238 CHAPTER IX. Description of Montpelier-University of Virginia-Monticello and the White Sulphur Springs, as Mr. Latrobe saw them in 1832... CHAPTER X. Mr. Latrobe's Marriage to Miss ClaiborneShort Account of her Family-The "Claiborne Rebellion." 260 CHAPTER XI. Life after Second Marriage-Acquaintances and Clients-Friendship with Charles Harper and his Estrangement due to His Marriage The Settlement of the Controversy over the Will and Codicil of Charles Carroll of Carrollton..... .... 284 CHAPTER XII. Trip to New Orleans by Sea and Return by 302 320 CHAPTER XIV. Acquaintances formed by Mr. Latrobe after 1830 and Students who Studied in His Office-Directors of the Union Bank and Counsel-Bank Riots, 1835...... 364 CHAPTER XV. The Maryland Institute-The Maryland Historical Society-Latrobe Justice's Practice-MasonryJ. P. Kennedy-Painter-Greenmount-Mr. Latrobe's Poetic Talent. CHAPTER XVI. The Fireplace Heater-Experiences in Politics— CHAPTER XVII. Trip to Europe in 1857-Counsel for the Latrobe Genealogy.. Index.... Topical Index. 412 442 469 529 548 575 581 597 ILLUSTRATIONS Color Plates are indicated by an asterisk *PORTRAIT OF JOHN H. B. LATROBE. Painted by Thomas Sully. Frontispiece CAPITAL OF CORINTHIAN COLUMN. Showing Ears of Corn, Designed by B. H. Latrobe for the Capitol in Washington 10 CAPITAL OF CORINTHIAN COLUMN. Showing Native Tobacco 2488 14 Plant Leaves, designed by B. H. Latrobe for the Capitol 12 THOMAS JEFFERSON. Drawn by B. H. Latrobe... *MONTICELLO. Painted by John H. B. Latrobe.. 96 A SILHOUETTE OF JOHN H. B. LATROBE AND PENCIL SKETCH 124 ... 126 GOLD MEDAL WON BY JOHN H. B. LATROBE. In Competition for best Design of a Monument to Kosciuszko.. *CANAL AROUND THE FALLS OF THE OHIO. Painted by John H. B. Latrobe.... 164 MRS. WARING AS MARGARET. In "A New Way to Pay Old 186 THE ELDER BOOTH AS SIR GILES OVERREACH. Drawn by 188 *LOUISVILLE (UPPER LANDING), 1832. Painted by John H. B. Latrobe...... 204 *LANDING AT THREE RIVERS, 1830. Painted by John H. B. Latrobe.... 236 *WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, 1832. Painted by John H. B. Latrobe...... 242 *LAWN OF THE WHITE SULPHUR, WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, 1832. Painted by John H. B. Latrobe... 248 *BALTIMORE COTTAGES, WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. Painted by John H. B. Latrobe............. 254 *DINING ROOM, STAGE OFFICE, ETC., AT THE WHITE SULPHUR, 1832. Painted by John H. B. Latrobe...... *JOHN H. B. LATROBE WITH THE CLAIBORNE FAMILY AT BOTETOURT SPRINGS, VIRGINIA. By himself... WESTERN BLOCK HOUSE, FORT ARMSTRONG ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. Drawn by John H. B. Latrobe... FORT SNELLING, ST. PETER'S, ON THE MISSISSIPPI. Drawn by John H. B. Latrobe... 258 ... 262 .. 270 274 *PORTRAIT OF MRS. JOHN H. B. LATROBE. Painted by Thomas Sully...... 280 *CINCINNATI (LOOKING UP THE OHIO), 1832. Painted by John H. B. Latrobe.... ... 302 *NEAR THE WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. Painted by John H. B. Latrobe...... 308 *FALLS OF THE KENAWHA. Painted by John H. B. Latrobe.... 318 JOHN H. B. LATROBE AT THE AGE OF 76..... 340 LADY'S HAND AND ARM. Drawn by John H. B. Latrobe in his 15th year....... 426 *ILLUSTRATION FOR THE NOVEL "HORSE SHOE ROBINSON, BY JOHN P. KENNEDY. Painted by John H. B. Latrobe..... 436 HEATER INVENTED BY JOHN H. B. LATROBE. Known as the Latrobe Stove....... 442 COAT OF ARMS OF THE LATROBES.. 448 THE WALHALLA ON THE DANUBE. Drawn by John H. B. Latrobe .. 