In 1883, still working as a court reporter, he secured in the United States the first patents for a visible-typing apparatus in which obliquely placed type-bars struck from the front. A tinkerer, but no engineer, he was intrigued enough by the possibilities of typewriting in his profession to attempt design of a machine that would allow the operator to see what was being typed. (The first mass-produced typewriters had been sold in 1874.)īy 1879 Horton had begun work as a reporter (stenographer) in the provincial Court of Appeal in Toronto. The vice-regal party returned via Chicago, where, probably at the Interstate Industrial Exposition Building, Horton may have seen and purchased his first “Type-Writer,” an early Remington model that typed on the hidden underside of the platen. He was working for the Mail in 1876 when he was commissioned to accompany Governor General Lord Dufferin on his trip to British Columbia Horton’s unremarkable reports back to the Mail appeared between August and October. Within five years the family had again relocated, to Toronto, and Edward began work as a reporter with the Globe. By 1865 his father, formerly a dry goods and grocery merchant, had moved to Kingston as a labourer. Until his teenage years Edward Horton lived on Wolfe Island, near Kingston. 1908) in Oakville, Ont., and they had four sons and a daughter d. 27 June 1916 in Toronto. 1847 on Wolfe Island, Upper Canada, eldest child of Orin Horton and Sarah Ross m. HORTON, EDWARD ELIJAH, newspaperman, court reporter, and inventor b.
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