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The family then donated this land for a park, today named Firmin Desloge Park, and dedicated it to the mining families in the area. [46] In 1955, Joseph Desloge donated to the state of Missouri some 2,400 acres of land acquired over 17 years in Reynolds County. [47]
The Desloge Consolidated Lead Company built and operated a hospital to serve the miners and local community located in Desloge, Missouri on Fir Street. [19] The lengthy Desloge family association with this hospital is the catalyst to Firmin V. Desloge II donating to fund Firmin Desloge Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. [20]
Firmin René Desloge (17 February 1803, in Nantes, France – 20 July 1856, in Potosi, Missouri) was a U.S. businessman who founded lead mines and other mercantile businesses. [1] He was the progenitor of the Desloge Family in America , whose Missouri business interests included fur trading, hardware, clothing, lead mining, smelting and ore ...
In 1822, Desloge's father, Firmin René Desloge, came to America from France to work with his uncle Jean Ferdinand Rozier from Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. [2] [3]Born August 30, 1843, in Potosi, Missouri, the young Desloge received his early education in the public schools at Potosi, where the family businesses included fur trading, distilling, and mining.
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The success of the company prompted many competitors in southeast Missouri including the Doe Run Company and Desloge Consolidated Lead Company which were absorbed by St. Joe. [2] Firmin V. Desloge, patriarch of the Desloge Family in America, remained on the board of directors as well as many of his descendants well into the late 20th Century.
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Like the hospital it serves, the Desloge Chapel was underwritten by gifts from the family of Firmin V. Desloge, [2] one of the oldest French families in the United States and wealthy through lead mining and other endeavors. [3] Firmin's wife Lydia Holden Davis Desloge gave $100,000 ($1,823,904 today [4]) to build the chapel. [5] [6] [7]