Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Van Deusen, B. B. October 29, 1841 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006329 July 25, 2009, 9:51 am Author: Hardin & Willard Van Deusen, B. B., German Flats, was born in Pennsylvania, October 29, 1841. He served one year in the United States army during ihe civil war and afterwards graduated a civil engineer. After following his profession for twenty years, largely mining engineering in the West, he entered manufacturing, and is now manager of the Remington Standard Typewriter Works at Ilion. In 1872 he married Miss Ellen F. Bollard, by whom he has two daughters. His father, Benjamin Van Deusen, and family have a history in this State extending back two centuries. Mr. Van Deusen's grandfathers and granduncles took part as patriots in the Revolutionary War. Additional Comments: source: History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893 550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/herkimer/bios/vandeuse1050gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb