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 • Augusta High School in Augusta, Kentucky, burns down due to a heating plant failure.

1901


Age: 25y

occupation


Him and his wife started a poultry business, and by 1927 they had 2000 birds.
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1901 • The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.

1901


Mar 26
Age: 26y
1901 Middelburg peace conference fails in South Africa as Boers continue to demand autonomy.

1905


Age: 29y
1905 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly (the Duma).

1940


Age: 64y
1940 • WWII: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Naval Expansion Act into law, which aims to increase the United States Navy's tonnage by 11%.

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