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

occupation


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 • Second Boer War: The Siege of Ladysmith begins.

1901


Age: 25y

occupation


Him and his wife started a poultry business, and by 1927 they had 2000 birds.
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1901 • U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt invites African American leader Booker T. Washington to the White House. The American South reacts angrily to the visit, and racial violence increases in the region.

1901


Mar 26
Age: 26y
1901 • U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".

1910


Apr 28
Age: 35y

1915


Age: 39y
1915 Lyda Conley, the first American Indian woman to appear before the Supreme Court of the United States as a lawyer, is admitted to practice there.“Washington, Oct. 25.” The New York Times, 26 October 1915.

1930


Apr 2
Age: 55y

1940


Age: 64y
1940 August 15 Italy, without declaring war in Greece, sinks the Greek boat Έλλη (Eli).

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