Elizabeth Margaret Vater Longley
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Elizabeth Margaret Vater Longley (née Elizabeth Margaret Vater; 1831-1912) was a journalist, suffragist, and innovator in typing.
Biography
[edit]Elizabeth Vater married Elias Longley in 1847. At the time, they lived in a Cincinnati utopian community. Elias Longley was a stenographic reporter, advocate of phonetic spelling, and ran a publishing company.[1]
Longley was an early adopter of the mechanical typewriter. She invented an early type of touch typing, the "All-Finger method," which used eight fingers on home keys. She presented this method by August, 1882.[2][3]
Longley worked as the editor of the Dayton Women's Advocate in 1859.[1] Longley became a member of the executive committee of the National Women's Suffrage Association. She became vice president of the Ohio association.[1]
In 1885, the Longleys moved to California. In the 1890s, Margaret ran the Los Angeles Campaign Committee for a referendum on suffrage.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1997). The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-2318-7.
- ^ Quora. "Why Was The QWERTY Keyboard Layout Invented?". Forbes. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ^ Ackermann, Marsha E. (2014-09-17). How Do You Spell Ruzevelt?. Archway Publishing. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-4808-1092-1.