Was the Typewriter Invented in LeRoy?

LAND BETWEEN THE MARSHES Was the Typewriter Invented in LeRoy? ROB BOWE CONTRIBUTOR Horace Barnes and his wife Phoebe (nee Higgins) were among the earliest people who came to the LeRoy area settling on a 60-acre homestead in the late 1840s in section 14 of the township, approximately one-mile northeast of the Village of LeRoy on Dairy Road. The couple came from Onondaga County, New York.