 Complete the following phrase:  Robert Short was born on March 31, 1823, to James and Eleanor née McFarland Short in Fairview, Pennsylvania. After apprenticing as a tailor he worked in Delaware and Gallion, Ohio before entering Ohio Wesleyan University in 1841. He left college the next year and was a school teacher from 1843 to 1844, before returning to tailoring in 1845 in Illinois. Short then worked as a farmhand in 1846 before heading west to the then Oregon Country in 1847 with Joel Palmer and Joseph C. Geer. Settling in Oregon City, he opened a tailoring shop before heading south to the gold mines of 