Personal Details

Born	November 18th, 1849
Birthplace	Ripley, Virginia, USA
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Parents

Father	[1040saf]	Daniel Webster Morrill 7
Mother	[1040sam]	Elizabeth Almira (Wedge) Morrill 7

Spouses, Mates & Children

Husband #1 [1040] - Matthew Bonar Blish 8 Married by: No Entry Married at: Wethersfield, Illinois, USA Children by this spouse: I [1325]+ Kate Elizabeth (Blish) Handley 9 b. October 13th, 1869 c. January II [1326]+ Charles Bonar Blish 9 b. February 25th, 1871 c. May III [1327]+ Dwight Morril Blish 9 b. May 23rd, 1881 c. August

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Personalized History Timeline, 1849 to 1949

1829-1851: 2nd Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 2 1830-1860: Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US from before birth until age 11 1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 52 1845-1849: Irish Potato Famine from before birth until age 0 1848-1856: 1st gold rush in California -- Sutters Mill from before birth until age 7 1849-1852: Zachary Taylor president of the US from age 0 to age 3 1849: Fizeau measures speed of light at age 0 1850: California enters the union - 31st at age 1 1850: Utah (included Nevada) organized as a territory at age 1 1850: World pop. est. at 1.1 billion at age 1 1850: US pop reaches 23 million at age 1 1850: New Mexico organized as a territory at age 1 1851: Gold rush in Australia at age 2 1852-1859: 3rd Cholera pandemic from age 3 to age 10 1853: Washington (included pt. of Idaho) organized as a territory at age 4 1853-1856: Franklin Pierce president of US from age 4 to age 7 1854: Nebraska organized as a territory at age 5 1854: Kansas organized as a territory at age 5 1854-1856: Crimean War from age 5 to age 7 1857: Dred Scott decision: Blacks could not be US citizens at age 8 1857-1866: Transatlantic cable laid from age 8 to age 17 1857-1860: James Buchanan president of US from age 8 to age 11 1858: India bill transfers government of India to England at age 9 1858: Minnesota enters the union - 32nd at age 9 1859: Oregon enters the union - 33rd at age 10 1859: Oil Well at age 10 1859: Darwin pub. Origin Of Species at age 10 1860: South Carolina Secedes from the Union at age 11 1860: Rifled barrel invented at age 11 1861: Kansas enters the union - 34th at age 12 1861-1865: Civil War from age 12 to age 16 1861-1865: Confederate States of America Exist from age 12 to age 16 1861: Transcontinental Telegraph completed at age 12 1861: North Dakota organized as a territory at age 12 1861: Gold rush in New Zealand at age 12 1861: Nevada organized as a territory at age 12 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln president of US from age 12 to age 16 1861: Colorado organized as a territory at age 12 1861: The Apache Declare War on the US at age 12 1861: South Dakota organized as a territory at age 12 1862: US Homestead act at age 13 1863: Battle of Gettysburg at age 14 1863: Idaho organized as a territory at age 14 1863: West Virginia enters the union - 35th at age 14 1863: Arizona organized as a territory at age 14 1863: Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves at age 14 1863-1879: 4th Cholera pandemic from age 14 to age 30 1864: Nevada enters the union - 36th at age 15 1864: Louisiana organized as a territory at age 15 1865: Ku Klux Klan founded at age 16 1865: President Lincoln assassinated at age 16 1865: Lister invents Disinfection at age 16 1866: Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts) at age 17 1866-1868: Andrew Johnson president of US from age 17 to age 19 1867: Dynamite at age 18 1867: Confederation of Canada at age 18 1867: Alaska purchased from Russia at age 18 1867: Diamonds discovered in South Africa at age 18 1867: Nebraska enters the union - 37th at age 18 1868-1878: War between Cuba and Spain from age 19 to age 29 1869-1876: Ulysses S Grant president of US from age 20 to age 27 1869: Cutty Sark built at age 20 1869: Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold at age 20 1869: Trans-continental railroad completed at age 20 1869: Suez canal opened at age 20 1870: 1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) at age 21 1870: US black men can vote at age 21 1870-1871: Franco-Prussian war from age 21 to age 22 1871: Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 22 1873-1878: Depression, banks fail from age 24 to age 29 1873: Color Photographs at age 24 1876: Little Big Horn - Battle at age 27 1876: Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 27 1876: Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 27 1876: American Centennial at age 27 1877-1880: Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 28 to age 31 1877: Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 28 1878: 1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 29 1879: Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 30 1879: Zulu war at age 30 1881-1885: Chester Arthur president of US from age 32 to age 36 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from age 32 to age 47 1881: President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 32 1881: James A Garfield president of US at age 32 1884: 1st subway at age 35 1884: Motorcycle at age 35 1885-1888: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 36 to age 39 1885: Automobile at age 36 1886: Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 37 1887: X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 38 1888: 70...77 rpm musical records at age 39 1888: Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 39 1889: North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 40 1889: South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 40 1889: Montana enters the union - 41st at age 40 1889: Holerith invents the punch card at age 40 1889: Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 40 1889-1892: Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 40 to age 43 1890: Battle of Wounded Knee at age 41 1890: Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 41 1890: Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 41 1890: Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 41 1891: Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 42 1893: Movies at age 44 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 44 to age 47 1893: New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 44 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from age 44 to age 48 1893: Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 44 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 45 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 45 to age 46 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 47 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 47 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 48 to age 52 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 49 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 50 to age 74 1899-1902: Boer war from age 50 to age 53 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 51 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 51 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 51 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 52 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 52 to age 59 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 52 to age 61 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 52 1901: First British submarine launched at age 52 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 52 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 52 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 52 1903: Airplane at age 54 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 54 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 55 to age 56 1904: Radar at age 55 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 58 1907: Plastic at age 58 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 59 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 60 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 60 to age 63 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 60 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 61 1910: Halley's Comet at age 61 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 61 to age 87 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 62 1912: Titanic sinks at age 63 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 63 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 63 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 63 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 64 to age 71 1914-1919: World War I from age 65 to age 70 1914: The Bra at age 65 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 66 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 67 1916: Sonar at age 67 1917: Russian revolution at age 68 1917: US enters WWI at age 68 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 69 to age 84 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 69 to age 71 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 70 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 70 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 71 to age 80 1920: Palestine established at age 71 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 71 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 72 to age 75 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 73 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 76 to age 79 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 76 1926: Sound in Movies at age 77 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 78 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 78 1928: Geiger Counter at age 79 1928: Video Recordings at age 79 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 79 1928: Television at age 79 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 80 to age 83 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 80 to age 90 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 80 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 81 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 82 to age 84 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 84 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 84 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 84 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 84 to age 96 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 85 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 86 to age 87 1935: Dustbowl at age 86 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 87 until after line end 1936: Helicopter at age 87 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 87 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 87 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 88 to age 96 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 88 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 89 1939: Digital Computer at age 90 1939-1945: World War II from age 90 to age 96 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 90 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 91 1940: Color Television at age 91 1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 92 to age 96 1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 93 1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 93 1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 96 until after line end 1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 96 1945: United Nations formed at age 96 1945: Hypertext at age 96 1946-1989: The Cold War from age 97 until after line end 1946: The Bikini at age 97 1947: India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 98 1947: Transistor at age 98 1947: UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 98 1948: 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 99 1948: NATO formed at age 99 1948: Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 99 1948: Israel inaugurated as state at age 99 1949: Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 100 1949: Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 100 1949: 45 rpm musical recordings at age 100

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