Show OF OP F KU KENTUCKY KUT The Th T Name Connected Wit With the te Early Ealy History of the State State Louisville Courier Journal Joural In addition additon to President connection c with wIl Kentucky Kentuck through his history The Winning of ot the West which struggle of her plo pio pioneers meets neer in wresting the territory west of ofte the te Alleghenies from the Indians his family name is prominently connected with of the te most important lh one mot events In Its It development development It was his great get I uncle Nicholas Nichols J Roosevelt who in connection with wih Fulton and R B R R R t Liv Livingston I ingston of New York built buit the te New I Orleans Olens at itt Pittsburg the first steam steamboat steamboat steamboat boat which navigated the western estern wa waters wa tota ter Captain Captin Roosevelt commanded it i when in December 1811 it I In Louisville and made the trip from fro iro Pittsburg pitsburg to t New Orleans in fourteen days He was wa the inventor of ot the ver vertical vertical steamboat wheel eel as a admitted by y Fulton Fulon in litigation It attending his bia claim for or a n patent |