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Shorter, John Gill, 1818-1872 (27)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f48ckf (person)

Civil War governor of Ala. Governor of Alabama and jurist.

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Shorter, John Freeman, 1841-1865 (6)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bw87mw (person)

A direct descendent of Elizabeth Hemings, John Freeman Shorter grew up in Washington, D.C. as a free man. By the spring of 1863, he was living in Ohio when he left for Boston to enlist in the 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. A white officer once described Shorter as “tall, of muscular build, … hair light, complexion almost white, and blue eyes, whose lively expression brightened a face otherwise somewhat grave.” Shorter became one of only two other fully-commissioned black officers in t...

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Shorter, John, 1926-.... (1)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bd953w (person)

Humphrey Owen Jones, chemist and pioneering mountaineer, (1878-1912) and his wife Muriel Gwendolen Jones, ne Edwards, 1886-1912, both died in a climbing accident at Mont Blanc in 1912 while on their honeymoon. Humphrey Owen Jones, from Aberystwyth, was fellow of Clare College and Jacksonian demonstrator in chemistry at Cambridge University. Mrs Muriel Gwendolen Jones was a former student of the University of Wales, Bangor having gained a first class honours in chemistry under Pro...

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Shorter, John H. (1)

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Shorter John b. 1926 (1)

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Shorter, John, active 1644-1699 (1)

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Shorter, John Goldsworthy, active 1782-1820, Collector of Customs at Hastings (1)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63v95zd (person)

Epithet: Collector of Customs at Hastings

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