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 . n along journey, to be printed. Atthe age of twenty he went toMadison and took charge of theWisconsin Inquirer, owned byhis brother Charles, and in 1840,at the age of twenty-one, e
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 . n along journey, to be printed. Atthe age of twenty he went toMadison and took charge of theWisconsin Inquirer, owned byhis brother Charles, and in 1840,at the age of twenty-one, editedthe Southport, afterward Ke-nosha, Telegraph, and fouryears later became the postmas-ter, receiving his appointmentfrom President Polk. Later,during his residence in Milwau-kee, he was postmaster, and filledwith credit the positions of com-missioner of public works andcollector of customs. He was for a long time theeditor of the Sentinel, and the News, which ata later date was absorbed into the Sentinel. Itwas while he was collector of customs in 1866, thathe became interested with an old friend, Soule, inmaking a machine for consecutive numbering, espe-cially on bank-notes and on the pages of blank books,when his attention was directed to an article, pub-lished in an English journal, regarding writing bymechanism, and devised by John Pratt. With aquick intuition he saw the possibilities of a revolution. 316 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPAEDIA in the handling of the pen. From that moment hedevoted his whole time and thought to the ideawhich has given to the world the typewriter. Thiswonderful creation is the result of his inventive gen-ius. In 1867 the first crude instrument was Densmore became interested, and in 1873 theinvention was so far perfected as to warrant the pro-duction of machines on an enlarged scale. The Rem-ington factory at Ilion, N. Y., was selected, andmanufacture begun. The world has felt the a long time the financial returns were small, and
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