What did people in the 1829 use the typewriter for?

The typewriter as we know it was not in use in 1829. The first one that was truely succesful, the Sholes and Glidden, was first produced in 1874. The typewriter was, and still is, used in offices, schools, and homes to type documents, accounting work, letters, just about anything that we use a Word processor or computer writing program for today.