User:Zero-eighty-eight

Hello,

I research family history; mostly my own family. One of my ancestors, my great-grandfather known as Andrew J. Van Deusen, had a number businesses as well as a variety of interests. One of his businesses was an architectural firm working out of Winona, Minnesota. He designed many buildings in Winona and in towns in southern Minnesota along route of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway. I am trying to document his buildings and find them if they still exist.

My first foray into editing Wikipedia was to add a line into the biography of my first wife, Patricia Monaghan, showing that she and I were married. Her biographical information initially ignored her first marriage and her first child, who incidentally is not my child. I do not think that she had any more children as she was not interested in having any more children.

My second foray into editing Wikipedia was to add my great-grandfather as the architect of the Sheriff's Residence and Jail for Nicollet County in St. Peter, Minnesota. The individual who created the page did not include A.J. Van Deusen as the architect for the jail.

A.J. Van Deusen had another sheriff's residence and jail on the National Register of Historic Buildings in Ivanhoe, Minnesota, but this building was razed in 2001. He also has an existing school in Tyler, Minnesota on the National Register of Historic Buildings. Both of these buildings were built in Lincoln County.

My next planned endeavor with Wikipedia will be to create a page for Andrew J. Van Deusen to list and document the buildings that he designed as well as to present other interesting facts of his life.

Warren Mitchell retired in 2007 born in 1942