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Ward Stone Ireland (1883-1956) was a court reporter, a businessman, and the inventor of the stenotype

Life
Ward Stone Ireland was born in 1883 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He learned typing and shorthand in his teens. After attending Western Maryland College, Ireland work as a court report in Texas and then as a reporter for the Panama Canal Commission. He returned to Texas in 1900 and began work on a shorthand machine. In 1911 after three previous prototype models, the Universal Stenotype Company was founded and Ireland patented a stenograph machine, the Stenotype. Production began in August 1912 in Owensboro, KY. Mr. Ireland Ireland left the company in 1917 and developed a new stenograph machine, the National Shorthand Machine. He died in 1956 in Newark, New Jersey and is buried in Cocoa, Brevard County, Florida.