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.

1880


Age: 19y
1880 Cologne Cathedral is completed, after construction began in 1248, 632 years earlier.

1891


Jul 10
Age: 31y
1891 Pope Leo XIII issues the encyclical Rerum Novarum, resulting in the creation of many Christian Democrat Parties throughout Europe.

1900


Jun 1
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.

1900


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

1906


Jul 31
Age: 46y
1906 Persian Constitutional Revolution: a nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah to grant a constitution and establish a national assembly, the Majlis.

1912


Jan 18
Age: 51y
1912 • The African National Congress is founded as the South African Native National Congress at the Waaihoek Wesleyan Church in Bloemfontein to promote improved rights for black South Africans, with John Langalibalele Dube as its first president.

1920


Age: 59y
1920 • Presidential elections begin in Mexico.

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 Federal government of the United States reorganisation:

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