Schwartz grew up in Toms River, New Jersey, the son of a typewriter salesman.

Born in Kansas City, Mo., William Drennon Kimpton was a graduate of Northwestern University and first worked as a typewriter salesman for I.B.M. in Chicago.

Mr. Manton was recalled not only as a congressman and political leader, but also as a onetime police office and a typewriter salesman who went on to college and law school.

Later, he worked as a typewriter salesman for the Remington Typewriter Company, which allowed him to tour several parts of India.

He began work as a typewriter salesman in his home town of Dewsbury, but he swapped that career to use them instead, joining a local newspaper and reporting on rugby league matches.

(An alternative story suggests that the top line of the keyboard was arranged to enable typewriter salesman to find the word 'typewriter' easily.)

The son of rural Irish immigrants, Mr. Manton worked as a police officer and a typewriter salesman while he finished college and law school.

In his early years he worked as a typewriter salesman, later travelling widely in Europe and the Americas for his work.

The story of P. hubrichtis naming began in 1956 with a typewriter salesman, Leslie Hubricht, who also collected and studied land snails.

Her father hailed from Pennsylvania and supported his family as a day laborer and later as a typewriter salesman.