Elizabeth Margaret Vater Longley

British journalist, suffragist and typing innovator (1830–1912)

Elizabeth Margaret Vater Longley (née Vater; 1830–1912) was a British-American journalist, suffragist, and innovator in typing.

Elizabeth Margaret Vater Longley was born in England in 1830.^[1] During her childhood, she emigrated to the United States with her family. Elizabeth Vater married Elias Longley in 1847. At the time, they lived in a Cincinnati utopian community. Elias Longley was a stenographic reporter, advocate of phonetic spelling, and ran a publishing company.^[2]

Longley was an early adopter of the mechanical typewriter. She invented an early type of touch typing called the "All-Finger method," which used eight fingers on home keys. She had presented this method by August 1882.^[3]^[4]

Longley worked as the editor of the Dayton Women's Advocate in 1859.^[2] Longley became a member of the executive committee of the National Women's Suffrage Association and vice president of the Ohio association.^[2]

In 1885, the Longleys moved to California. In the 1890s, Margaret ran the Los Angeles Campaign Committee for a referendum on suffrage.^[2]

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↑ "She Has Always Exercised and Enjoyed Those Rights". Pioneers, Preachers, & Privateers. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
1 2 3 4 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1997). The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-2318-7.
↑ Quora. "Why Was The QWERTY Keyboard Layout Invented?". Forbes. Retrieved June 30, 2025.
↑ Ackermann, Marsha E. (September 17, 2014). How Do You Spell Ruzevelt?. Archway Publishing. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-4808-1092-1.

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