Member of the Wisconsin Senate from the 8th district
In office January 7, 1856 – January 4, 1858
Preceded by
Francis Paddock
Succeeded by
Samuel R. McClellan
Member of the Wisconsin Senate from the 16th district
In office June 5, 1848 – January 7, 1850
Preceded by
Position Established
Succeeded by
Elijah Steele
Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the Kenosha 1st district
In office January 5, 1852 – January 2, 1854
Preceded by
Henry Johnson
Succeeded by
Samuel Hale Jr.
Personal details
Born
Christopher Latham Sholes
(1819-02-14)February 14, 1819 Mooresburg, Penn., U.S.
Died
February 17, 1890(1890-02-17) (aged 71) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Resting place
Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin[1]
Political party
Republican
Free Soil (before 1856)
Democratic (before 1849)
Spouse
Mary Jane McKinney (died 1888)
Children
Charles Latham Sholes
(1843–1902)
Clarence Gordon Sholes
(1845–1926)
Mary Katherine (Tyrrell)
(1847–1896)
Frederick Sholes
(1847–1933)
Louis C. Sholes
(1849–1914)
Elizabeth (Gilmore)
(1852–1937)
Lillian (Fortier)
(1856–1941)
George Orrin Sholes
(1859–1894)
Jessie Sholes
(1861–1898)
Zalmon Gilbert Sholes
(1864–1917)
Parents
Orrin Sholes (father)
Catherine (Cook) Sholes (mother)
Relatives
Charles Sholes (brother)
Occupation
Printer, inventor, legislator
Known for
"The Father of the typewriter,"[1] inventor of the QWERTY keyboard
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Christopher Latham Sholes (February 14, 1819 – February 17, 1890) was an American inventor who invented the QWERTY keyboard,[2] and, along with Samuel W. Soule, Carlos Glidden and John Pratt, has been contended to be one of the inventors of the first typewriter in the United States.[3][4][5] He was also a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin politician. In his time, Sholes went by the names C. Latham Sholes, Latham Sholes, or C. L. Sholes, but never "Christopher Sholes" or "Christopher L. Sholes".
^ abWeller 1918.
^"Early Typewriter History"
^Larson 2004.
^Hendrickson 1956.
^Anonymous 2012.
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