. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. ISAAC PITMAN. ?ySAAC PITMAN, distinguished asthe inventor of the system of\ phonography, or short-handwriting,was born at Trowbridge, England
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. ISAAC PITMAN. ?ySAAC PITMAN, distinguished asthe inventor of the system of\ phonography, or short-handwriting,was born at Trowbridge, England, in1813. His education was completedat the normal British school, in Lon-don, and after leaving that institutionhe was employed in several differentschools as principal. As early as 1768Franklin had suggested a system ofjihonography. Mr. Pitman inventedhis system in 1837, and in 1843 thePhonetic society, whose object was • to render our method of writing and printing more in accordancewith sound, was established, with Mr. Pitman as first book was entitled Stenographic Sound Hand. Estab-lishing a printing-office at Bath, England, he printed a weekly papercalled the Phonetic Journal^ several manuals relating to short-handwriting, and the Bible and other books in phonetic Amherst college from 1825 to 1845, and pret^idont of that institutionfrom 1845 to 1854, retaining the chair of natural theology until hisdeath, in 1804. In 183U he was appointed State geologist of Massa-chusetts, in 1836 of the first district of New York, and in 1857 ofVermont. He was also a member of the Massachusetts State boardof agriculture, and in 1850 was commissioned by the State govern-ment to investigate the agricultural schools in Europe. His mostimportant writings are those which relate very fully to the geologyand fossil remains of his native State and of the Connecticut valley,although he wrote more than twenty volumes concerning geology,temperance, diet, etc. His last wor
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