Old steamboat days on the Hudson River; tales and reminiscences of the stirring times that followed the introduction of steam navigation (1907)
Buckman, David Lear · New York : The Grafton press · leaf 28
ration in New York City and while Minister toFrance and experimenting with Fulton on steamboats,negotiated the purchase of Louisiana from Napoleon. He and Fulton became fast friends. Fulton marriedHarriett, daughter of Walter Livingston, a relative ofthe Chancellors, and when he came to die as he… … RoBEET Fulton From a photograph of the original painting made in England about1795 by Benjamin West, and now owned by Fultons grandson,Robert Fulton Ludlow of Claverack, N. Y. Robert Fulton 9 man. It was not until thirty-one years after Fultonsdeath that Congress voted something like $76,300,…
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