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Nicholas Roosevelt

American businessman

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history of steamboats

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    In ship: Fulton’s steamboat

    Fulton, Livingston, and their associate Nicholas Roosevelt had a copy of their Hudson River boats built in Pittsburgh as the New Orleans. In September 1811 it set sail down the Ohio River, making an easy voyage as far as Louisville, but, as a deep-draft estuarine boat, it had to wait…

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