. Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography ... culative 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 apublie , but luB latJtD fi f^rUat buai:ness man extended to all parts of the founded the Armour Institute at Chi-cago and also contributed largely to benevo-lent and charitable institutions. ROBERT FULTON.—Al
. Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography ... culative 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 apublie , but luB latJtD fi f^rUat buai:ness man extended 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 atLittle Britain, Lancaster county, Pennsy! !.,. - :v; /. ,. ?>?:, »;?I ?. :?/) 0 .?: !•: .. - ?] .??in! u. ;;.,? -ii ?? h yl .«3 .III ->.?;:.. .,.;K0 .M i:*!*.,^ r .• C ^ ^. I ?^. l-y ;(•,.. 1-. , ...i (.it)/ , ; !v. .?;>-: u .; 1 ;i/: V-- ,i ?• !!• v5t,>M*(i,:. COMPENDIUM or BJOGRy\P!ir. 05 , in 1765, of Scotch-Irish the a^cof seventeen lie removed to Phila-delphia, and there and in New York en-.;icd in miniature paintin;; wjlh successboth from a pecuniary and artistic point ofview. With the resnlts of his lahcjrs he piir-:!iased a farm for the support of his mother,lie went to London and studied under the?reat painter, Dcnjamin West, and alltiirough life retained his fondness for artand gave evidence of much ability in thatline. While in England he was brought incontact with the Duke of Britlgewatcr. thefather of the English canal system; LordStanhope, an eminent mechanician, andlames \\att, the inventor of the steam en-Iirie. Their intluence 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 his
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