Howard Woodard Short was born 9-27-1909 in Parishville, St Lawrence Co. New York the 2nd son of Frederick M. & Lola (Brown) Short. He grew up in Winthrop, NY and attended high school located in Brasher, NY. As a young man his went to work for the Whitney Reality Co. which owned 97,000 acres of land in Hamilton Co. between Long Lake and Tupper Lake, NY. He worked for 13 years at various Forked Lake camps as a caretaker and guide until the start of WW II. In 1942 he moved to Endicott, NY and joined the IBM Corp. to work for the war effort. He remained with the company until his retirement in 1971, having worked for many years as a development modelmaker and manager of the Glendale modelshop.
True to his heritage as a Adirondack Mountain woodsman, he was an avid fisherman and hunter. His skill with pistol, rifle or shotgun was excellent. He participated in competitive events all his life and won numerous medals, awards and trophies for his abilities.
In 1938, while living at the Deerland Camp on Little Forked Lake, a marauding black bear become a problem. Early one day, while heading to the barn to do the chores, he encountered the bear cornered between the garden fence and the carpenter shop. Drawing his .45 caliber revolver he killed the animal with a single shot to the neck as the bear raised up on its rear legs.
Howard was also a life long member of the Masonic and Elk Lodges and a life member of the NRA.
He married on 5-7-1932 at Zion's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Utica, NY, by Rev. William E Nolte, to Gertrude Schnetzler. He died on 5-23-1973 at Endicott, NY and in buried in the family plot in Winthrop, NY.
True to his heritage as a Adirondack Mountain woodsman, he was an avid fisherman and hunter. His skill with pistol, rifle or shotgun was excellent. He participated in competitive events all his life and won numerous medals, awards and trophies for his abilities.
In 1938, while living at the Deerland Camp on Little Forked Lake, a marauding black bear become a problem. Early one day, while heading to the barn to do the chores, he encountered the bear cornered between the garden fence and the carpenter shop. Drawing his .45 caliber revolver he killed the animal with a single shot to the neck as the bear raised up on its rear legs.
Howard was also a life long member of the Masonic and Elk Lodges and a life member of the NRA.
He married on 5-7-1932 at Zion's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Utica, NY, by Rev. William E Nolte, to Gertrude Schnetzler. He died on 5-23-1973 at Endicott, NY and in buried in the family plot in Winthrop, NY.
Howard Woodard Short was born 9-27-1909 in Parishville, St Lawrence Co. New York the 2nd son of Frederick M. & Lola (Brown) Short. He grew up in Winthrop, NY and attended high school located in Brasher, NY. As a young man his went to work for the Whitney Reality Co. which owned 97,000 acres of land in Hamilton Co. between Long Lake and Tupper Lake, NY. He worked for 13 years at various Forked Lake camps as a caretaker and guide until the start of WW II. In 1942 he moved to Endicott, NY and joined the IBM Corp. to work for the war effort. He remained with the company until his retirement in 1971, having worked for many years as a development modelmaker and manager of the Glendale modelshop.
True to his heritage as a Adirondack Mountain woodsman, he was an avid fisherman and hunter. His skill with pistol, rifle or shotgun was excellent. He participated in competitive events all his life and won numerous medals, awards and trophies for his abilities.
In 1938, while living at the Deerland Camp on Little Forked Lake, a marauding black bear become a problem. Early one day, while heading to the barn to do the chores, he encountered the bear cornered between the garden fence and the carpenter shop. Drawing his .45 caliber revolver he killed the animal with a single shot to the neck as the bear raised up on its rear legs.
Howard was also a life long member of the Masonic and Elk Lodges and a life member of the NRA.
He married on 5-7-1932 at Zion's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Utica, NY, by Rev. William E Nolte, to Gertrude Schnetzler. He died on 5-23-1973 at Endicott, NY and in buried in the family plot in Winthrop, NY.
True to his heritage as a Adirondack Mountain woodsman, he was an avid fisherman and hunter. His skill with pistol, rifle or shotgun was excellent. He participated in competitive events all his life and won numerous medals, awards and trophies for his abilities.
In 1938, while living at the Deerland Camp on Little Forked Lake, a marauding black bear become a problem. Early one day, while heading to the barn to do the chores, he encountered the bear cornered between the garden fence and the carpenter shop. Drawing his .45 caliber revolver he killed the animal with a single shot to the neck as the bear raised up on its rear legs.
Howard was also a life long member of the Masonic and Elk Lodges and a life member of the NRA.
He married on 5-7-1932 at Zion's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Utica, NY, by Rev. William E Nolte, to Gertrude Schnetzler. He died on 5-23-1973 at Endicott, NY and in buried in the family plot in Winthrop, NY.
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