Personal Details

Born	April 16th, 1857
Birthplace	Stamford, New York, USA
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Occupation(s)	Dairy farmer
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Parents

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

Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [1090sa] - Alice (Barlow) Blish 8 Married by: No Entry Married at: No Entry Children by this spouse: I [1335] Esther Alma Blish 9 b. March 5th, 1889 c. June

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 8	Gen. 7	Gen. 6	Gen. 5	Gen. 4
John Cowan 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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	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, 1857 to 1957

1830-1860: Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US from before birth until age 3 1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 44 1852-1859: 3rd Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 2 1857: Dred Scott decision: Blacks could not be US citizens at age 0 1857-1866: Transatlantic cable laid from age 0 to age 9 1857-1860: James Buchanan president of US from age 0 to age 3 1858: India bill transfers government of India to England at age 1 1858: Minnesota enters the union - 32nd at age 1 1859: Darwin pub. Origin Of Species at age 2 1859: Oil Well at age 2 1859: Oregon enters the union - 33rd at age 2 1860: South Carolina Secedes from the Union at age 3 1860: Rifled barrel invented at age 3 1861: Transcontinental Telegraph completed at age 4 1861: The Apache Declare War on the US at age 4 1861-1865: Confederate States of America Exist from age 4 to age 8 1861: Kansas enters the union - 34th at age 4 1861: South Dakota organized as a territory at age 4 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln president of US from age 4 to age 8 1861: North Dakota organized as a territory at age 4 1861: Gold rush in New Zealand at age 4 1861-1865: Civil War from age 4 to age 8 1861: Nevada organized as a territory at age 4 1861: Colorado organized as a territory at age 4 1862: US Homestead act at age 5 1863: West Virginia enters the union - 35th at age 6 1863: Battle of Gettysburg at age 6 1863: Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves at age 6 1863: Idaho organized as a territory at age 6 1863: Arizona organized as a territory at age 6 1863-1879: 4th Cholera pandemic from age 6 to age 22 1864: Louisiana organized as a territory at age 7 1864: Nevada enters the union - 36th at age 7 1865: Ku Klux Klan founded at age 8 1865: Lister invents Disinfection at age 8 1865: President Lincoln assassinated at age 8 1866: Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts) at age 9 1866-1868: Andrew Johnson president of US from age 9 to age 11 1867: Nebraska enters the union - 37th at age 10 1867: Dynamite at age 10 1867: Confederation of Canada at age 10 1867: Alaska purchased from Russia at age 10 1867: Diamonds discovered in South Africa at age 10 1868-1878: War between Cuba and Spain from age 11 to age 21 1869: Suez canal opened at age 12 1869: Cutty Sark built at age 12 1869: Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold at age 12 1869-1876: Ulysses S Grant president of US from age 12 to age 19 1869: Trans-continental railroad completed at age 12 1870: 1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) at age 13 1870-1871: Franco-Prussian war from age 13 to age 14 1870: US black men can vote at age 13 1871: Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 14 1873: Color Photographs at age 16 1873-1878: Depression, banks fail from age 16 to age 21 1876: Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 19 1876: American Centennial at age 19 1876: Little Big Horn - Battle at age 19 1876: Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 19 1877-1880: Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 20 to age 23 1877: Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 20 1878: 1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 21 1879: Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 22 1879: Zulu war at age 22 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from age 24 to age 39 1881: James A Garfield president of US at age 24 1881: President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 24 1881-1885: Chester Arthur president of US from age 24 to age 28 1884: 1st subway at age 27 1884: Motorcycle at age 27 1885: Automobile at age 28 1885-1888: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 28 to age 31 1886: Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 29 1887: X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 30 1888: 70...77 rpm musical records at age 31 1888: Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 31 1889: Montana enters the union - 41st at age 32 1889: Holerith invents the punch card at age 32 1889: South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 32 1889: Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 32 1889-1892: Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 32 to age 35 1889: North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 32 1890: Battle of Wounded Knee at age 33 1890: Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 33 1890: Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 33 1890: Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 33 1891: Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 34 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from age 36 to age 40 1893: New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 36 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 36 to age 39 1893: Movies at age 36 1893: Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 36 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 37 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 37 to age 38 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 39 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 39 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 40 to age 44 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 41 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 42 to age 66 1899-1902: Boer war from age 42 to age 45 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 43 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 43 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 43 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 44 to age 51 1901: First British submarine launched at age 44 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 44 to age 53 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 44 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 44 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 44 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 44 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 44 1903: Airplane at age 46 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 46 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 47 to age 48 1904: Radar at age 47 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 50 1907: Plastic at age 50 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 51 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 52 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 52 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 52 to age 55 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 53 1910: Halley's Comet at age 53 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 53 to age 79 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 54 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 55 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 55 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 55 1912: Titanic sinks at age 55 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 56 to age 63 1914: The Bra at age 57 1914-1919: World War I from age 57 to age 62 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 58 1916: Sonar at age 59 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 59 1917: Russian revolution at age 60 1917: US enters WWI at age 60 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 61 to age 76 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 61 to age 63 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 62 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 62 1920: Palestine established at age 63 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 63 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 63 to age 72 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 64 to age 67 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 65 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 68 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 68 to age 71 1926: Sound in Movies at age 69 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 70 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 70 1928: Geiger Counter at age 71 1928: Video Recordings at age 71 1928: Television at age 71 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 71 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 72 to age 75 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 72 to age 82 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 72 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 73 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 74 to age 76 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 76 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 76 to age 88 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 76 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 76 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 77 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 78 to age 79 1935: Dustbowl at age 78 1936: Helicopter at age 79 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 79 to age 95 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 79 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 79 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 80 to age 88 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 80 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 81 1939: Digital Computer at age 82 1939-1945: World War II from age 82 to age 88 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 82 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 83 1940: Color Television at age 83 1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 84 to age 88 1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 85 1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 85 1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 88 to age 95 1945: United Nations formed at age 88 1945: Hypertext at age 88 1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 88 1946: The Bikini at age 89 1946-1989: The Cold War from age 89 until after line end 1947: India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 90 1947: UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 90 1947: Transistor at age 90 1948: NATO formed at age 91 1948: 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 91 1948: Israel inaugurated as state at age 91 1948: Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 91 1949: Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 92 1949: 45 rpm musical recordings at age 92 1949: Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 92 1950: Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 93 1950-1954: McCarthyism from age 93 to age 97 1950: World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 93 1950-1953: Korean War from age 93 to age 96 1951: Electricity from Atomic Power at age 94 1952-2050: Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 95 until after line end 1952: 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 95 1953-1960: Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 96 until after line end 1954: Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 97 1955: Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 98 1955: Warsaw pact formed at age 98 1955: Invention of Velcro at age 98 1955: Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 98 1956: Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 99 1957: Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 100

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