Edwin Hicks Van Deusen
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Isaac Van Deusen
Isaac Van Deusen
1829 - 1918
Josephine Hicks
Josephine Hicks
1835 - 1921
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He graduated from the Philadelphia High School in 1877, and from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1880, since which date he practiced medicine uninterruptedly except from March 1881, to July, 1882 when he was assistant superintendent of Troy Farm.  Played baseball with the Germantown junior team from 1875 to 1881 and played on the University of Pennsylvania team in 1878.

1880


Age: 19y
1880 Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza signs a treaty of protection with the chief on the large Teke tribe and begins to establish a French protectorate on the north bank of the Congo River.

1883


Nov 27
Age: 23y

1891


Jul 10
Age: 31y

1900


Jun 1
Age: 40y
1900 • The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.

1900


Oct 23
Age: 40y
1900 • The United Kingdom and the United States sign a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal across Central America in Nicaragua.

1920


Age: 59y
1920 Treaty of Trianon: Peace is restored between the Allied Powers and Hungary. Hungary loses 72% of its territory.

1930


Age: 69y
1930 • While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh confirms the existence of Pluto, a Celestial Body considered a planet until redefined as a dwarf planet in 2006.

1940


Age: 79y
Edwin Van Deusen - 1940 United States Federal Census

residence


Vineland, Cumberland, New Jersey, USA ⇓
Edwin lists his occupation as a medical doctor in a private practice.
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1940 • WWII: The Soviet Union annexes the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in what becomes regarded as an early example of Soviet imperialism.

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