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.

1875


Mar 20
1875 • The Midland Railway of England abolishes the Second Class passenger category leaving First Class and Third Class. Other British railway companies follow Midland's lead during the rest of the year (Third Class is renamed Second Class in 1956).

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 • The significance of Chinese oracle bones is discovered.

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. Steel is incorporated by industrialist J. P. Morgan as the first billion-dollar corporation.

1901


Mar 26
Age: 26y
1901 • German Oscar Troplowitz invents for German company Beiersdorf AG the medical plaster patch called Leukoplast.

1905


Age: 29y
1905 Russo-Japanese WarTreaty of Portsmouth: In New Hampshire, a treaty mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is signed by victor Japan and Russia. Russia cedes the island of Sakhalin and port and rail rights in Manchuria to Japan.

1910


Apr 28
Age: 35y
1910 • The first filmed version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein comes out. Considered to be the first horror movie, it stars actor Charles Ogle as the monster.

1915


Age: 39y

1917


Age: 41y

1920


Age: 44y

1940


Age: 64y

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