Union Cemetery

Short, William A


BORN IN: Kansas
DIED: 10/19/1908
AGED: 45
CAUSE OF DEATH: Acute congestion of lungs, liver and kid
DEATH LOCATION: San Francisco

OCCUPATION: Butcher

PLOT INFO:
BURIED NEARBY IN PLOT N133:
CURRENT EVENTS:
  • 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
  • 1866 Ku Klux Klan
  • 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
  • 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
  • 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
  • 1876 Baseball's National League
  • 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
  • 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
  • 1901 Teddy Roosevelt elected President
  • 1903 First powered flight (Wright Brothers)
  • 1906 The San Francisco Earthquake

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