This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#155012) Re: Captains from Clinton <http://www.iagenweb.org/boards/clinton/queries/index.cgi?rev=155012> AUTHOR: georgeann mcclu DATE: 4/28/2007 at 22:51:29 Reply To: (#155010) Re: Captains from Clinton Author: georgeann mcclu Date: 4/28/2007 at 22:11:48 Surnames: DUNCAN,MCMANN,SHORT The Log of Harry G. Dyer: Steamboatman, Upper Mississippi, 1881-1902 Excerpts from Upper Mississippi River Rafting Steamboats Edward G. Mueller, Ohio University Press, 1995 this is where I found the reference to the five short brothers. On line georgeann I remember now reading somewhere that Ira Short was called Windy because he never spoke. Now where did I read that ?