When Glover Short Jr was born on 28 May 1765, in New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Glover Short, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Paine, was 19. He married Lucy Richardson on 3 March 1791, in Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Eaton, Madison, New York, United States for about 10 years and Cincinnatus, Cortland, New York, United States in 1830. He died on 27 February 1833, in New York, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Eaton Village Cemetery, Eaton, Madison, New York, United States.
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English: nickname for a short person, from Middle English short ‘short’ (Old English sceort).
English: topographic name for someone who lived at a detached or cut-off piece of land (Middle English shorte, shirte, from Old English scierte, scerte, scyrte) or else a habitational name from a place so named, such as Shoart in Harbeldown (Kent) and Shuart in Saint Nicholas at Wade (Kent). Compare Shorter .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac an Gheairr, Mac an Ghirr ‘son of the short man’ (see McGirr ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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