Firmin René Desloge was a United States. businessman who founded lead mines and other mercantile businesses.
Background
Desloge’s great-grandfathers included Jean Mosneron, a nobleman of Bretignolles, Luzon, who lived in Nantes. Nobleman Gildas Alexiz Pitault. Francois Rozier, a lawyer in the Parliament of Paris, Bailiff of the Forte’, Sancerre, Ingra and other jurisdictions of the Bailiwick of Orleans.
And Michel Rozier, an officer of the Mint and Marshall of the Minters of the Orléans Mint.
His grandfathers included Francois Claude Rozier, Mayor of Kernegan from August 1789 and Judge of the Tribunal of Commerce from January 23, 1793. Desloge"s father, Joseph Giles Desloge, was appointed Mayor of Morlaix by the French First Empire.
His uncle (by marriage to his father’s sister Marie-Marguerite) was Jean-Baptiste Sollier de la Quillerie, a member of the French king’s gendarme.
Career
He was the progenitor of the Family in America, whose Missouri business interests included fur trading, hardware, clothing, lead smelting and ore trading, and distilling. Saint Genevieve, a Mississippi River town populated largely by French immigrants and their descendants, was a hub for trading with Indians and new white arrivals to the frontier. began to focus on lead mining. He had a nose for lead veins and geology, and began with open-ground diggings, some left open by Indians and frustrated miners.
He built a smelting furnace around 1824 as an extension of his Potosi mercantile business. became a naturalized citizen of Missouri in 1828.
Around 1932, "s estate was valued at more than $52 million ($901,882,927 today).