Edwin Hicks Van Deusen
Parents
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.

1860


Jul 20
Age: 4m
1860 • The world's first ocean-going (all) iron-hulled and armoured battleship, the (British) HMS Warrior, is launched.

1880


Age: 19y
1880 German company Munich Re is founded in Munich.

1883


Nov 27
Age: 23y
1883 • Chile's National Library of Congress is founded.

1891


Jul 10
Age: 31y
1891 Census in the United Kingdom. 15.6 million people live in cities of 20,000 or more in England and Wales. Cities of 20,000 or more account for 54% of the total English population.

1900


Oct 23
Age: 40y

1915


Age: 54y
1915 • First United States coast-to-coast long-distance telephone call, facilitated by a newly invented vacuum tube amplifier, ceremonially inaugurated by Alexander Graham Bell in New York City and his former assistant Thomas A. Watson, in San Francisco, California.

1930


Age: 69y
1930 • The Lapua Movement marches in Helsinki, Finland.

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 • Recruitment begins in Britain for a home defence force: the Local Defence Volunteers, later known as the Home Guard.

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