Peyton Short was a land speculator as well as a member of the first Kentucky Senate from 1792-1796. Attended College of William and Mary, member of Phi Betta Kappa one of the oldest faternities in America. Brother of William Short and the brother-in-law of future president, William Henry Harrison.
"Peyton Short, Esqr. from Virga. came to Lexington at least as early as 1790, brother of the hon. Wm. Short, one of the Ministers to France under Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Short was highly esteemed as a Citizen, a gentleman & man of wit. He brought a cargo of goods to Lexn. in February 1790, but from purchases of land and other objects of speculation, quit the Mercantile business. He was one of the state senators from Fayette in 1792. He removed to Woodford Co. and owned the farm lately owned & occupied by Mr. Charles Bright. One of his sisters married Charles Wilkins Esqr. the other Dr. F. Ridgeley. He was the father of John Cleves Short, Esq., of vicinity of Cincinnati, now decd. and of Dr. Charles W. Short, Professor in our Medical College & afterwards of Louisville now deceased, and of an only daughter Anne, who became the wife of Dr. Benjamin W. Dudley, and the mother of his two sons Dr. Charles Wilkins Dudley and Wm. A. Dudley Esqr. decd. lately President of the Lexington & Louisville Shortline Rail Road a man of excellent business talents and of acquirements in his legal Profession." -William A. Leavy, "A MEMOIR OF LEXINGTON AND ITS VICINITY With Some Notice of Many Prominent Citizens and Its Institutions of Education and Religion"
"Peyton Short, Esqr. from Virga. came to Lexington at least as early as 1790, brother of the hon. Wm. Short, one of the Ministers to France under Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Short was highly esteemed as a Citizen, a gentleman & man of wit. He brought a cargo of goods to Lexn. in February 1790, but from purchases of land and other objects of speculation, quit the Mercantile business. He was one of the state senators from Fayette in 1792. He removed to Woodford Co. and owned the farm lately owned & occupied by Mr. Charles Bright. One of his sisters married Charles Wilkins Esqr. the other Dr. F. Ridgeley. He was the father of John Cleves Short, Esq., of vicinity of Cincinnati, now decd. and of Dr. Charles W. Short, Professor in our Medical College & afterwards of Louisville now deceased, and of an only daughter Anne, who became the wife of Dr. Benjamin W. Dudley, and the mother of his two sons Dr. Charles Wilkins Dudley and Wm. A. Dudley Esqr. decd. lately President of the Lexington & Louisville Shortline Rail Road a man of excellent business talents and of acquirements in his legal Profession." -William A. Leavy, "A MEMOIR OF LEXINGTON AND ITS VICINITY With Some Notice of Many Prominent Citizens and Its Institutions of Education and Religion"
Peyton Short was a land speculator as well as a member of the first Kentucky Senate from 1792-1796. Attended College of William and Mary, member of Phi Betta Kappa one of the oldest faternities in America. Brother of William Short and the brother-in-law of future president, William Henry Harrison.
"Peyton Short, Esqr. from Virga. came to Lexington at least as early as 1790, brother of the hon. Wm. Short, one of the Ministers to France under Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Short was highly esteemed as a Citizen, a gentleman & man of wit. He brought a cargo of goods to Lexn. in February 1790, but from purchases of land and other objects of speculation, quit the Mercantile business. He was one of the state senators from Fayette in 1792. He removed to Woodford Co. and owned the farm lately owned & occupied by Mr. Charles Bright. One of his sisters married Charles Wilkins Esqr. the other Dr. F. Ridgeley. He was the father of John Cleves Short, Esq., of vicinity of Cincinnati, now decd. and of Dr. Charles W. Short, Professor in our Medical College & afterwards of Louisville now deceased, and of an only daughter Anne, who became the wife of Dr. Benjamin W. Dudley, and the mother of his two sons Dr. Charles Wilkins Dudley and Wm. A. Dudley Esqr. decd. lately President of the Lexington & Louisville Shortline Rail Road a man of excellent business talents and of acquirements in his legal Profession." -William A. Leavy, "A MEMOIR OF LEXINGTON AND ITS VICINITY With Some Notice of Many Prominent Citizens and Its Institutions of Education and Religion"
"Peyton Short, Esqr. from Virga. came to Lexington at least as early as 1790, brother of the hon. Wm. Short, one of the Ministers to France under Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Short was highly esteemed as a Citizen, a gentleman & man of wit. He brought a cargo of goods to Lexn. in February 1790, but from purchases of land and other objects of speculation, quit the Mercantile business. He was one of the state senators from Fayette in 1792. He removed to Woodford Co. and owned the farm lately owned & occupied by Mr. Charles Bright. One of his sisters married Charles Wilkins Esqr. the other Dr. F. Ridgeley. He was the father of John Cleves Short, Esq., of vicinity of Cincinnati, now decd. and of Dr. Charles W. Short, Professor in our Medical College & afterwards of Louisville now deceased, and of an only daughter Anne, who became the wife of Dr. Benjamin W. Dudley, and the mother of his two sons Dr. Charles Wilkins Dudley and Wm. A. Dudley Esqr. decd. lately President of the Lexington & Louisville Shortline Rail Road a man of excellent business talents and of acquirements in his legal Profession." -William A. Leavy, "A MEMOIR OF LEXINGTON AND ITS VICINITY With Some Notice of Many Prominent Citizens and Its Institutions of Education and Religion"
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