Christopher Latham Sholes 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 typewriter in the United States. He was also a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin politician. Born in Mooresburg, in Montour County, Pennsylvania, Sholes moved to nearby Danville and worked there as an apprentice to a printer. After completing his apprenticeship, Sholes moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1837, and later to Southport, Wisconsin (present-day Kenosha). He became a
Latham, Kansas Latham, Kansas Latham is a city in Butler County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 139. Latham was laid out in 1885. It may have been named for Latham Young, a railroad official. A post office was opened in Bodock (an extinct town) in 1883, but it was moved to Latham in 1885. The first newspaper in Latham was founded in 1901. Latham is located at (37.535363, -96.641781). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. As of the census of 2010, there