Nicholas Longworth, of Cincinnati, became greatly interested in the cultivation of vines on the banks of the Ohio River. To such an extent did he patronize this industry that he may be regarded as the father of the native wine industry from native grapes in the United States. Vines were cultivated on the Pacific Coast as early as 1769. Great progress was made in the United States by the introduction of the Catawba grape by Major Adlum, about the year 1824. The Horticultural Society of Cincinnati took a great interest in vine culture, as is shown by their reports issued as early as 1830. The principal American varieties which were developed at this early time were the Fox, the Catawba, the Ives Seedling and the Norton Seedling. From these original stocks have sprung nearly all the Eastern varieties of grapes.