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Alice Crary Sutcliffe
A writer with a strong family connection to American history, she is best known for books about inventor Robert Fulton, her great-grandfather. Her work blends biography, local history, and a personal interest in the past.
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Robert Fulton
by Alice Crary Sutcliffe
About the author
Alice Crary Sutcliffe was an American author whose published work centered on history and biography. Records of her books show that she wrote The Homestead of a Colonial Dame and later published works on Robert Fulton, including Robert Fulton and the "Clermont" and Robert Fulton.
Her connection to Fulton was personal as well as scholarly: contemporary catalog records identify her as his great-granddaughter. That family link helps explain the focus of her best-known books, which presented Fulton's life, experiments, and achievements for general readers.
Available biographical details are limited, but memorial records list her life dates as 1868 to 1953. Even with that small public record, her books remain a useful window into an early-20th-century writer preserving family and national history.