One of this state's largest cities is named for steamboat builder & captain Henry Schreve
[DOC] [TLE] Steamboats on the Ohio River [PAR] 1811 - Fulton s steamboat, New Orleans, is built at Pittsburgh and sailed ... 1816 
- Henry Shreve builds the George Washington at Wheeling, W. Va. ... Shreve 
names his passenger cabins after states of the union, calling them staterooms.