title: J & W Van Duzen & Company
text: # J & W Van Duzen & Company
  
  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 $1795.^{:3}$
  
  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.
  
  Mathew Van Dusen was mentor to Domingo Marcucci who later became an important early shipbuilder in San Francisco.
  
  