Personal Details

Born	September 8th, 1876
Birthplace	St. Louis, MO, USA
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Occupation(s)	bookkeeper
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Parents

Father	[671]	George Cheney Blish 7
Mother	[671sa]	Marie Therese (Nievergelder) Blish 7

Spouses, Mates & Children none known

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 8	Gen. 7	Gen. 6	Gen. 5	Gen. 4
George Joseph Blish	George Cheney Blish	Colonel Sylvester Blish, (***)	Deacon Thomas Blish, (***)	David Blish, (***)
				Zeruiah (Skinner) Blish
			Prudence (Hubbard) Blish	Elizur Hubbard
				Abigail (Hollister) Hubbard
		Rhoda (Cheney) Blish	Timothy Cheney	? Cheney
				? (?) Cheney
			Rhoda (Skinner) Cheney	? Skinner
				? (?) Skinner
	Marie Therese (Nievergelder) Blish	Louis Nievergelder	No Entry	No Entry
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		Ernestine (Schmitt) Nievergelder	? Schmitt	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1876 to 1976

1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 25 1863-1879: 4th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 3 1868-1878: War between Cuba and Spain from before birth until age 2 1869-1876: Ulysses S Grant president of US from before birth until age 0 1873-1878: Depression, banks fail from before birth until age 2 1876: American Centennial at age 0 1876: Little Big Horn - Battle at age 0 1876: Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 0 1876: Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 0 1877-1880: Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 1 to age 4 1877: Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 1 1878: 1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 2 1879: Zulu war at age 3 1879: Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 3 1881-1885: Chester Arthur president of US from age 5 to age 9 1881: James A Garfield president of US at age 5 1881: President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 5 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from age 5 to age 20 1884: 1st subway at age 8 1884: Motorcycle at age 8 1885-1888: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 9 to age 12 1885: Automobile at age 9 1886: Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 10 1887: X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 11 1888: Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 12 1888: 70...77 rpm musical records at age 12 1889-1892: Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 13 to age 16 1889: Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 13 1889: Montana enters the union - 41st at age 13 1889: North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 13 1889: Holerith invents the punch card at age 13 1889: South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 13 1890: Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 14 1890: Battle of Wounded Knee at age 14 1890: Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 14 1890: Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 14 1891: Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 15 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 17 to age 20 1893: New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 17 1893: Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 17 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from age 17 to age 21 1893: Movies at age 17 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 18 to age 19 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 18 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 20 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 20 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 21 to age 25 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 22 1899-1902: Boer war from age 23 to age 26 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 23 to age 47 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 24 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 24 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 24 1901: First British submarine launched at age 25 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 25 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 25 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 25 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 25 to age 34 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 25 to age 32 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 25 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 25 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 27 1903: Airplane at age 27 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 28 to age 29 1904: Radar at age 28 1907: Plastic at age 31 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 31 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 32 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 33 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 33 to age 36 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 33 1910: Halley's Comet at age 34 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 34 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 34 to age 60 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 35 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 36 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 36 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 36 1912: Titanic sinks at age 36 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 37 to age 44 1914: The Bra at age 38 1914-1919: World War I from age 38 to age 43 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 39 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 40 1916: Sonar at age 40 1917: US enters WWI at age 41 1917: Russian revolution at age 41 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 42 to age 57 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 42 to age 44 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 43 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 43 1920: Palestine established at age 44 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 44 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 44 to age 53 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 45 to age 48 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 46 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 49 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 49 to age 52 1926: Sound in Movies at age 50 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 51 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 51 1928: Geiger Counter at age 52 1928: Video Recordings at age 52 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 52 1928: Television at age 52 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 53 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 53 to age 63 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 53 to age 56 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 54 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 55 to age 57 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 57 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 57 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 57 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 57 to age 69 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 58 1935: Dustbowl at age 59 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 59 to age 60 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 60 to age 76 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 60 1936: Helicopter at age 60 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 60 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 61 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 61 to age 69 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 62 1939: Digital Computer at age 63 1939-1945: World War II from age 63 to age 69 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 63 1940: Color Television at age 64 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 64 1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 65 to age 69 1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 66 1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 66 1945: United Nations formed at age 69 1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 69 1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 69 to age 76 1945: Hypertext at age 69 1946: The Bikini at age 70 1946-1989: The Cold War from age 70 until after line end 1947: India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 71 1947: UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 71 1947: Transistor at age 71 1948: NATO formed at age 72 1948: Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 72 1948: Israel inaugurated as state at age 72 1948: 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 72 1949: Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 73 1949: 45 rpm musical recordings at age 73 1949: Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 73 1950: World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 74 1950: Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 74 1950-1953: Korean War from age 74 to age 77 1950-1954: McCarthyism from age 74 to age 78 1951: Electricity from Atomic Power at age 75 1952-2050: Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 76 until after line end 1952: 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 76 1953-1960: Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 77 to age 84 1954: Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 78 1955: Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 79 1955: Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 79 1955: Warsaw pact formed at age 79 1955: Invention of Velcro at age 79 1956: Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 80 1957: Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 81 1958: Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 82 1958: Integrated Circuit at age 82 1958: US space agency (NASA) established at age 82 1958: FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 82 1959: Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 83 1959: Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 83 1959: 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 83 1960: Pantyhose at age 84 1960: Laser at age 84 1960: 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 84 1960: World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 84 1961: 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 85 1961: First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 85 1961-1963: John F Kennedy president of US from age 85 to age 87 1961-1970: 7th Cholera pandemic from age 85 to age 94 1962: Cuban missile crisis at age 86 1962-1965: Vatican II from age 86 to age 89 1963: 1st artificial heart at age 87 1963: Compact Cassette Recordings at age 87 1963-1968: Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 87 to age 92 1963: Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 87 1964-1975: Vietnam War from age 88 to age 99 1964: US civil rights bill at age 88 1965: Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 89 1965: 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 89 1966: 8-track tape players at age 90 1966: 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 90 1967: Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 91 1967-1970: Nigerian civil war from age 91 to age 94 1967: Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 91 1967: 1st human heart transplant at age 91 1967: Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 91 1968: Martin Luther King assassinated at age 92 1968: Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 92 1969-1974: Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 93 to age 98 1969: Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 93 1969: Woodstock Music Festival at age 93 1970: Microprocessor at age 94 1970: Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 94 1971: Pakistani civil war at age 95 1971: Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 95 1973: October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 97 1973: The Internet at age 97 1974-1976: Gerald Ford president of US from age 98 to age 100 1974: Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 98 1975: Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 99 1975: Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 99 1975: The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 99 1976: VHS Video Recordings at age 100 1976: Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 100 1976: Television begins satellite delivery at age 100 1976: American Bicentennial at age 100

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