J & W Van Duzen & Company

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J & W Van Duzen & Company
IndustryShipbuilding
Founded1834; 190 years ago (1834)
FoundersJohn Van Duzen
Mathew Van Duzen
Washington Van Duzen
Christian Gulager
Defunct?
Headquarters,
United States

J & W Van Duzen & Company, was a 19th-century, Philadelphia shipbuilding firm. It was formed in 1834 by brothers John, Mathew and Washington Van Duzen and their brother-in-law Captain Christian Gulager. The three sons of an earlier Philadelphia shipbuilder, Mathew Van Duzen who came from New York in 1795.[1]: 3 

Washington Van Duzen patented the first marine railway in Philadelphia, in 1834. It was subsequently built by J. & W. Van Dusen & Co., at Kensington, Philadelphia in 1834-35.[1]

Mathew Van Dusen was mentor to Domingo Marcucci who later became an important early shipbuilder in San Francisco.[2]

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