[GreenKeys] platten shaft pin

[Jim Haynes]

On Sat, 3 Apr 2021, E. wrote:
>
> Didn’t know about Morton Sterling and Teletype - heck ;o !  The father 
> of Arbor Day - his mansion is just down he highway by one hour at Arbor 
> Lodge in Nebraska City.  Next time I go down there and they have it open 
> for tours (post pandemic), I’m going to be on the lookout for Teletypes 
> ;D ~
>
That's Sterling Morton "the elder" who was father of Arbor Day.  Sterling
Morton "the younger" was his grandson and the president of Teletype.

There's a book "Man of Salt and Trees" a biography of Joy Morton, the
son of Sterling the elder and father of Sterling the younger.  Author
James Ballowe.  Tells about Sterling the elder relocating to Nebraska
City hoping it would grow big (but in fact it was Omaha that grew big).

Joy Morton headed the salt company, and his brother headed Western
Cold Storage.  You could say the family was hedging its bets - salt
was big for preserving pork, and refrigeration for preserving beef.
Charles Krum was an engineer for Western Cold Storage who evaluated
Frank Pearne's proposal for a printing telegraph system and recommended
to Joy that he should back it.  Then Charles' son Howard was educated
as an engineer and pulled into the company, then called Morkrum for
Morton and Krum.  Howard invented the start-stop synchronization scheme
that made printing telegraphy practical for many applications outside
the high-message-volume telegraph industry.