Deseret Evening News | 1908-03-02 | Page 2 | Inventor of First Telephone is Dead

INVENTOR OF FIRST TELEPHONE IS DEAD Minneapolis March 2 In tho death on Sunday In city of ot Dr S f p Cushman It la Is not generally known that there passed away awn the tha man who Invented the first firt telephone telephone his be being InK ing the human voice to over sonda a message over wires and that after e tel In tho th form for of ot a bull frog tro had brought blought to his sense tho fact that such a n thing could be b accomplished Deceased WM SO 9 years of ago Ho He HeWIS was n descendant of o historic Cushmans WIS who to Virginia In Dr was WI associated In tho early carly pioneer days with S p J H U Morse Morl tho discoverer of ot the telegraph Ho wan n 0 worm wan friend of ot Ho Horace race Ilce