History of the Mohawk Valley: Gateway to the West 1614-1925 — Sholes-Remington Typewriter Bi-centennial Memorial

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History of the Mohawk Valley: Gateway to the West 1614-1925
Sholes-Remington Typewriter Bi-centennial Memorial

[This information is from Vol. II, p. 1813 of History of the Mohawk Valley: Gateway to the West 1614-1925, edited by Nelson Greene (Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1925). It is in the Schenectady Reference collection of the Schenectady County Public Library at Schdy R 974.7 G81h. This online edition includes lists of portraits, maps and illustrations. As noted by Paul Keesler in his article, "The Much Maligned Mr. Greene," some information in this book has been superseded by later research or was provided incorrectly by local sources.]

Sholes-Remington Typewriter Bi-centennial Memorial

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Photo: Sholes-Remington Typewriter Bi-centennial Memorial

Unveiled at Ilion in 1923, to commemorate the bi-centennial of the construction of the first practical commercial typewirit and its inventor, Christopher Latham Sholes. Left to right the group is: Mr. H. H. Benedict of New York, a Remington director of 1873, who urged Philo Remington to manufacture Sholes' invention; Charles E. Weller of La Porte, Ind., the original man typist: Mrs. Charles L. Fortier of Milwaukee, daughter of Sholes, and the original woman typist; Mrs. C. G. Sholes of Chicago, daughter-in-law of Sholes. Photo by Thompson, Ilion.

History of the Mohawk Valley: Gateway to the West 1614-1925Sholes-Remington Typewriter Bi-centennial Memorial

History of the Mohawk Valley: Gateway to the West 1614-1925
Sholes-Remington Typewriter Bi-centennial Memorial