Provenance:

By descent in the family of the sitter to the present owner.

Note:

According to Charles Barney Whittlesey, The Roosevelt Genealogy 1649-1902, (1902), Henry Latrobe Roosevelt was born on the river steamer New Orleans on the Ohio River, October 30, 1811: died at Skaneateles, January 10, 1884. unmarried. Henry was the son of steamboat inventor and manufacturer Nicholas J. Roosevelt (1767-1854) and Lydia Latrobe (1791-1878) daughter of architect Benjamin Latrobe.

Lydia, pregnant and with a toddler in tow, accompanied her husband aboard the New Orleans for a months long voyage on the Ohio and the Mississippi rivers to establish the viability of the new transportation mode. The progress of the voyage from Pittsburgh to New Orleans was chronicled in the Pittsburgh Gazette and Western Spy.

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