Name: Clarence G. Sholes
Birth Date: 2 Dec 1845
Birth Place: Kenosha, Wisconsin
Death Date: 8 Nov 1926
Death Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Burial Date: 10 Nov 1926
Cemetery Name: Mt Greenwood
Death Age: 80
Occupation: Electrician
Race: White
Marital Status: M
Gender: Male
Father Name: Christopher L. Sholes
Father Birth Place: Groton, Connecticut
Mother Name: Mary McKinney
Mother Birth Place: Bethan, Pennsylvania
Spouse Name: Mary E. Sholes
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Chicago, Nov. 9 -- Clarence G. Sholes, who, as a lad of sixteen, was General Sherman's personal telegraph operator on the famous March to the Sea, is dead at his home here, at the age of 81.
After the Civil War, Mr. Sholes became assistant manager, at Chicago, for the Western Union. He later directed the telegraph service of the Santa Fe railroad. His father was Christopher Latham Sholes, inventor of the typewriter.
- The Quincy Herald Whig, Quincy, Illinois; Tuesday, November 9, 1926; page 12.
Birth Date: 2 Dec 1845
Birth Place: Kenosha, Wisconsin
Death Date: 8 Nov 1926
Death Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Burial Date: 10 Nov 1926
Cemetery Name: Mt Greenwood
Death Age: 80
Occupation: Electrician
Race: White
Marital Status: M
Gender: Male
Father Name: Christopher L. Sholes
Father Birth Place: Groton, Connecticut
Mother Name: Mary McKinney
Mother Birth Place: Bethan, Pennsylvania
Spouse Name: Mary E. Sholes
_____
Chicago, Nov. 9 -- Clarence G. Sholes, who, as a lad of sixteen, was General Sherman's personal telegraph operator on the famous March to the Sea, is dead at his home here, at the age of 81.
After the Civil War, Mr. Sholes became assistant manager, at Chicago, for the Western Union. He later directed the telegraph service of the Santa Fe railroad. His father was Christopher Latham Sholes, inventor of the typewriter.
- The Quincy Herald Whig, Quincy, Illinois; Tuesday, November 9, 1926; page 12.
Name: Clarence G. Sholes
Birth Date: 2 Dec 1845
Birth Place: Kenosha, Wisconsin
Death Date: 8 Nov 1926
Death Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Burial Date: 10 Nov 1926
Cemetery Name: Mt Greenwood
Death Age: 80
Occupation: Electrician
Race: White
Marital Status: M
Gender: Male
Father Name: Christopher L. Sholes
Father Birth Place: Groton, Connecticut
Mother Name: Mary McKinney
Mother Birth Place: Bethan, Pennsylvania
Spouse Name: Mary E. Sholes
_____
Chicago, Nov. 9 -- Clarence G. Sholes, who, as a lad of sixteen, was General Sherman's personal telegraph operator on the famous March to the Sea, is dead at his home here, at the age of 81.
After the Civil War, Mr. Sholes became assistant manager, at Chicago, for the Western Union. He later directed the telegraph service of the Santa Fe railroad. His father was Christopher Latham Sholes, inventor of the typewriter.
- The Quincy Herald Whig, Quincy, Illinois; Tuesday, November 9, 1926; page 12.
Birth Date: 2 Dec 1845
Birth Place: Kenosha, Wisconsin
Death Date: 8 Nov 1926
Death Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Burial Date: 10 Nov 1926
Cemetery Name: Mt Greenwood
Death Age: 80
Occupation: Electrician
Race: White
Marital Status: M
Gender: Male
Father Name: Christopher L. Sholes
Father Birth Place: Groton, Connecticut
Mother Name: Mary McKinney
Mother Birth Place: Bethan, Pennsylvania
Spouse Name: Mary E. Sholes
_____
Chicago, Nov. 9 -- Clarence G. Sholes, who, as a lad of sixteen, was General Sherman's personal telegraph operator on the famous March to the Sea, is dead at his home here, at the age of 81.
After the Civil War, Mr. Sholes became assistant manager, at Chicago, for the Western Union. He later directed the telegraph service of the Santa Fe railroad. His father was Christopher Latham Sholes, inventor of the typewriter.
- The Quincy Herald Whig, Quincy, Illinois; Tuesday, November 9, 1926; page 12.
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