♂ Frank Van Deusen

1832 - 1927

Frank Van Deusen
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Parents
Cornelius Van Deusen
Cornelius Van Deusen
1786 - 1873
Maria McCagg
Maria McCagg
1791 - 1868
Spouse
Helen Briggs Hazen
Helen Briggs Hazen
1834 - 1923
Siblings
James Van Deusen
James Van Deusen
1812 - 1910
Elizabeth Van Deusen
Elizabeth Van Deusen
1814 - 1891
Margaret Van Deusen
Margaret Van Deusen
1817 - 1892
Matthew Van Deusen
Matthew Van Deusen
1821 - 1917
John Van Deusen
John Van Deusen
1825 - 1891
Isaac Van Deusen
Isaac Van Deusen
1829 - 1918

From 1861 to 1917 he conducted a laundry business in Troy, N. Y., "a pioneer in the laundry world." Beginning with fifteen women hand workers, the business in 1917 had five depots and employed over three hundred men and women.

1855


Feb 5
Age: 22y

1915


Jun 1
Age: 82y
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.
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1927


Age: 93y
1927 • Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen return to Washington, D.C., having completed a two-year journey of 11,356 miles to all 48 of the states (of that time).

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