Robert Fulton

								


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                     TRUE STORIES OF GREAT AMERICANS



                              ROBERT FULTON



                             THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

                  NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS

                         ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO



                        MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED

                       LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA

                                MELBOURNE



                    THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.

                                 TORONTO

ROBERT FULTON



                                   BY

                          ALICE CRARY SUTCLIFFE



                  GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER OF ROBERT FULTON

              AUTHOR OF “ROBERT FULTON AND THE CLERMONT”

                 AND “THE HOMESTEAD OF A COLONIAL DAME”



                                New York

                          THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

                                  1925

                          All rights reserved



                 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA



                            COPYRIGHT, 1915,

                        BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.



        Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1915. Reprinted

                              August, 1925.



                              Norwood Press

                  J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.

                         Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

PREFACE

On board the fine passenger boat, Robert Fulton, one of the several
queen steamers of the Hudson River Day Line, on a May morning when
the beauty of the incomparable river spread in calm perfection before
contented eyes, a great-granddaughter of Robert Fulton began to write,
for young readers, this story of the steamboat inventor’s life.
No “Hero of America” may lay more just claim to the title than Robert
Fulton, the fearless, persistent lad of Pennsylvania. His boyhood of
stern self-denial, his struggle for culture and advanced education, and
his constant industry place him in “the rank and file” of all students
who may read this book with the desire to learn his secret of success.
Fulton’s story reveals it. He solved problems locked from the knowledge
of man by a faithful use of the key of hard work. Born on a lonely
farm in the country, deprived in early childhood of his father’s loving
care, he earned his own living and carved his path to fame and fortune.
Therefore his progress is typical of possible similar achievements for
all young Americans who wish to render good service to their country and
to their fellow-men.
In writing the story of a man whose work for the world has won fame,