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Peter Desloge, chairman of the board of Watlow Electric Manufacturing Co., and investor Theodore Plummer Desloge Jr. are descendants of Firmin Rene Desloge, who struck it rich when he hit a lead vein in Southern Missouri in the 1800s.
Firmin Rene Desloge, who emigrated from France to Ste. Genevieve, Mo., in 1823, set up business in the southern Missouri lead belt. Since then, the Desloge family members have gone on to...