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Destrehan, Jean Noel

statesman, was born about 1780. He was a citizen of Louisiana, and in 1805 one of the authors of a pamphlet attacking the territorial government. In 1812 he was elected to the United States senate, but resigned the office before taking his seat. DETMOLD, CHRISTIAN EDWARD, civil engineer, was born Feb. 2, 1810, in Germany. He built the works of the New Jersey Zinc company, at Newark, N. J., being president of the company, and developed the manufacture of spiegel iron from the residue of zinc ore. He died July 2, 1887, in New York city.