The Short family in the 1900 census, Chicago

Hyde Park Township, ward 34 of Chicago, enumeration district 1086, sheet 18, taken 8 June 1900. Lines 27-32: John G. Short, 52, born in Canada in December 1847, who came over in 1896; his wife Mary P., 47; and their children “Geoffrey” R. (Jeffrey), 19, Mary I., 18, Jennie B. (Jeannie Beatrice), 16, and Ruth E., 7, who came in 1897.