Personal Details

Born	July 21st, 1852
Birthplace	Stamford, New York, USA
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Occupation(s)	Attorney, musician (singer, opera company manager), life insurance office manager, travelling salesman
Died	No Entry
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Parents

Father	[688]	Novatus Mapes Blish 7
Mother	[688sa]	Marietta (Cowan) Blish 7

Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [1088sa] - Anna Grace (Van Nostrand) Blish 8 Married by: No Entry Married at: Elgin, Illinois, USA Children by this spouse: I [1331] Novatus Bruce Blish 9 b. September 23rd, 1877 c. December II [1332]+ Helen Grace (Blish) Harper 9 b. February 24th, 1883 c. May III [1333] Elizabeth Wallin Blish 9 b. June 3rd, 1884 c. September IV [1334] Charles Van Nostrand Blish 9 b. January 30th, 1894 c. April

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 8	Gen. 7	Gen. 6	Gen. 5	Gen. 4
Charles Adison Blish	Novatus Mapes Blish	Novatus Blish	Aaron Blish	David Blish, (***)
				Zeruiah (Skinner) Blish
			Roxanna (Webster) Blish	? Webster
				? (?) Webster
		Mary (Mapes) Blish	David Mapes	No Entry
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			? (?) Mapes	No Entry
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	Marietta (Cowan) Blish	John Cowan	No Entry	No Entry
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		Eleanor (Grant) Cowan	? Grant	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1852 to 1952

