Inventors . ctfor his memory. The corporation of the city ofNew York, the different literary institutions andother societies, assembled and passed resolutionsexpressing their estimation of his worth, and re-gret at his loss. They also resolved to attendhis funeral, and that the members should wearbadges of mourning for a certain time. As soonas the Legislature, which was then in session atAlbany, heard of the death of Fulton, they ex-pressed their participation in the general senti-ment by resolving that the members of bothHouses should wear mourning for some weeks. In 1806 Fulton married Harr
Inventors . ctfor his memory. The corporation of the city ofNew York, the different literary institutions andother societies, assembled and passed resolutionsexpressing their estimation of his worth, and re-gret at his loss. They also resolved to attendhis funeral, and that the members should wearbadges of mourning for a certain time. As soonas the Legislature, which was then in session atAlbany, heard of the death of Fulton, they ex-pressed their participation in the general senti-ment by resolving that the members of bothHouses should wear mourning for some weeks. In 1806 Fulton married Harriet Livingston, adaughter of Walter Livingston, a relative of his 68 INVENTORS associate, Chancellor Livingston. He left fourchildren ; one son, Robert Barlow Fulton, andthree daughters. Fulton was in person consid-erably above medium height; his face showedgreat intelligence. Natural refinement and longintercourse with the most polished society ofEurope and America had given him grace andelegance of The Clermont III. • ELI WHITNEY. Ix 1/84 an American vessel arrived at Liver-pool having on board, as part of her cargo, eightbags of cotton, which were seized by the Custom-House under the conviction that they could notbe the growth of America. The whole amountof cotton arriving at Liverpool from Americaduring the two following years was less thanone hundred and twenty bags. When Eli Whit-ney, the inventor of the cotton-gin, applied forhis first patent in 1793, the total export of cottonfrom the United States was less than ten thou-sand bales. Fifty years later, the growth of thisindustry, owing almost wholly to Whitneysgin, had increased to millions of bales, and by1860, the export amounted to four million bales. According to the estimate of Judge Johnson,given in the most famous decision affecting thecotton-gin, the debts of the South were paid offby its aid, its capital was increased, and its landstrebled in value. This famous device, the giftof a young Northerner to
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