<Tr> <Th> Known for </Th> <Td> "The Father of the typewriter," inventor of the QWERTY keyboard </Td> </Tr> <P> Christopher Latham Sholes (February 14, 1819--February 17, 1890) was an American inventor who invented the QWERTY keyboard, and along with Samuel W. Soule, Carlos Glidden and John Pratt, has been contended as one of the inventors of the first typewriter in the United States . He was also a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin politician . </P> <P> Born in Mooresburg, in Montour County, Pennsylvania, Sholes moved to nearby Danville and worked there as an apprentice to a printer . After completing his apprenticeship, Sholes moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1837, and later to Southport, Wisconsin (present - day Kenosha). He became a newspaper publisher and politician, serving in the Wisconsin State Senate from 1848 to 1849 as a Democrat, in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1852 to 1853 as a Free Soiler, and again in the Senate as a Republican from 1856 to 1857 . He was instrumental in the successful movement to abolish capital punishment in Wisconsin; his newspaper, The Kenosha Telegraph, reported on the trial of John McCaffary in 1851, and then in 1853 he led the campaign in the Wisconsin State Assembly . He was the younger brother of Charles Sholes (1816--1867), who was also a newspaper publisher and politician who served in both houses of the Wisconsin State Legislature and as mayor of Kenosha . </P> <P> In 1845, Sholes was working as editor of the Southport Telegraph, a small newspaper in Kenosha, Wisconsin . During this time he heard about the alleged discovery of the Voree Record, a set of three minuscule brass plates unearthed by James J. Strang, a would - be successor to Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement . Strang asserted that this proved that he was a true prophet of God, and he invited the public to call upon him and see the plates for themselves . Sholes accordingly visited Strang, examined his "Voree Record," and wrote an article about their meeting . He indicated that while he could not accept Strang's plates or his prophetic claims, Strang himself seemed to be "honest and earnest" and his disciples were "among the most honest and intelligent men in the neighborhood ." As for the "record" itself, Sholes indicated that he was "content to have no opinion about it ." </P>

Who invented the keyboard and in which year