Indiana and Indianans - a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood (1919) (14780082484)

Identifier: indianaindianans03dunn (find matches)
Title: Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Dunn, Jacob Piatt, 1855-1924 Kemper, General William Harrison, 1839-
Subjects: Medicine -- Indiana Indiana -- History Indiana -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago and New York : The American historical society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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elegraph office for over forty yearsat ililwaukee, Wisconsin. Charles E. Weller, youngest son of Rev.Henry Weller, was born in a log housenear Marshall, Michigan, in 1840. He at-tended the rural schools of Calhoun Coun-ty, and at the age of twelve years beganworking in his fathers printing office. Ayear later he became a telegi-aph messen-ger, and while thus employed at LaPortelearned the art of telegraphy. Subse-quently he was assigned to open the rail-road station of the ^Michigan SouthernRailway at Coldwater, Michigan, and forthree years had assignments in the rail-way service at Coldwater, South Bend,White Pigeon and Toledo. His last posi-tion in the railway service was in the officeof Charles )\Iinot, resident manager of theLake Shore and Michigan Southern Rail-way Company at Chicago. In 1858, andfollowing that, he was in the WesternUnion office at jMilwaukee, of which hisbrother, Alfred, was manager. During theCivil war he had charge of the telegraphoffice at Madison, Wisconsin.
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UldCtXtZ^^ Jj?hcuyuj24. INDIANA AND INDIANANS 1389 111 the meantime, as early as 1862. ^Ir.Weller had begun to learn the Pitmansystem of phonography or shorthand, andstudied and practiced constantly with aview to becoming a law reporter. In 1867,resigning his work with the Western UnionCompany, he went to St. Louis and tookwith him what is claimed to be the tirstpractical typewriter ever constructed. HeWPS ;in intimate friend of its inventor,.Christopher Sholes of Milwaukee. At St.Louis he became a court reporter, andafterwards with his son established thefirm of Weller & Weller, law stenogra-phers, and continued his professional workthere until 1914. In that year Mr. Wellerwas elected secretary of the National Short-hand Reporters Association, and at onceselected LaPorte as his headquarters. In 1866 ilr. Weller married IMiss Mar-garet A. Watkins, a native of Philadelphiaand a daughter of William Watkins, anative of Wales. Mrs. Weller died in1911. She was the mother of two sons,Wi