458 OUTLINE OF THE HORIZON AT ROME. Drawn by John H. B. 468 *PASS OF JAMES RIVER, 2 MILES BELOW BALCONY FALLS. 514 *FALLS OF THE OHIO. Painted by John H. B. Latrobe.... WASSILY AND PIOTTER. Servants of John H. B. Latrobe.... 526 RECEIPT GIVEN TO JOHN H. B. LATROBE. As one of the Subscribers to the first Telegraph Company ever Organized.. 548 *MEMPHIS, MISSISSIPPI, 1832. Painted by John H. B. Latrobe. 560 JOHN H. B. LATROBE AND HIS TIMES 1803-1891 CHAPTER I BENJAMIN H. LATROBE, FATHER OF JOHN H. B. LATROBE ARRIVES IN THIS COUNTRY, 1796-DIFFERENCE IN TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION, DUE TO STEAM AND ELECTRICITY-THE CIVILIZATION OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY OWES ITS GREAT ADVANCEMENT TO THIS-THE ELDER LATROBE ARCHITECT OF CAPITOL-SOCIAL LIFE IN WASHINGTON-FIRST TRIP BY STEAMBOAT DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI IN 1812, MADE BY NICHOLAS J. ROOSEVELT AND LYDIA LATROBE, HIS WIFE, THE SISTER OF JOHN H. B. LATROBE-FULTON'S CLAIM AS INVENTOR OF STEAMBOAT John H. B. Latrobe was the eldest son of his father's second marriage. He was born in Philadelphia on the 4th of May 1803, and died on the 11th of September 1891, at the age of eighty-eight. His father, Benjamin H. Latrobe, was born in England in 1764. His first wife was Lydia Sellen, whom he married in 1790. She died in 1793, leaving two children, Henry S. and Lydia; and two years later Mr. Latrobe sailed for America, embarking on Christmas Day, 1795. He reached Norfolk on the 17th of March 1796, almost four months from the date of his leaving England. In those days the world moved slowly. No change had been made in methods of transportation and communication prior to the beginning of the nineteenth century. It took as long to travel from Paris to London in 1810, as it did in the time of Julius Caesar. The nineteenth century : was destined to be the period of the world's greatest progress; which was embraced in the life of the subject of this memoir, 1803 to 1891, and was due to the development of rapid transportation, accomplished by steam, and rapid communication by electricity. In both of these John H. B. Latrobe took an active part. In Mr. Latrobe's "West Point Reminiscences" we find the following: "In December 1817, when I was fourteen years old, I was appointed a cadet and directed to report myself at West Point for examination in September of the following year. On my last visit to West Point, in 1886, I left Baltimore in a luxurious railroad car, between 8 and 9 o'clock a.m. and dined the same day at the West Point Hotel, at 5 p.m. In 1818 I left Baltimore between 8 and 9 o'clock a.m. in one of the earlier steamboats and reached Frenchtown towards evening, when I was carried by stage across the Peninsula to New castle, where I slept; and on the following morning reached Philadelphia by a Delaware River steamboat, about noon. The next day a steamboat took me to Trenton, and by stage again I got to New Brunswick where I slept; and the day after by another steamboat I was landed in New York. "At this time, there were but four steamboats on the Hudson. I was told at the hotel where I dined that if I took an Albany sloop, numbers of which were at the wharves close by, I would reach West Point in season for breakfast the following day. I thus began what might have been called the seventh instalment-by steam, stage and sail-of a journey which had grown to be as important in my eyes as though I had been Hendrick Hudson himself, seeking by this route a highway to Cathay." |