The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-02-20
HON. C. LIS nOLES DEAD.
One of Wis consin's Oldest
Ed itorS.
The Founder of This Paper.
A Member of the LEGISLATURE, a Col
lector of Customs, a Post
Master and al Commissioner
of Public Works.

1t has seldom beco me our duty to record
the death of so wort by and so highly dis
tinguished a citizen as that of Mr.. c.. L.
Sholes, the founder d this paper, who died
in Milwaukee Mond lay morning, the 18th
inst. Every resident in this county years
ago knew Mr.. Shole$ either personally or
by reputation and tn bse who knew him are
certain to remember him. The Milwaukee
Sentinel of Tuesday g hve quite satisfactory
sketch of his life. The more interesting
parts of that article are given here.
After an illness of nearly fourteen years,
Christopher Latham Sholes, one of the
early settlers of Wis consin, one of the ear
Hest of Western ne wspaper men, a State
Senator, member Of the assembly, a form
er collector OF this pert, postmaster at
Kenosha and at Milwaukee, member of
the Board of Public Works of this city, and
the inventor of the first successful type
writer, died at his residence 833 Racine
street, yesterday morning For three or
four years Mr.. Sholds was unable to leave
his bed but in that t me he perfected new
typewriting machine. His disease was
slow consumption, I'D which he had spent
some time in Coloraf o and Florida. For
several weeks he had been sinking and his
death was expected alt any time.
AN INTEREs TING CAREER.
Mr.. Sholes is best known as the inventor
of the Remington Typewriter, although the
early residents of Wisconsin have Known
him as man of UNUSUAL education and as
singuIarly devoted to every idea for the hui
manization of the wo rid. His secluded life
favored the growth Fof such ideas, and he
was perhaps the most hopeful of men in re-
gard to the realizatiP n of such dreams as
those of Mr.. Bellamy He was born Feb.
Ia, 1919, ia Columbia county, Pa, and was
IL years and a few days old at his death.
His ancestors were New Englanders, and
and served with dist hction in the Revolu-
tionary army, and h is grandmother was n
descendant of John A lden. When only IA
years DID, Mr.. Sholes was apprenticed to
the editor of the Dan vile (Pa. InteLJjgeucer
to learn the printing business. La May,
1867, he followed h is brother, Charles G.
Sholes, y ell known il the early politics Of
Wisconsin, to Green Bay. where they con-
Quoted newspaper. In 1888, when only
10, Mr. Sholes took charge of the house
journal of the territorial legislature and
carried it to Philade phla to be printed In
1889 he went to Madison and took charge
Of the Wisconsin Inquirer, owned by his
brother Charles, and in 1910, when Il years
old, he went to Keno sha, where, with Col.
Frank, he edited the Southport Telegraph
(now Kenosha TELEd RAPH-CoURIER) At
Kenosha Mr.. Sholes served as Postmaster,
and he was afterwaF d Postmaster of Mil
Waukee.
WITNESSED A NOTABLE TRAGEDY.
In 1848 and 1849 he was a State Senator
from Racine county, and in 1856 and 1857
he was State Senator from Kenosha
county. In 1923 h e represented Kenosha
in the Assembly. 1t was while he was a
member of the coun Gil that he witnessed
the tragedy made ia miliar to the world IN
Dickens american Notes.-The shooting
of Charles G. P. ArnHt of Green Bay, by
James r. Vineyard, pf Grant county, both
members of the coundiI. The account given
by Dickens was taken from the Southport
TcIeqaph, Mr.. SholeB' paper. 1t is about
thirty wears since Mr.. Sholes came to Mil
waukee, and until he was attacked by con-
sumption he held nahy positions Of public
trust shaving been pP postmaster, collector of
customs, commissioner of public works and
editor of the Sentinel and of the Milwaukee
News consolidated with the Sentinel eight
wears ago). He resig med from the Board Of
Public Works in order to seek relief from
disease in Colorado
MR., SHOLES' POLITICAL BELIEFS.
Although always interested in politics,
Mr.. Sholes was never q strictly party man.
He was raised Dem pcrat. but in l848 he
Joined in the Free Soil movement. He was
a strong Abolitionist. He joined the Re
publican party on its organization and acted
with it until the Libe fal movement of 1872.
His sympathy was with the Greenback
party more because of its principle of GEN.
tralization than beca use Of its Immediate
purpose. and in late y ears he was strongly
disposed in favor Of tlA Labor party.
known and liked BY all the old citizens
of Wisconsin. Mr.. Sholes' most intimate
friend was Mr.. q. G. Simmons, of Kenosha.
He leaves family df six sons and four
daughters, Mrs ShoEes having died less
than two years ago. Mr.. Sholes was re-
as delightful conversationalist.
His mind was active until few days be-
fore his death.