Nicholas Roosevelt (inventor)

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Nicholas Isaac Roosevelt (December 27, 1767, New York City - July 30, 1854, Skaneateles, New York) was an American inventor, a major investor in Upstate New York land, and a member of the Roosevelt family. He and his brother John sold a large tract of land in Oswego County, New York George Scriba in 1793 which is now the Town of Scriba. Nicholas Roosevelt is remembered more as an inventor and for participation with Robert Fulton in their steamboat ventures; in 1811, he built and sailed the New Orleans, the first steamboat on the western rivers, which sailed from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. Nicholas Roosevelt married Lydia Latrobe, daughter of his best friend and business partner, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the distinguished American architect. Lydia was thirteen years old when Nicholas began courting her. They married when she was seventeen, he forty-one years old. Nicholas Roosevelt died at Skaneateles, New York, where he had a home, built in 1831 and extant at 101 East Genesee Street. He was survived by Lydia Latrobe Roosevelt, who died in 1878. Nicholas Roosevelt was a great-grand uncle of President Theodore Roosevelt. Other members of the Roosevelt family resided in the village of Skaneateles, including Frederick Roosevelt, cousin of the president.

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