Christopher Latham Sholes to the "rest" position. This concept was later refined by Sholes and the resulting QWERTY layout is still used today on both typewriters and English language computer keyboards, although the jamming problem no longer exists. Sholes died on February 17, 1890 after battling tuberculosis for nine years, and is buried at Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee. Christopher Latham Sholes 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
Latham of Bradwall two sons, Weyland Mere, Philip Arderne, and two daughters, Diana Frances and Mary Grace. Sarah Ormerod was born Sarah Latham in 1784 to Mary Mayer and John Latham (1761-1843). In 1784 John Latham had married Mary Mayer (born January 7, 1756), the daughter of Reverend Peter Mayer of St. Peter’s Church in Prestbury, Cheshire. Sarah Latham was their eldest daughter. She lived the first years of her life in Manchester where her father practiced medicine. At the age of three, she moved to Oxford where John Latham became a physician at the Radcliffe Infirmary. In 1788, the family moved to