William H. Van Wagoner (April 1870 – after 1920) was born in

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and was a bicycle racer from 1888 through the mid 1890s who won many competitions throughout the Northeastern

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. He went on to design the

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, an

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electric automobile manufactured between 1899 and 1903 in

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, by the Syracuse Automobile Company.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Van Wagoner, William Sportspeople from Syracuse, New York People from New Jersey 1870 births American male cyclists Year of death unknown