Emma lost her sister Mary, brother John and father Francis within months of each other in 1876. She was married to Benjamin Moore in 1881. Emma Ratts Moore founded the Carbondale Shorthand Institute in 1888 after her husband city attorney Benjamin W. Moore was killed. Before her marriage she had been a teacher.
In Lethem's 1894 business summary the school is praised for it's excellence in training me and women for business careers. It was also stated that Mrs. Moore was prepared to "fill vacancies for typists and stenographers on short notice." The school also offered custom work, including copying briefs and other legal documents, as well as commercial papers.
Mrs. Moore left Carbondale around 1910 to live in the home of her brother William Ratts and his wife Charlotte back in her hometown of Charlestown, Indiana, where she died in 1914. Years later she was honored by the Carbondale Women's Club as one of the first Carbondale businesswomen--"the first woman stenographer".
In Lethem's 1894 business summary the school is praised for it's excellence in training me and women for business careers. It was also stated that Mrs. Moore was prepared to "fill vacancies for typists and stenographers on short notice." The school also offered custom work, including copying briefs and other legal documents, as well as commercial papers.
Mrs. Moore left Carbondale around 1910 to live in the home of her brother William Ratts and his wife Charlotte back in her hometown of Charlestown, Indiana, where she died in 1914. Years later she was honored by the Carbondale Women's Club as one of the first Carbondale businesswomen--"the first woman stenographer".
Emma lost her sister Mary, brother John and father Francis within months of each other in 1876. She was married to Benjamin Moore in 1881. Emma Ratts Moore founded the Carbondale Shorthand Institute in 1888 after her husband city attorney Benjamin W. Moore was killed. Before her marriage she had been a teacher.
In Lethem's 1894 business summary the school is praised for it's excellence in training me and women for business careers. It was also stated that Mrs. Moore was prepared to "fill vacancies for typists and stenographers on short notice." The school also offered custom work, including copying briefs and other legal documents, as well as commercial papers.
Mrs. Moore left Carbondale around 1910 to live in the home of her brother William Ratts and his wife Charlotte back in her hometown of Charlestown, Indiana, where she died in 1914. Years later she was honored by the Carbondale Women's Club as one of the first Carbondale businesswomen--"the first woman stenographer".
In Lethem's 1894 business summary the school is praised for it's excellence in training me and women for business careers. It was also stated that Mrs. Moore was prepared to "fill vacancies for typists and stenographers on short notice." The school also offered custom work, including copying briefs and other legal documents, as well as commercial papers.
Mrs. Moore left Carbondale around 1910 to live in the home of her brother William Ratts and his wife Charlotte back in her hometown of Charlestown, Indiana, where she died in 1914. Years later she was honored by the Carbondale Women's Club as one of the first Carbondale businesswomen--"the first woman stenographer".
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