Elias Durand

He served for 14 months, and was present at the battles of Lützen, Bautzen, Hanau, Katzbach, and Leipzig.

In 1835 he was the first to begin bottling mineral waters in the United States, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society[2] in 1854.

This, the work of nearly forty years, he presented to the museum of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris in 1868.

A separate gallery has been devoted to the collection in that institution, and it was called "Herbaria Durandi" after the donor.

He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on August 15, 1873, and was interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery.