The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 317. T^f^-?-? DENSMOBE, Amos, inventor and promoter,was born in Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 28, 1835. Hewas a son of Joel Densmore, a veteran of the war of1812, a
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 317. T^f^-?-? DENSMOBE, Amos, inventor and promoter,was born in Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 28, 1835. Hewas a son of Joel Densmore, a veteran of the war of1812, and a brother of James Densmore, of type-writer fame. He received his ed-ucation in the public schools andin Alleghany, college, and mar-ried, at the age of twenty-three,Priscilla Compton, a daughter ofHugh Compton, another veteranof the war of 1813. While engagedin the oil regions in Pennsylvaniain 1861, with his brother James,under the firm name of the Dens-more Brothers, and where hemade a fortune, his attention wascalled to the Sholes & Gliddentypewriter, and, with his brotherJames (q. v.), he promptly devot-ed his energies to the a naturally inventivemind, he made many suggestionsand improvements, which, at alater date, culminated in the Dens-more machine. In 1888 he soldout all his interest in the Remington typewriter tohis brother James, and devoted himself to theDensmore. YOST, George Washington Newton,
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