Desnoyer, Peter
pioneer, was born April 21, 1773, in France. Congress, in 1807, gave him a tract of land on Detroit river, in return for his loyalty to the United States. He subsequently became United States marshal for the territory of Michigan, and in 1839 state treasurer. He died March 6, 1880, in Detroit, Mich.
DE SOLA, ABRAHAM, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 18, 1825, in London. He was an eloquent expounder of conservative Judaism. His published works include Scripture Zoology; The Sanitary Institutions of the Hebrews; Mosaic Cosmogony; Sinaitic Inscriptions; Notes on the Jews of Persia; and minor writings on Jewish history and literature. He died June 5, 1882, in New York.
DE STEFANI, RAFAEL E., operatic artist and vocal teacher, was born in Cuba. He decided to settle in Brooklyn, N. Y., and there opened his Italian conservatory on Fulton and Gould streets, which in a short time became one of the leading institutions in the city.