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WALLACE MERTIN SHORT, clergyman, editor and legislator, died at Sioux City, Iowa, January 3, 1953; born near College Springs, Iowa, June 28, 1866; son of James B. and Eugenia Noe Short, who settled in Page county in l855 and 1857; grew up on the farm and attended rural school until 22 years of age; graduated from Amity college, Iowa, in 1887; and from Beloit college, Wisconsin, receiving his B.A. in 1893 and M.A. in 1896, working his way through school and receiving Phi Beta Kappa honors; attended Yale divinity school three years; married Mary Eliza Morse of Racine, Wisconsin, 1896, and ordained in the ministry of the Congregational church the same year; pastor Evansville, Wis., 1896-1903; Beacon Hill church, Kansas City, Mo., 1903-1910, First church Sioux City, Iowa, 1910-1914; founder and pastor Central church (independent), Sioux City, Iowa, 1914-1918; founder and editor of the Unionist and Public Forum at Sioux City; active in civic matters and labor union and farm affairs, founder of the state Farmer and Labor party in Iowa and served as chaplain of central labor organization while in Kansas City; served as moderator of the Congregational Association of Missouri 1905-1906; member of industrial committee of National Council of Congregational churches of U. S., 1907-1910; mayor of Sioux City 1918-1924; member of Iowa House of Representatives 1931, serving one term as a Republican in the Forty-fourth General Assembly; author of books and magazine articles; survived by his wife, a daughter, Mrs. Emily Vesta Hunter, Sioux City, and two adopted sons, Burton Harrison and John Wallace.