16/2010 at 16:36:32

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Wallace and Mary Short
By Mrs R F Hunter

The families of James Black Short and Eugenia Noe came from Ohio and Illinois to settle in Page County, Iowa, in the mid 1850s. James and Eugenia attended Amity College in southwestern Iowa and were married, November 7, 1861. Their children were Wallace, Jessie Frank and William, all of whom attended Amity College. Wallace was born June 29, 1866, attended country school, worked in a cheese factory, took post graduate work at Amity College, then went to Beloit, Wisconsin, where he graduated from Beloit College.

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After seven years there, they were called to Beacon Hill Church, Kansas City, Missouri, where their daughter, Emily Vesta, was born June 9, 1908. In 1910 the First Congregational Church called them to Sioux City, Iowa. Here they adopted sons, Burton Harrison, born September 24, 1911, and John Wallace, born November 23, 1916.

‘So much has been written about the Short family in Woodbury County that I will not repeat here, but refer the reader to books which are in the Sioux City Public Library and the Museum files. Mrs Short wrote Just One American and Professor W H Cumberland of Buena College wrote Wallace M Short – Iowa Rebel’. Emily Short Hunter.