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Jao de la Porta

aka: José da Porta
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unknown1810sunknown
along with his older brother Morin, was a Portuguese Jewish merchant important in the early settlement of the Texan coast. João was born in Portugal but attended school in Paris, before moving to Brazil, the British West Indies, and finally New Orleans. Along with his brother, João provided the financing for the privateer Louis Michel Aury, who established...
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Etienne De Lancey

aka: Étienne
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1663, Oct 241741, Nov 18
Having been compelled, as a Protestant, to leave France on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (18 Oct., 1685), he escaped into Holland. Deciding to become a British subject and to emigrate to America, he crossed to England and took the oath of allegiance to James II. He landed in New York, 7 June, 1686. His mother had given him, on his departure from Caen...
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Herman de Ruyter

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1540 ca1570, Dec 19
a Dutch Beggars leader, known for his intake of Loevestein in 1570. As his profession, oxen buyer was reported. De Ruyter was a convinced Calvinist , and emerged as such in 1566-1567, when Calvinism in 's-Hertogenbosch came into being, as in many other places in the Netherlands, above ground. In February 1567 he took Anton van Bombergen to 's-Hertogenbosch, ...
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Silas Deane

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1737, Dec 241759-17841789, Sep 23
an American merchant, politician, and diplomat, and a supporter of American independence. Deane served as a delegate to the Continental Congress, then as the first foreign diplomat from the United States to France. Near the end of the war, Congress charged Deane with financial impropriety, and the British intercepted and published some letters in which he ha...
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John Deere

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1804, Feb 71821-18861886, May 17
an American blacksmith and manufacturer who founded Deere & Company, one of the largest and leading agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers in the world. Born in Rutland, Vermont, Deere moved to Illinois and invented the first commercially successful steel plow in 1837.
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Peter Desaga

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18121840-18591879
a German instrument maker at the University of Heidelberg who worked with Robert Bunsen. In 1855, Desaga perfected an earlier design of the laboratory burner by Michael Faraday into the Bunsen burner. Neither Desaga nor Bunsen patented the design, and many imitations were marketed. The Bunsen burner was essential to the invention of the spectroscope by Rober...
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Timothy Dexter

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1747, Jan 221806, Oct 23
an American businessman noted for his writing and eccentricity. At the end of the American Revolutionary War, he bought large amounts of deprecated Continental currency that was worthless at the time. At war's end, the U.S. government made good on its notes at one percent of face value, while Massachusetts paid its own notes at par. His arbitrage enabled him...
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Joseph Dixon

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17991869
an inventor, entrepreneur and the founder of what became the Dixon Ticonderoga Company, a well-known manufacturer of pencils in the United States. His fascination with new technologies led to many innovations such as a mirror for a camera that was the forerunner of the viewfinder, a patented double-crank steam engine, and a method of printing banknotes to th...
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Edwin Drake

aka: Colonel Drake
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1819, Mar 291880, Nov 9
the first American to successfully drill for oil. Edwin Drake was hired by the Seneca Oil Company to investigate suspected oil deposits in Titusville, Pennsylvania. James Townsend, President of the Seneca Oil Company, sent Drake to the site in the spring of 1858. The oil company chose the retired railway man partly because he had free use of the rail. Drake ...
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John Dunlap

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17471812, Nov 27
an Irish printer who printed the first copies of the United States Declaration of Independence and was one of the most successful Irish/American printers of his era. During the American Revolutionary War, Dunlap became an officer in the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, and saw action with George Washington at the battles of Trenton and Princeton. In 17...
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