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Rhoda Cheney Blish 8 [f]
8th Generation

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Born June 10th, 1850 No Image On File
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Parents
Father [667]William Henry Blish 7
Mother [667sa]Eliza (Hollister) Blish, originally [?] 7 No Image On File

Spouses, Mates & Children none known

Immediate Family Tree
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Rhoda Cheney BlishWilliam Henry BlishColonel Sylvester Blish, (***)Deacon Thomas Blish, (***)David Blish, (***)
Zeruiah (Skinner) Blish
Prudence (Hubbard) BlishElizur Hubbard
Abigail (Hollister) Hubbard
Rhoda (Cheney) BlishTimothy Cheney? Cheney
? (?) Cheney
Rhoda (Skinner) Cheney? Skinner
? (?) Skinner
Eliza (Hollister) Blish, originally [?]Deacon Nehimiah HollisterNo EntryNo Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1850 to 1950
1829-1851:
2nd Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 1
1830-1860:
Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US from before birth until age 10
1837-1901:
Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 51
1848-1856:
1st gold rush in California -- Sutters Mill from before birth until age 6
1849-1852:
Zachary Taylor president of the US from before birth until age 2
1850:
California enters the union - 31st at age 0
1850:
New Mexico organized as a territory at age 0
1850:
Utah (included Nevada) organized as a territory at age 0
1850:
US pop reaches 23 million at age 0
1850:
World pop. est. at 1.1 billion at age 0
1851:
Gold rush in Australia at age 1
1852-1859:
3rd Cholera pandemic from age 2 to age 9
1853:
Washington (included pt. of Idaho) organized as a territory at age 3
1853-1856:
Franklin Pierce president of US from age 3 to age 6
1854-1856:
Crimean War from age 4 to age 6
1854:
Kansas organized as a territory at age 4
1854:
Nebraska organized as a territory at age 4
1857-1866:
Transatlantic cable laid from age 7 to age 16
1857:
Dred Scott decision: Blacks could not be US citizens at age 7
1857-1860:
James Buchanan president of US from age 7 to age 10
1858:
Minnesota enters the union - 32nd at age 8
1858:
India bill transfers government of India to England at age 8
1859:
Darwin pub. Origin Of Species at age 9
1859:
Oregon enters the union - 33rd at age 9
1859:
Oil Well at age 9
1860:
South Carolina Secedes from the Union at age 10
1860:
Rifled barrel invented at age 10
1861:
South Dakota organized as a territory at age 11
1861-1865:
Confederate States of America Exist from age 11 to age 15
1861:
The Apache Declare War on the US at age 11
1861:
Transcontinental Telegraph completed at age 11
1861-1865:
Civil War from age 11 to age 15
1861:
Nevada organized as a territory at age 11
1861:
Gold rush in New Zealand at age 11
1861:
Colorado organized as a territory at age 11
1861:
Kansas enters the union - 34th at age 11
1861-1865:
Abraham Lincoln president of US from age 11 to age 15
1861:
North Dakota organized as a territory at age 11
1862:
US Homestead act at age 12
1863:
Battle of Gettysburg at age 13
1863:
Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves at age 13
1863:
West Virginia enters the union - 35th at age 13
1863:
Idaho organized as a territory at age 13
1863-1879:
4th Cholera pandemic from age 13 to age 29
1863:
Arizona organized as a territory at age 13
1864:
Nevada enters the union - 36th at age 14
1864:
Louisiana organized as a territory at age 14
1865:
Ku Klux Klan founded at age 15
1865:
Lister invents Disinfection at age 15
1865:
President Lincoln assassinated at age 15
1866-1868:
Andrew Johnson president of US from age 16 to age 18
1866:
Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts) at age 16
1867:
Alaska purchased from Russia at age 17
1867:
Nebraska enters the union - 37th at age 17
1867:
Dynamite at age 17
1867:
Confederation of Canada at age 17
1867:
Diamonds discovered in South Africa at age 17
1868-1878:
War between Cuba and Spain from age 18 to age 28
1869:
Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold at age 19
1869:
Cutty Sark built at age 19
1869-1876:
Ulysses S Grant president of US from age 19 to age 26
1869:
Suez canal opened at age 19
1869:
Trans-continental railroad completed at age 19
1870:
US black men can vote at age 20
1870:
1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) at age 20
1870-1871:
Franco-Prussian war from age 20 to age 21
1871:
Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 21
1873-1878:
Depression, banks fail from age 23 to age 28
1873:
Color Photographs at age 23
1876:
Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 26
1876:
Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 26
1876:
American Centennial at age 26
1876:
Little Big Horn - Battle at age 26
1877:
Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 27
1877-1880:
Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 27 to age 30
1878:
1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 28
1879:
Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 29
1879:
Zulu war at age 29
1881-1885:
Chester Arthur president of US from age 31 to age 35
1881-1896:
5th Cholera pandemic from age 31 to age 46
1881:
President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 31
1881:
James A Garfield president of US at age 31
1884:
1st subway at age 34
1884:
Motorcycle at age 34
1885:
Automobile at age 35
1885-1888:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 35 to age 38
1886:
Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 36
1887:
X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 37
1888:
Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 38
1888:
70...77 rpm musical records at age 38
1889:
Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 39
1889-1892:
Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 39 to age 42
1889:
Holerith invents the punch card at age 39
1889:
South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 39
1889:
North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 39
1889:
Montana enters the union - 41st at age 39
1890:
Battle of Wounded Knee at age 40
1890:
Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 40
1890:
Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 40
1890:
Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 40
1891:
Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 41
1893:
Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 43
1893-1896:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 43 to age 46
1893:
Movies at age 43
1893-1897:
US Financial panic, depression from age 43 to age 47
1893:
New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 43
1894:
Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 44
1894-1895:
Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 44 to age 45
1896:
Utah enters the union - 45th at age 46
1896:
Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 46
1897-1901:
William McKinley president of US from age 47 to age 51
1898:
Spanish American 1-year war at age 48
1899-1923:
6th Cholera pandemic from age 49 to age 73
1899-1902:
Boer war from age 49 to age 52
1900:
Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 50
1900:
Hawaii organized as a territory at age 50
1900:
Boxer rebellion in China at age 50
1901-1908:
Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 51 to age 58
1901:
First British submarine launched at age 51
1901:
Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 51
1901:
US President William McKinley assassinated at age 51
1901:
Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 51
1901:
Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 51
1901:
Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 51
1901-1910:
Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 51 to age 60
1903:
Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 53
1903:
Airplane at age 53
1904:
Radar at age 54
1904-1905:
Russian-Japanese war from age 54 to age 55
1907:
Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 57
1907:
Plastic at age 57
1908:
Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 58
1909:
North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 59
1909-1912:
William Howard Taft president of US from age 59 to age 62
1909:
Union of South Africa formed at age 59
1910-1936:
Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 60 to age 86
1910:
Japan annexes Korea at age 60
1910:
Halley's Comet at age 60
1911:
South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 61
1912:
Alaska organized as a territory at age 62
1912:
Titanic sinks at age 62
1912:
Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 62
1912:
New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 62
1913-1920:
Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 63 to age 70
1914:
The Bra at age 64
1914-1919:
World War I from age 64 to age 69
1915:
Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 65
1916:
Irish Easter Rebellion at age 66
1916:
Sonar at age 66
1917:
Russian revolution at age 67
1917:
US enters WWI at age 67
1918-1933:
Prohibition from age 68 to age 83
1918-1920:
Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 68 to age 70
1919:
Shortwave Radio at age 69
1919:
League of Nations instantiated at age 69
1920:
Palestine established at age 70
1920:
Women receive right to vote in USA at age 70
1920-1929:
Roaring 20's from age 70 to age 79
1921-1924:
Warren G Harding president of US from age 71 to age 74
1922:
Insulin made available to diabetics at age 72
1925:
Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 75
1925-1928:
Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 75 to age 78
1926:
Sound in Movies at age 76
1927:
Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 77
1927:
1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 77
1928:
Video Recordings at age 78
1928:
Television at age 78
1928:
Geiger Counter at age 78
1928:
Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 78
1929-1939:
Great Depression from age 79 to age 89
1929:
Stock Market Crash at age 79
1929-1932:
Herbert Hoover president of US from age 79 to age 82
1930:
Pluto Discovered at age 80
1931-1933:
Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 81 to age 83
1933:
Radio Astronomy at age 83
1933:
Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 83
1933-1945:
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 83 to age 95
1933:
Soviet communist party purge at age 83
1934:
Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 84
1935-1936:
Abyssinian war from age 85 to age 86
1935:
Dustbowl at age 85
1936-1952:
Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 86 until after line end
1936:
Helicopter at age 86
1936:
Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 86
1936:
Spanish Civil War at age 86
1937-1945:
Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 87 to age 95
1937:
Nylon (by DuPont) at age 87
1938:
Germany annexes Austria at age 88
1939:
Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 89
1939:
Digital Computer at age 89
1939-1945:
World War II from age 89 to age 95
1940:
1st black general in US army at age 90
1940:
Color Television at age 90
1941-1945:
Manhattan Project from age 91 to age 95
1942:
Nuclear Reactor at age 92
1942:
Magnetic Recording Tape at age 92
1945:
United Nations formed at age 95
1945:
Hypertext at age 95
1945-1952:
Harry S Truman president of US from age 95 until after line end
1945:
US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 95
1946:
The Bikini at age 96
1946-1989:
The Cold War from age 96 until after line end
1947:
Transistor at age 97
1947:
India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 97
1947:
UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 97
1948:
Israel inaugurated as state at age 98
1948:
Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 98
1948:
NATO formed at age 98
1948:
33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 98
1949:
Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 99
1949:
45 rpm musical recordings at age 99
1949:
Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 99
1950:
Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 100
1950-1954:
McCarthyism from age 100 until after line end
1950-1953:
Korean War from age 100 until after line end
1950:
World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 100

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