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Benjamin Pitman

United states stenographer and crafts promoter (1822-1910) · Writers · Died at 88

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Benjamin Pitman, also known as Benn Pitman, was an English-born author and popularizer in the United States of Pitman shorthand, a form of what was then called phonography (shorthand). He was also active in the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States.

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A shorthand example in the system used by Benn Pitman. Transcription: “For the third time the Congress of the United States are assembled to commemorate the life and the death of a president slain by the hand of an assassin. The attention of the future historian will be attracted to the features which reappear with startling sameness in all three of these awful crimes; the uselessness, the utter lack of consequence of the act; the obscurity, the insignificance of the criminal; the blamelessness - so far as in our sphere of existence the best of men may be held blameless - of the victim.”

A shorthand example in the system used by Benn Pitman. Transcription: “For the third time the Congress of the United States are assembled to commemorate the life and the death of a president slain by the hand of an assassin. The attention of the future historian will be attracted to the features which reappear with startling sameness in all three of these awful crimes; the uselessness, the utter lack of consequence of the act; the obscurity, the insignificance of the criminal; the blamelessness - so far as in our sphere of existence the best of men may be held blameless - of the victim.”

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Lived 1822 to 1910 · aged 88

Writers born in the 1820s 6

Leopold Prowe35.7

William Thomas Pritchard35.5

Emil zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg35.9

Giuseppina Turrisi Colonna35.5

Rangalal Bandyopadhyay35.9

Thomas Stephens35.5

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