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Short, Charles Wilkins

botanist, was born Oct. 6, 1794, in Woodford county, Ky. In 1838 he moved to Louisville, Ky., where he was associated with several others in founding the medical department of the university of Louisville, and continued to hold a chair in that institution until 1849, when he retired. He then devoted himself to the collection of plants and flowers, and, with Dr. Robert Peter and Henry A. Griswold, prepared Plants of Kentucky. He died March 7, 1863, in Louisville, Ky.