Personal Details

Born	September 25th, 1875
Birthplace	Marlboro', Connecticut, USA
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Parents

Father	[705]	Theron Blish, originally [Buell] 7
Mother	[718]	Helen Eliza (Blish) Buell 7

Spouses, Mates & Children none known

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 8	Gen. 7	Gen. 6	Gen. 5	Gen. 4
Edith Ruth Buell	Theron Blish, originally [Buell]	Captain Augustus Blish	Roger Blish	David Blish, (***)
				Zeruiah (Skinner) Blish
			Demis (Hosford) Blish	Daniel Hosford
				Mary (?) Hosford
		Delight (Buell) Blish	William Buell, Jr.	No Entry
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			? (?) Buell	No Entry
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	Helen Eliza (Blish) Buell	Chauncy Blish	Roger Blish	David Blish, (***)
				Zeruiah (Skinner) Blish
			Demis (Hosford) Blish	Daniel Hosford
				Mary (?) Hosford
		Esther Maria (Slate) Blish	Lathrop Slate	No Entry
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			Mehitable (Reed) Slate	? Reed
				? (?) Reed

Personalized History Timeline, 1875 to 1975

1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 26 1863-1879: 4th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 4 1868-1878: War between Cuba and Spain from before birth until age 3 1869-1876: Ulysses S Grant president of US from before birth until age 1 1873-1878: Depression, banks fail from before birth until age 3 1876: Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 1 1876: American Centennial at age 1 1876: Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 1 1876: Little Big Horn - Battle at age 1 1877-1880: Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 2 to age 5 1877: Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 2 1878: 1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 3 1879: Zulu war at age 4 1879: Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 4 1881: James A Garfield president of US at age 6 1881-1885: Chester Arthur president of US from age 6 to age 10 1881: President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 6 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from age 6 to age 21 1884: Motorcycle at age 9 1884: 1st subway at age 9 1885-1888: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 10 to age 13 1885: Automobile at age 10 1886: Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 11 1887: X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 12 1888: Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 13 1888: 70...77 rpm musical records at age 13 1889: Holerith invents the punch card at age 14 1889-1892: Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 14 to age 17 1889: Montana enters the union - 41st at age 14 1889: South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 14 1889: Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 14 1889: North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 14 1890: Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 15 1890: Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 15 1890: Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 15 1890: Battle of Wounded Knee at age 15 1891: Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 16 1893: New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 18 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 18 to age 21 1893: Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 18 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from age 18 to age 22 1893: Movies at age 18 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 19 to age 20 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 19 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 21 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 21 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 22 to age 26 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 23 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 24 to age 48 1899-1902: Boer war from age 24 to age 27 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 25 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 25 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 25 1901: First British submarine launched at age 26 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 26 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 26 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 26 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 26 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 26 to age 33 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 26 to age 35 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 26 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 28 1903: Airplane at age 28 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 29 to age 30 1904: Radar at age 29 1907: Plastic at age 32 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 32 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 33 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 34 to age 37 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 34 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 34 1910: Halley's Comet at age 35 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 35 to age 61 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 35 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 36 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 37 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 37 1912: Titanic sinks at age 37 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 37 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 38 to age 45 1914: The Bra at age 39 1914-1919: World War I from age 39 to age 44 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 40 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 41 1916: Sonar at age 41 1917: US enters WWI at age 42 1917: Russian revolution at age 42 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 43 to age 45 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 43 to age 58 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 44 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 44 1920: Palestine established at age 45 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 45 to age 54 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 45 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 46 to age 49 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 47 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 50 to age 53 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 50 1926: Sound in Movies at age 51 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 52 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 52 1928: Geiger Counter at age 53 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 53 1928: Video Recordings at age 53 1928: Television at age 53 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 54 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 54 to age 57 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 54 to age 64 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 55 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 56 to age 58 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 58 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 58 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 58 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 58 to age 70 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 59 1935: Dustbowl at age 60 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 60 to age 61 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 61 1936: Helicopter at age 61 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 61 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 61 to age 77 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 62 to age 70 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 62 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 63 1939-1945: World War II from age 64 to age 70 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 64 1939: Digital Computer at age 64 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 65 1940: Color Television at age 65 1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 66 to age 70 1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 67 1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 67 1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 70 1945: Hypertext at age 70 1945: United Nations formed at age 70 1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 70 to age 77 1946-1989: The Cold War from age 71 until after line end 1946: The Bikini at age 71 1947: India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 72 1947: Transistor at age 72 1947: UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 72 1948: Israel inaugurated as state at age 73 1948: 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 73 1948: NATO formed at age 73 1948: Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 73 1949: 45 rpm musical recordings at age 74 1949: Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 74 1949: Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 74 1950-1954: McCarthyism from age 75 to age 79 1950-1953: Korean War from age 75 to age 78 1950: Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 75 1950: World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 75 1951: Electricity from Atomic Power at age 76 1952: 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 77 1952-2050: Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 77 until after line end 1953-1960: Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 78 to age 85 1954: Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 79 1955: Invention of Velcro at age 80 1955: Warsaw pact formed at age 80 1955: Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 80 1955: Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 80 1956: Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 81 1957: Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 82 1958: Integrated Circuit at age 83 1958: FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 83 1958: Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 83 1958: US space agency (NASA) established at age 83 1959: Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 84 1959: 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 84 1959: Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 84 1960: World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 85 1960: Laser at age 85 1960: 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 85 1960: Pantyhose at age 85 1961: First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 86 1961: 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 86 1961-1970: 7th Cholera pandemic from age 86 to age 95 1961-1963: John F Kennedy president of US from age 86 to age 88 1962: Cuban missile crisis at age 87 1962-1965: Vatican II from age 87 to age 90 1963: Compact Cassette Recordings at age 88 1963: 1st artificial heart at age 88 1963: Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 88 1963-1968: Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 88 to age 93 1964: US civil rights bill at age 89 1964-1975: Vietnam War from age 89 to age 100 1965: Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 90 1965: 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 90 1966: 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 91 1966: 8-track tape players at age 91 1967-1970: Nigerian civil war from age 92 to age 95 1967: Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 92 1967: 1st human heart transplant at age 92 1967: Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 92 1967: Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 92 1968: Martin Luther King assassinated at age 93 1968: Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 93 1969-1974: Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 94 to age 99 1969: Woodstock Music Festival at age 94 1969: Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 94 1970: Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 95 1970: Microprocessor at age 95 1971: Pakistani civil war at age 96 1971: Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 96 1973: The Internet at age 98 1973: October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 98 1974: Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 99 1974-1976: Gerald Ford president of US from age 99 until after line end 1975: Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 100 1975: The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 100 1975: Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 100

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