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E. B. Van Deusen Dies Of Pneumonia. Was Well-known Horseman and a Familiar Speedway Figure. Elisha Blackmar Van Deusen, old-time Brooklynlte and one of the best-known horsemen on Long Island, died yesterday at his home, 387 union street, after a few days' Illness. He was taken ill on Wednesday. Pneumonia developed yesterday and his heart failed to carry the burden. He was born in Michigan and lived in Brooklyn for many years. He was manager for William H. Mairs & Co., wall paper merchants, with whom he had been for more than 50 years. He was an officer of the West minster Presbyterian Church and interested in many civic movements. His hobby was horses, especially trotters, and he never lost his love for them up to the last in spite of the vogue for motorcars. He was long one of the prominent figures of the old Brooklyn Speedway, now known as Ocean parkway, and won many a brush with True Chimes, his most famous trotter. Began Business Life at 20. Mr. Van Deusen retired from business in 1922, but soon returned to active life. He started work at the age of 20 and could not endure idleness. He was educated in Catskill, New York, and spent his early years on his father's farm of 200 acres. He came to Brooklyn in 1875. Mr. Van Deusen came of old Dutch stock and lived for more than 40 years in the Union street house. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Bertha McClellan Van Deusen; a son and daughter in Cornell University, Ellsha Blackmar Jr. and Elsie B. Van Deusen, and two daughters by his first marriage, Mrs. Edna Emerson and Mrs. Emmett Cockrell of Toledo, Ohio. Funeral services will be held on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock, at Westminster Presbyterian Church, with Interment on Friday in the family plot In the old cemetery at South Cairo, New York, which has been in the Van Deusen family for more than 100 years.

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