1830-1860: Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US from before birth until age 8 1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 49 1848-1856: 1st gold rush in California -- Sutters Mill from before birth until age 4 1849-1852: Zachary Taylor president of the US from before birth until age 0 1852-1859: 3rd Cholera pandemic from age 0 to age 7 1853: Washington (included pt. of Idaho) organized as a territory at age 1 1853-1856: Franklin Pierce president of US from age 1 to age 4 1854: Nebraska organized as a territory at age 2 1854-1856: Crimean War from age 2 to age 4 1854: Kansas organized as a territory at age 2 1857-1866: Transatlantic cable laid from age 5 to age 14 1857-1860: James Buchanan president of US from age 5 to age 8 1857: Dred Scott decision: Blacks could not be US citizens at age 5 1858: India bill transfers government of India to England at age 6 1858: Minnesota enters the union - 32nd at age 6 1859: Oil Well at age 7 1859: Darwin pub. Origin Of Species at age 7 1859: Oregon enters the union - 33rd at age 7 1860: South Carolina Secedes from the Union at age 8 1860: Rifled barrel invented at age 8 1861-1865: Civil War from age 9 to age 13 1861-1865: Confederate States of America Exist from age 9 to age 13 1861: The Apache Declare War on the US at age 9 1861: Gold rush in New Zealand at age 9 1861: Transcontinental Telegraph completed at age 9 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln president of US from age 9 to age 13 1861: Colorado organized as a territory at age 9 1861: Kansas enters the union - 34th at age 9 1861: Nevada organized as a territory at age 9 1861: North Dakota organized as a territory at age 9 1861: South Dakota organized as a territory at age 9 1862: US Homestead act at age 10 1863: Battle of Gettysburg at age 11 1863: West Virginia enters the union - 35th at age 11 1863: Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves at age 11 1863: Idaho organized as a territory at age 11 1863-1879: 4th Cholera pandemic from age 11 to age 27 1863: Arizona organized as a territory at age 11 1864: Nevada enters the union - 36th at age 12 1864: Louisiana organized as a territory at age 12 1865: President Lincoln assassinated at age 13 1865: Lister invents Disinfection at age 13 1865: Ku Klux Klan founded at age 13 1866-1868: Andrew Johnson president of US from age 14 to age 16 1866: Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts) at age 14 1867: Confederation of Canada at age 15 1867: Alaska purchased from Russia at age 15 1867: Nebraska enters the union - 37th at age 15 1867: Diamonds discovered in South Africa at age 15 1867: Dynamite at age 15 1868-1878: War between Cuba and Spain from age 16 to age 26 1869: Trans-continental railroad completed at age 17 1869-1876: Ulysses S Grant president of US from age 17 to age 24 1869: Suez canal opened at age 17 1869: Cutty Sark built at age 17 1869: Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold at age 17 1870: 1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) at age 18 1870: US black men can vote at age 18 1870-1871: Franco-Prussian war from age 18 to age 19 1871: Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 19 1873-1878: Depression, banks fail from age 21 to age 26 1873: Color Photographs at age 21 1876: American Centennial at age 24 1876: Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 24 1876: Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 24 1876: Little Big Horn - Battle at age 24 1877: Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 25 1877-1880: Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 25 to age 28 1878: 1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 26 1879: Zulu war at age 27 1879: Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 27 1881-1885: Chester Arthur president of US from age 29 to age 33 1881: James A Garfield president of US at age 29 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from age 29 to age 44 1881: President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 29 1884: 1st subway at age 32 1884: Motorcycle at age 32 1885: Automobile at age 33 1885-1888: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 33 to age 36 1886: Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 34 1887: X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 35 1888: 70...77 rpm musical records at age 36 1888: Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 36 1889: Holerith invents the punch card at age 37 1889: South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 37 1889: Montana enters the union - 41st at age 37 1889: Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 37 1889: North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 37 1889-1892: Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 37 to age 40 1890: Battle of Wounded Knee at age 38 1890: Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 38 1890: Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 38 1890: Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 38 1891: Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 39 1893: Movies at age 41 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 41 to age 44 1893: New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 41 1893: Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 41 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from age 41 to age 45 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 42 to age 43 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 42 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 44 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 44 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 45 to age 49 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 46 1899-1902: Boer war from age 47 to age 50 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 47 to age 71 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 48 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 48 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 48 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 49 to age 56 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 49 to age 58 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 49 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 49 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 49 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 49 1901: First British submarine launched at age 49 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 49 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 51 1903: Airplane at age 51 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 52 to age 53 1904: Radar at age 52 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 55 1907: Plastic at age 55 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 56 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 57 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 57 to age 60 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 57 1910: Halley's Comet at age 58 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 58 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 58 to age 84 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 59 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 60 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 60 1912: Titanic sinks at age 60 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 60 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 61 to age 68 1914: The Bra at age 62 1914-1919: World War I from age 62 to age 67 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 63 1916: Sonar at age 64 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 64 1917: US enters WWI at age 65 1917: Russian revolution at age 65 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 66 to age 81 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 66 to age 68 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 67 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 67 1920: Palestine established at age 68 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 68 to age 77 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 68 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 69 to age 72 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 70 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 73 to age 76 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 73 1926: Sound in Movies at age 74 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 75 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 75 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 76 1928: Video Recordings at age 76 1928: Television at age 76 1928: Geiger Counter at age 76 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 77 to age 80 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 77 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 77 to age 87 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 78 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 79 to age 81 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 81 to age 93 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 81 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 81 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 81 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 82 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 83 to age 84 1935: Dustbowl at age 83 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 84 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 84 to age 100 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 84 1936: Helicopter at age 84 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 85 to age 93 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 85 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 86 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 87 1939: Digital Computer at age 87 1939-1945: World War II from age 87 to age 93 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 88 1940: Color Television at age 88 1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 89 to age 93 1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 90 1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 90 1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 93 to age 100 1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 93 1945: United Nations formed at age 93 1945: Hypertext at age 93 1946: The Bikini at age 94 1946-1989: The Cold War from age 94 until after line end 1947: India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 95 1947: Transistor at age 95 1947: UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 95 1948: Israel inaugurated as state at age 96 1948: NATO formed at age 96 1948: Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 96 1948: 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 96 1949: 45 rpm musical recordings at age 97 1949: Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 97 1949: Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 97 1950-1953: Korean War from age 98 until after line end 1950: World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 98 1950-1954: McCarthyism from age 98 until after line end 1950: Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 98 1951: Electricity from Atomic Power at age 99 1952: 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 100 1952-2050: Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 100 until after line end

Schooling

Institution: Seminary Location: Stamford, New York, USA Curriculum: Degree: Institution: The bar Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA Curriculum: Degree:

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