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Bessie Short 1899 - 1977

Bessie Short of Chase City, Mecklenburg County, Virginia was born on May 4, 1899, and died at age 77 years old in February 1977.

Bessie Short
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Chase City, Mecklenburg County, Virginia 23924
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In 1899, in the year that Bessie Short was born, on February 4th, the Philippine–American War began. The Philippines objected to the Treaty of Paris, signed in 1898, that transferred possession of the Philippines from Spain to the U.S. Filipinos began a fight for independence and fighting between U.S. forces and those of the Philippine Republic broke out. On June 2nd, the Philippines officially declared war on the United States.
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In 1901, Bessie was merely 2 years old when the first Nobel Prizes were awarded. Chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896, had provided in his will for prizes in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine, who have produced the most distinguished literary work of an idealist tendency, and who have contributed the most toward world peace. The winners in 1901 were: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen for physics, Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff for chemistry, Emil Adolf von Behring for physiology or medicine, Sully Prudhomme for literature, and Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy for peace.
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Peckenpaugh, Catherine (Born May 27, 1850) Short, Anna (Born Aug 14, 1909) Short, Ann (Born Aug 14, 1909) Short, Carol (Born Jul 31, 1937) Short, Joanne (Born Nov 10, 1940) Short, Margaret (Born Dec 12, 1841) Short, Lester (Born Aug 17, 1899) Short, Ida (Born 1902) Short, William (Born 1870) Windham/short/duval, Mildred (Born 1842)
Short/silk, Eula (Born 1881) Short, Mamie (Jun 19, 1903 - Nov 24, 1986) Short, Robert (Born 1874) Short, Mary (Born Aug 29) Short, Marcus (Feb 9, 1844 - Sep 18, 1876) Short, Joseph (Jun 20, 1910 - Apr 17, 2001) Short, Georgeann (Born Aug 25, 1932) Mellin, George (Aug 25, 1932 - Aug 24, 2006) Short, Charles (May 22, 1891 - May 1979) Short, Alfred (Jun 7, 1916 - Mar 1987)
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