Peter Paul Francis Degrand (1787–1855) was a French-born broker and merchant in Boston, Massachusetts.
Business career Degrand was born in Marseille, France, and moved to Boston around 1803. He published the Boston Weekly Report in the 1820s,Library of Congress. Boston Weekly Report. possibly employing Edgar Allan Poe for two weeks as a clerk and perhaps also as a reporter. He was one of the thirteen founding members of the Boston Stock Exchange and was described by Clarence W. Barron and Joseph G. Martin as "the man to whose indomitable energy and foresight the existence of the Boston Stock Exchange is largely due". He was a major stockholder in the Western Railroad and was instrumental in securing financial aid from the state during the railroad's early years.
Personal life Degrand lived on Pinckney Street in Beacon Hill.House at no.105 Pinckney Street; offices kept successively on Broad St., State St., and Congress St. Boston Directory. 1823, 1832, 1848, 1851. He was friend with President of the United States John Quincy Adams. He died on December 23, 1855 and was buried in Forest Hills Cemetery."Deaths." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, v.10, no.2, April 1856 Degrand bequeathed $120,000 to charity, a large part of which was for the acquisition of French-language scientific texts for Harvard University.
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By Degrand PPF Degrand's Boston Weekly Report of Public Sales and of Arrivals. Boston: 1819-1828 Proceedings of the Friends of a national bank, at their public meeting, held in Boston, fifteenth July, 1841: Including an address to the people of the U. States: showing that, to give healthful action, to the vital functions of the constitution of the United States, a national bank (not a government), invested with the powers herein described, is indispensably necessary. Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1841
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WorldCat. Degrand, P. P. F. (Peter Paul Francis) 1787-1855