Old steamboat days on the Hudson River; tales and reminiscences of the stirring times that followed the introduction of steam navigation . ssful steamboat came to bebuilt, Fulton returning to New York in 1806 for thispurpose. Livingston, who thus became Fultons partner in thedevelopment of steam navigation, was one of NewYorks most famous men in the early Colonial was a member of the Continental Congress, oneof the committee that drafted the Declaration of In-dependence, one of the framers of the Constitution ofthe State of New^ York, its first Chancellor, adminis-tered the first Pre
Old steamboat days on the Hudson River; tales and reminiscences of the stirring times that followed the introduction of steam navigation . ssful steamboat came to bebuilt, Fulton returning to New York in 1806 for thispurpose. Livingston, who thus became Fultons partner in thedevelopment of steam navigation, was one of NewYorks most famous men in the early Colonial was a member of the Continental Congress, oneof the committee that drafted the Declaration of In-dependence, one of the framers of the Constitution ofthe State of New^ York, its first Chancellor, adminis-tered the first Presidential oath at Washingtons in-auguration 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 didFebruary 24, 1815, he was buried in the Livingstonvault in Trinity Churchyard, New York City, He lefthis wife, one son and three daughters. For years nomonument marked the grave of tliis distinguished. Robert Fulton From a photojifraph of the ori{i;iiiaI pniiitiii;,^ made in Eiitjlaiul by Heiijainiii West, and now owned by Fultons irrandsou,Robert Fulton Ludlow of (lav<-raek, N. Y. Robert Fulton 9 man. It was not until thirty-one years after Fultonsdeath that Congress voted something like $76,300, with-out interest, to reimburse him for the contracts he heldat the time of his death with the Government for build-ing the Vesuvius and other vessels of war. He was about six feet tall, well proportioned, had aface marked with strong features and dark curly was at all times a gentleman and a most engagingand instructive conversationalist. When at work onone of his projects or inventions he labored with in-domitable industry and knew no discouragement, evenwhen failure confronted him. His faith in himself andhis inventions made him
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