Carlos Glidden's Residence at 826 N. Cass St (492 Cass) from 1868-70

Title: Carlos Glidden's Residence at 826 N. Cass St (492 Cass) from 1868-70
Description: Along with Christopher Latham Sholes and Samuel Soule, Carlos Glidden was one of the original collaborators working on the typewriter. Glidden was working on an agricultural spader (an alternative to a traditional plow) at Kleinsteuber's machine shop in 1867, while Sholes and Soule were working there on a machine to automatically number tickets or the pages in booklets. Glidden claimed to have originally suggested the idea of a creating a typewriter to the other two men, and although his later contributions seem to have been minimal, Glidden received one of ten shares in the enterprise after James Densmore backed it financially. As a result of his ownership stake, the first typewriters produced by the Remington Arms Co. in 1873 and sold in 1874 were called the "Sholes and Glidden Type-Writer."

According to the Milwaukee city directory for 1868-1870, Glidden lived at this location during much of the time when he was working on the typewriter, and not far from Sholes's own home on today's Juneau Ave., where Sholes lived until 1868. The current apartment buildings on the site were constructed in 1926.
Date Created: 2024-05-14
Coordinates (Decimal Format): 43.04227998458797, -87.90178218129736
Location (Addresses): City Directory Location: 492 Cass
New Address: 826 N. Cass St.
Creator: Rachel Zembrowski