Elias Molee


Elias Molee was an American journalist, philologist and linguist.

Background

Elias Molee was born in Muskego, Wisconsin, the son of John Evenson Molie and Anne Jacobson Einong. The original spelling of the family name was Molie. His father emigrated from Tinn in the province of Telemark, Norway in 1839 and was an early farmer in Muskego.
in 1906, while publishing his second book on teutonish, he lived in Tacoma, Washington.

Career

Elias Molee is known as the creator of the language Tutonish. He also invented a system of shorthand and used only lower case letters and a form of sign language symbols. In his autobiography molee's wandering he describes an idyllic childhood spent listening to tales of Norse mythology in his family's log cabin, eating "good pancakes with milk in e dough n much egg n butter in it," and roaming the fields picking fresh berries, plums and nuts with the local children.

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