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unusual facts about stenographer



Evelene Brodstone

Beginning as a stenographer for the Vestey Cold Storage Company in Chicago, Illinois, she rose through the ranks to become the chief auditor and troubleshooter for Vestey Brothers.

Heinrich Borgmann

Generalmajor Rudolf Schmundt and Oberstleutnant Heinz Brandt who were standing to his left and stenographer Heinich Berger to his right were all killed by the explosion, but Borgmann survived with serious injuries.

Irma Clark-Coleman

Beginning in 1967, Clark-Coleman held a variety of positions in Wayne County government; starting as a stenographer, and eventually serving as Assistant Director for Public Information to the county Road Commission, Media Relations Manager for Wayne County Executive William Lucas, Press Secretary to County Executive Ed McNamara and Director of Human Relations.

J. J. Goodwin

Josiah John Goodwin (20 September 1870 – 2 June 1898) was a British stenographer and a disciple of Indian philosopher Swami Vivekananda.

Jean-Baptiste Estoup

Jean-Baptiste Estoup (16 January 1868, Navenne – 17 April 1950, Paris) was a French stenographer and writer on stenography.

Matilda Landsman

In the past she had worked as a stenographer in the Times news and Sunday departments, and as a secretary to Joseph Fels Barnes, editor of the defunct New York Star, the brief-lived successor to the progressive/left daily newspaper PM.

Pauline Hopkins

Hopkins spent the remainder of her years working as a stenographer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Richard H. Geoghegan

Meanwhile he unsuccessfully sought a position as professor of Chinese language at the University of Washington in Seattle, and the early days of 1903 he accepted an invitation by the well-known judge James Wickersham to come to Alaska as a court stenographer.

The Pinkerton Labor Spy

The author of the book, Morris Friedman, had worked in the agency as Mr. McParland's stenographer.

Theodor von Heldreich

With Sofia he had two daughters, Karolina, who married Gangolf von Kieseritzky, Curator of Antiquities at the Imperial Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and Ioanna, who married Mark Mindler, attorney and head of the stenographer’s office of the Greek Parliament.

Touch typing

Frank Edward McGurrin, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City, Utah who taught typing classes, reportedly invented touch typing in 1888.

Frank Edward McGurrin, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City who taught typing classes, reportedly invented touch typing.


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