The Desloge family, ()[1] centered mostly in Missouri and especially at St. Louis,[2] rose to wealth through international commerce, sugar refining, oil drilling, fur trading, mineral mining, saw milling, manufacturing, railroads, real estate, and riverboats. The family has funded hospitals and donated large tracts of land for public parks and conservation.[3][4]
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- ^ Stevens, Walter B. St. Louis: The Fourth City 1764–1911. 2 vols. St. Louis-Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1909 and 1911.
- ^ History of Southeast Missouri. Robert Sidney Douglass, Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1912
- ^ Missouri Historical Society Archives, St. Louis, MO, Desloge Family Collection, [1] Archived September 6, 2024, at the Wayback Machine (Item A0378)