Paul Van Deusen
Parents
Isaac Van Deusen
Isaac Van Deusen
1829 - 1918
Josephine Hicks
Josephine Hicks
1835 - 1921
Spouse
Siblings

Paul graduated in chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and was chemist for the Atlantic Refining Co. for a number of years until at the age of twenty-three, in company with his brother Isaac, he went prospecting in Wyoming where he was blinded by dynamite.

1899


Age: 23y

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Pennsylvania, USA ⇓
He worked for the Atlantic Refining Co. as a chemist until he was twenty three years old, having previously graduated in chemistry from the University of Pennsylavania. While later prospecting with his brother Isaac in Wyoming, he would be blinded by dynamite around the age of twenty five or twenty six.
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1899 • The significance of Chinese oracle bones is discovered.

1901


Age: 25y

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Him and his wife started a poultry business, and by 1927 they had 2000 birds.
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1901 • In Evansville, Indiana, a fire burns through the business district, causing $175,000 of damage.

1901


Mar 26
Age: 26y
1901 • First public telephones at railway stations in Paris.

1905


Age: 29y

1910


Apr 28
Age: 35y
1910 • The DELAG Zeppelin dirigible, Deutschland, makes the first commercial passenger flight from Friedrichshafen to Düsseldorf in Germany. The flight takes nine hours.

1915


Age: 39y
1915 • Release of the U.S. silent film Inspiration, the first mainstream movie in which a leading actress (Audrey Munson) appears nude.

1920


Age: 44y
1920 • General Józef Haller first performs Poland's Wedding to the Sea, a symbolic celebration of the restitution of Polish access to the Baltic Sea.

1930


Apr 2
Age: 55y
1930 • The experimental television station, W9XAP, in Chicago, Illinois, broadcasts the election for the United States Senate, the first time that a senatorial race, with continual tallies of the votes, is televised.

1940


Age: 64y
1940 • WWII: A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

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