P.P.F. Degrand

Peter Paul Francis Degrand (1787–1855) or P.P.F. Degrand was a French-born broker and merchant in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th-century.
Degrand was born in Marseilles, France, and moved to Boston around 1803. He was involved with the Boston Stock Exchange and the railroad; and published the Boston Weekly Report in the 1820s, employing Edgar Allan Poe as a reporter. Degrand lived on Pinckney Street in Beacon Hill. Friends included John Quincy Adams. He died on December 23, 1855 and was buried in Forest Hills Cemetery. Degrand bequeathed $120,000 to charity, a large part of which was for the acquisition of French-language scientific texts for Harvard University.