Source: Biographical and Genealogical Record of La Salle and Grundy County,
Illinois, Volume 11, Chicago, 1900, p762-764
LEMUEL SHORT.
It is probable that there never lived in Grundy county a better example of the self-made man than the late Lemuel Short, of Goose Lake township, some account of whose useful and busy career it will be attempted to give in the following paragraphs. The life of such a man affords a useful lesson to young men of the rising generation and should form a part of such a work as this, which is devoted to the lives and achievements of the men who have redeemed Illinois from a wilderness state and promoted its important interests and developed its natural resources until they have made it in many respects the leading state of the Union.
Lemuel Short was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1819, a son of James and Ellen (McFarland) Short, natives of the Keystone state. In 1824, when he was about five years old, the family removed to a point within the present limits of Ashland county, Ohio, where his parents both died, his father in 1863. The summer of 1836 was spent by young Short, then seventeen years old, in Michigan. He returned to Ohio and remained there until 1838, when he emigrated to Illinois and located in Lake county, where he soon purchased a farm and busied himself with its improvement and in hunting and trapping. He managed his affairs with so much care and thrift that he soon paid for his land.
In 1856 Mr. Short came to Grundy County and bought the property in Felix (now Goose Lake) township, where his widow now lives. He was industrious and enterprising, and possessed good judgment and business ability of a high order, and he accumulated property rapidly, and at the time of his death, which occurred at his home in Goose Lake township, January 13, 1895, he owned more than twenty-five hundred acres of farm land in Goose Lake township and a farm of three hundred and seventy-three acres in Lake county, and was one of the leading stock-raisers of the county. This property he gained by the most commendable methods. He gave strict attention to every detail of his business and accorded to every man with whom he dealt the fullest rights and advantages in every transaction consistent with equity and good business practice. His success was won openly and in a fair fight with the world, arid every one who knew him rejoiced with him in it, for all knew that it was richly deserved.
Dying, he left not only wealth but the better heritage of a good name.
Illinois, Volume 11, Chicago, 1900, p762-764
LEMUEL SHORT.
It is probable that there never lived in Grundy county a better example of the self-made man than the late Lemuel Short, of Goose Lake township, some account of whose useful and busy career it will be attempted to give in the following paragraphs. The life of such a man affords a useful lesson to young men of the rising generation and should form a part of such a work as this, which is devoted to the lives and achievements of the men who have redeemed Illinois from a wilderness state and promoted its important interests and developed its natural resources until they have made it in many respects the leading state of the Union.
Lemuel Short was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1819, a son of James and Ellen (McFarland) Short, natives of the Keystone state. In 1824, when he was about five years old, the family removed to a point within the present limits of Ashland county, Ohio, where his parents both died, his father in 1863. The summer of 1836 was spent by young Short, then seventeen years old, in Michigan. He returned to Ohio and remained there until 1838, when he emigrated to Illinois and located in Lake county, where he soon purchased a farm and busied himself with its improvement and in hunting and trapping. He managed his affairs with so much care and thrift that he soon paid for his land.
In 1856 Mr. Short came to Grundy County and bought the property in Felix (now Goose Lake) township, where his widow now lives. He was industrious and enterprising, and possessed good judgment and business ability of a high order, and he accumulated property rapidly, and at the time of his death, which occurred at his home in Goose Lake township, January 13, 1895, he owned more than twenty-five hundred acres of farm land in Goose Lake township and a farm of three hundred and seventy-three acres in Lake county, and was one of the leading stock-raisers of the county. This property he gained by the most commendable methods. He gave strict attention to every detail of his business and accorded to every man with whom he dealt the fullest rights and advantages in every transaction consistent with equity and good business practice. His success was won openly and in a fair fight with the world, arid every one who knew him rejoiced with him in it, for all knew that it was richly deserved.
Dying, he left not only wealth but the better heritage of a good name.
Source: Biographical and Genealogical Record of La Salle and Grundy County,
Illinois, Volume 11, Chicago, 1900, p762-764
LEMUEL SHORT.
It is probable that there never lived in Grundy county a better example of the self-made man than the late Lemuel Short, of Goose Lake township, some account of whose useful and busy career it will be attempted to give in the following paragraphs. The life of such a man affords a useful lesson to young men of the rising generation and should form a part of such a work as this, which is devoted to the lives and achievements of the men who have redeemed Illinois from a wilderness state and promoted its important interests and developed its natural resources until they have made it in many respects the leading state of the Union.
Lemuel Short was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1819, a son of James and Ellen (McFarland) Short, natives of the Keystone state. In 1824, when he was about five years old, the family removed to a point within the present limits of Ashland county, Ohio, where his parents both died, his father in 1863. The summer of 1836 was spent by young Short, then seventeen years old, in Michigan. He returned to Ohio and remained there until 1838, when he emigrated to Illinois and located in Lake county, where he soon purchased a farm and busied himself with its improvement and in hunting and trapping. He managed his affairs with so much care and thrift that he soon paid for his land.
In 1856 Mr. Short came to Grundy County and bought the property in Felix (now Goose Lake) township, where his widow now lives. He was industrious and enterprising, and possessed good judgment and business ability of a high order, and he accumulated property rapidly, and at the time of his death, which occurred at his home in Goose Lake township, January 13, 1895, he owned more than twenty-five hundred acres of farm land in Goose Lake township and a farm of three hundred and seventy-three acres in Lake county, and was one of the leading stock-raisers of the county. This property he gained by the most commendable methods. He gave strict attention to every detail of his business and accorded to every man with whom he dealt the fullest rights and advantages in every transaction consistent with equity and good business practice. His success was won openly and in a fair fight with the world, arid every one who knew him rejoiced with him in it, for all knew that it was richly deserved.
Dying, he left not only wealth but the better heritage of a good name.
Illinois, Volume 11, Chicago, 1900, p762-764
LEMUEL SHORT.
It is probable that there never lived in Grundy county a better example of the self-made man than the late Lemuel Short, of Goose Lake township, some account of whose useful and busy career it will be attempted to give in the following paragraphs. The life of such a man affords a useful lesson to young men of the rising generation and should form a part of such a work as this, which is devoted to the lives and achievements of the men who have redeemed Illinois from a wilderness state and promoted its important interests and developed its natural resources until they have made it in many respects the leading state of the Union.
Lemuel Short was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1819, a son of James and Ellen (McFarland) Short, natives of the Keystone state. In 1824, when he was about five years old, the family removed to a point within the present limits of Ashland county, Ohio, where his parents both died, his father in 1863. The summer of 1836 was spent by young Short, then seventeen years old, in Michigan. He returned to Ohio and remained there until 1838, when he emigrated to Illinois and located in Lake county, where he soon purchased a farm and busied himself with its improvement and in hunting and trapping. He managed his affairs with so much care and thrift that he soon paid for his land.
In 1856 Mr. Short came to Grundy County and bought the property in Felix (now Goose Lake) township, where his widow now lives. He was industrious and enterprising, and possessed good judgment and business ability of a high order, and he accumulated property rapidly, and at the time of his death, which occurred at his home in Goose Lake township, January 13, 1895, he owned more than twenty-five hundred acres of farm land in Goose Lake township and a farm of three hundred and seventy-three acres in Lake county, and was one of the leading stock-raisers of the county. This property he gained by the most commendable methods. He gave strict attention to every detail of his business and accorded to every man with whom he dealt the fullest rights and advantages in every transaction consistent with equity and good business practice. His success was won openly and in a fair fight with the world, arid every one who knew him rejoiced with him in it, for all knew that it was richly deserved.
Dying, he left not only wealth but the better heritage of a good name.
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