Hippolyte SILVESTRE

b. Dec. 14. 1808, Saint-Nicolas-du-Port (Meurthe); d. Dec. 3,1879, Sommerviller, near Nancy. Was first a pupil of Blaise at Mirecourt, then of J. B. Vuillaume at Paris. In 1831 he joined his brother Pierre at Lyons, and worked with him till 1848. On the death of Pierre in 1859 he again took up the business, and continued in it till 1865, when he transferred it to H. Chretien, his sister's son, and retired to Sommerviller, where he died.