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

1880


Age: 19y
1880 • A big earthquake struck Zagreb and demolished everything including the Zagreb Cathedral.

1883


Nov 27
Age: 23y

1891


Jul 10
Age: 31y
1891 • First long-distance transmission of alternating current by the Ames power plant near Telluride, Colorado, by Lucien and Paul Nunn.

1900


Oct 23
Age: 40y
1900 Second Boer War: British military leaders accept the unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé.

1912


Jan 18
Age: 51y
1912 Carl Laemmle founds Universal Studios as the Universal Film and Manufacturing Company in the United States.

1915


Age: 54y
1915 • The steamer Eastland capsizes in central Chicago, with the loss of 844 lives.

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 • First free flight of Igor Sikorsky's Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter.

1941


Mar 20
Age: 81y
1941 • The Japanese declaration of war on the United States and the British Empire is published in Japanese evening newspapers but not formally delivered to the U.S. until the following day. Canada declares war on Japan.

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