Monument to Christopher Latham Sholes

Perhaps no inventor did more than Milwaukee’s own Christopher Latham Sholes to engineer the modern typewriter. Among other innovations, Sholes designed the QWERTY keyboard layout that we (for the most part) still use. In honor of the state rep, newspaper editor and Lincoln appointee, who died in 1890, a pale monument watches over his grave on the western end of the massive and winding Forest Home Cemetery (2405 W. Forest Home Ave.).