Primary education with teacher Joshua Fry; studied medicine under Caspar Wistar, 1813
Alma mater
Transylvania University (B.A., M.A.) University of Pennsylvania (M.D.)
Occupation
Botanist
Known for
Five species and one genus of plants are named after him; chair of Materia Medica and Medical Botany at Transylvania University; owner of one of the most complete herbariums in the United States
Notable work
A Catalog of the Native Phaenogamous Plants and Ferns of Kentucky
Spouse
Mary Henry Churchill
(m. 1815)
Children
6+
Parent
Peyton Short (father)
Relatives
Frederick Ridgely (uncle)
Charles Wilkins Short (October 6, 1794 – March 7, 1863) was an American botanist.[1] He primarily worked in the state of Kentucky. Short discovered several species of plants and has six species of plants named after him. He attended Transylvania University and the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to being a botanist, he practiced medicine and taught materia medica. Short also owned a sizable herbarium. Short retired from teaching in 1849.
^Rossiter Johnson, John Howard Brown, ed. (1904), The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans
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