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 20
ry, however, named Robert Ful-ton, who settled in Philadelphia and there marriedMary Smith, a native of that city. Most of his earlyeducation was received in a school at Lancaster, Pa.,where the family had removed, presided over by a dig-nified Quaker. Fulton was not an apt pupil. Whennot busy with… … H i »«■ -T- tW 9- ^w ■ h^ -= \rht £ a s a oj.s £ be 5 >? z 3 t- c >< * C y «S y. c ^ ■f. ? P .2^ -* ^■^ t- r y. X > — %^ M ^ U 0) ■5] is t g1 Robert Fulton 3 traction for him and some of his suggestions were evenadopted by the workmen. While a boy Fulton madesky rockets for his own…
Steam-navigation -- Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)
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