A biographical record of Schuyler County, New York . speculative deals in pork andgrain of immense proportions and also erectedmany large warehouses for the storage ofgrain. He became one of the representativebusiness men of Chicago, where he becameclosely identified with all enterprises of apublic nature, but his fame as a great busi-ness man to all parts of the founded the Armour Institute at Chi-cago and also contributed largely to benevo-lent and charitable institutions. ROBERT FULTON.—Although Fultonis best known as the inventor of thefirst successful steamboat, yet his
A biographical record of Schuyler County, New York . speculative deals in pork andgrain of immense proportions and also erectedmany large warehouses for the storage ofgrain. He became one of the representativebusiness men of Chicago, where he becameclosely identified with all enterprises of apublic nature, but his fame as a great busi-ness man to all parts of the founded the Armour Institute at Chi-cago and also contributed largely to benevo-lent and charitable institutions. ROBERT FULTON.—Although Fultonis best known as the inventor of thefirst successful steamboat, yet his claims todistinction do not rest alone upon that, forhe was an inventor along other lines, apainter and an author. He was born atLilile Britain, Lancaster count\, Pennsyl. COMPENDIUM Or BIOGRAPJ/r 65 vania, in 1765, of Scotch-Irish ancestrj\At the age of seventeen he removed to Phila-delphia, and there and in New York en-gaged in miniature painting with successboth from a pecuniary and artistic point ofview. \\ith the results of his labors he pur-chased a farm for the support of his went to London and studied under thegreat painter, Benjamin West, and allthrough life retained his fondness for artand gave evidence of much ability in thatline. While in England he was brought incontact with the Duke of Bridgewater, thefather of the English canal system; LordStanhope, an eminent mechanician, andJames Watt, the inventor of the steam en-gine. Their influence turned his mind to itstrue field of labor, that of mechanical in-vention. Machines for flax spinning,marble sawing, rope making, and for remov-ing earth from excavations, are among hisearliest ventures. His Treatise on theImprovement of Canal Navigation, issuedin 1796, and a series of essays on
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