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Article: "New-York Tribune . . . For Fulton Monument." Re: elections of officers for the Robert Fulton Memorial Association.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06343.278 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Document Date: 1906/05/30 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 36 cm, Width: 25 cm Order a Copy

Executive committee includes, among others: W.H. Fletcher, John Jacob Astor, General F.D. Grant, Samuel L. Clemens [Mark Twain], and Colonel H.O.S. Heistand [pictured].

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910
Dewey, George, 1837-1917
Fletcher, W.H., fl. 1906
Grant, Frederick Dent, 1850-1912
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910
Heistand, H.O.S., 1856-1924
Astor, John Jacob, 1864-1912
Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
Monument
Art, Music, Theater, and Film
Inventor
Steamboat
Literature and Language Arts
The Politics of Reform

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