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Bess Lenkard 1888 - 1976

Bess Lenkard of Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia was born on January 29, 1888, and died at age 88 years old in October 1976.

Bess Lenkard
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Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia 26003
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January 29, 1888
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Updated: October 7, 2011
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In 1888, in the year that Bess Lenkard was born, on July 25th, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City - Frank Edward McGurrin - decisively beat the competition in a typing contest in Ohio. He was supposedly the only person who used touch typing and is believed to have invented the method. Touch typing is ubiquitous now - but Frank's win is what convinced everyone that the method was good!
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In 1920, at the age of 32 years old, Bess was alive when on November 2, radio station KDKA began broadcasting in Pittsburgh, PA. This was the first commercial radio broadcast in the United States. Westinghouse, a leading manufacturer of radios and the backer of the station, chose the date because of the Presidential election. People liked it because they could hear about the results of the election between Harding and Cox before the morning papers arrived. Four years later, there were 600 commercial stations broadcasting in the U.S.
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