Delaplaine, Joseph
publisher, was born Dec. 20, 1777, in Philadelphia, Pa.
In 1813 he began the serial publication of his Repository of the Lives and Portraits of Distinguished Americans, a series of engravings with biographical notices. He died May 31, 1824, in Philadelphia, Pa.
DE LARGE, ROBERT C., congressman, was born March 15, 1842, in Aiken, S. C.
He was a member of the state legislature from 1868 to 1870; and was one of the state commissioners of the sinking fund.
He was elected in 1870 state land commissioner; and was elected to the fortysecond congress. DELAVAN, EDWARD CORNELIUS, merchant, author, was born in 1793 in Schenectady county, N. Y. He was a retired wine merchant of Schenectady, conspicuous as a temperance reformer; and the author of Adulterations of Liquors; and Temperance in Wine Countries. He died Jan. 15, 1871, in Schenectady, N. Y.
DE LA VERGNE, JOHN C., manufacturer, inventor, was born Sept. 6, 1840, in Schoharie county, N. Y. In 1880 he commenced business as manufacturer of refrigerating and ice-making plants in New York city, making improvements, and expanding the business until his machines are used in all parts of the world.
DE LEON, EDWIN, journalist, author, was born in 1828 in South Carolina. He was a Washington journalist who was an European diplomatic agent of the confederacy during the civil war period. He was the author of Thirty Years of My Life on Three Continents; The Khedive's Egypt; Askaros Kassis, the Captain, a novel; and Under the Star and Under the Crescent. He died in 1891.
DE LESTRY, LOUIS EDMUND, journalist, author, was born Jan. 1, 1860, in Louisiana. He received his education in Europe, passing through the Royal Military academy of Frankfurt, Germany, and graduating in 1887 from Heidelberg university in the classical course with the degree of A. M. His first journalistic engagement was during the Russo-Turkish war. In 1878 he returned from Europe and entered journalism, principally in the northwest. In 1890 he published a History of Helena, Mont.; and in 1897 he compiled an elaborate historical work of St. Paul, Minn., for the Pioneer Press of that city. is also the author of Leaves From a Notebook, a collection of his short stories. In 1897 he established De Lestry's Western Magazine of St. Paul, Minn.
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