Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Inventor of the Typewriter Grave
The headstone is not shaped like a typewriter, alas. Eternal QWERTY, no return.
Forest Home Cemetery
- Address:
- 2405 West Forest Home Ave., Milwaukee, WI
- Directions:
- Forest Home Cemetery. Section 10, block 3. Park by the Gazebo.
- Hours:
- Gates open dawn-dusk. Local health policies may affect hours and access.
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Park by the gazebo -- by section 10 at the top of hill is the plot for Christopher Latham Sholes.
[Kelly Soprych, 06/22/2020]
Can be a little hard to find, as the markers aren't very clear. Actually in site 10. Beautiful monument.
[Lauren, 05/29/2015]
The grave of Christopher Sholesis is in Section 18, block 3.
[R Conner, 05/28/2012]The grave of Christopher Sholes, 1819-1890, "Father of the American Typewriter." He got his patent in 1868, and came up with the wacky QWERTY keyboard arrangement still in use today!
The gravestone isn't shaped like a typewriter, though...too bad.
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