Personal Details

Born	July 19th, 1847
Birthplace	Ottowa, Illinois, USA
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Parents

Father	[800]	Joseph Blish 8
Mother	[800sa]	Abigail Ingersoll (Champney) Blish 8

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Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 9	Gen. 8	Gen. 7	Gen. 6	Gen. 5
Susan Dow Blish	Joseph Blish	Joseph Blish	Major Joseph Blish, Jr.	Lieutenant Joseph Blish
				Sarah (?) Crocker
			Temperance (Shaw) Blish	Rev. Oakes Shaw
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		Mehitable (Freeman) Blish	Joshua Freeman	No Entry
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			Mehitable (Blossom) Freeman	? Blossom
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	Abigail Ingersoll (Champney) Blish	William Champney	No Entry	No Entry
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		Elizabeth (Ingersoll) Champney	? Ingersoll	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1847 to 1947

1829-1851: 2nd Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 4 1830-1860: Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US from before birth until age 13 1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 54 1845-1848: James K Polk president of US from before birth until age 1 1845-1849: Irish Potato Famine from before birth until age 2 1846-1848: The Mexican-US War from before birth until age 1 1848: NY allows women to own real estate at age 1 1848: Wisconsin enters the union - 30th at age 1 1848-1856: 1st gold rush in California -- Sutters Mill from age 1 to age 9 1848: Oregon organized as a territory at age 1 1849-1852: Zachary Taylor president of the US from age 2 to age 5 1849: Fizeau measures speed of light at age 2 1850: California enters the union - 31st at age 3 1850: US pop reaches 23 million at age 3 1850: Utah (included Nevada) organized as a territory at age 3 1850: World pop. est. at 1.1 billion at age 3 1850: New Mexico organized as a territory at age 3 1851: Gold rush in Australia at age 4 1852-1859: 3rd Cholera pandemic from age 5 to age 12 1853-1856: Franklin Pierce president of US from age 6 to age 9 1853: Washington (included pt. of Idaho) organized as a territory at age 6 1854-1856: Crimean War from age 7 to age 9 1854: Nebraska organized as a territory at age 7 1854: Kansas organized as a territory at age 7 1857: Dred Scott decision: Blacks could not be US citizens at age 10 1857-1860: James Buchanan president of US from age 10 to age 13 1857-1866: Transatlantic cable laid from age 10 to age 19 1858: India bill transfers government of India to England at age 11 1858: Minnesota enters the union - 32nd at age 11 1859: Oregon enters the union - 33rd at age 12 1859: Oil Well at age 12 1859: Darwin pub. Origin Of Species at age 12 1860: South Carolina Secedes from the Union at age 13 1860: Rifled barrel invented at age 13 1861-1865: Confederate States of America Exist from age 14 to age 18 1861: The Apache Declare War on the US at age 14 1861: Transcontinental Telegraph completed at age 14 1861: Colorado organized as a territory at age 14 1861-1865: Civil War from age 14 to age 18 1861: Gold rush in New Zealand at age 14 1861: Kansas enters the union - 34th at age 14 1861: South Dakota organized as a territory at age 14 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln president of US from age 14 to age 18 1861: North Dakota organized as a territory at age 14 1861: Nevada organized as a territory at age 14 1862: US Homestead act at age 15 1863: Battle of Gettysburg at age 16 1863-1879: 4th Cholera pandemic from age 16 to age 32 1863: Arizona organized as a territory at age 16 1863: Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves at age 16 1863: West Virginia enters the union - 35th at age 16 1863: Idaho organized as a territory at age 16 1864: Louisiana organized as a territory at age 17 1864: Nevada enters the union - 36th at age 17 1865: President Lincoln assassinated at age 18 1865: Ku Klux Klan founded at age 18 1865: Lister invents Disinfection at age 18 1866: Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts) at age 19 1866-1868: Andrew Johnson president of US from age 19 to age 21 1867: Dynamite at age 20 1867: Alaska purchased from Russia at age 20 1867: Confederation of Canada at age 20 1867: Nebraska enters the union - 37th at age 20 1867: Diamonds discovered in South Africa at age 20 1868-1878: War between Cuba and Spain from age 21 to age 31 1869: Trans-continental railroad completed at age 22 1869: Suez canal opened at age 22 1869-1876: Ulysses S Grant president of US from age 22 to age 29 1869: Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold at age 22 1869: Cutty Sark built at age 22 1870: US black men can vote at age 23 1870: 1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) at age 23 1870-1871: Franco-Prussian war from age 23 to age 24 1871: Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 24 1873: Color Photographs at age 26 1873-1878: Depression, banks fail from age 26 to age 31 1876: American Centennial at age 29 1876: Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 29 1876: Little Big Horn - Battle at age 29 1876: Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 29 1877-1880: Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 30 to age 33 1877: Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 30 1878: 1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 31 1879: Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 32 1879: Zulu war at age 32 1881: President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 34 1881: James A Garfield president of US at age 34 1881-1885: Chester Arthur president of US from age 34 to age 38 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from age 34 to age 49 1884: 1st subway at age 37 1884: Motorcycle at age 37 1885: Automobile at age 38 1885-1888: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 38 to age 41 1886: Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 39 1887: X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 40 1888: 70...77 rpm musical records at age 41 1888: Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 41 1889: Montana enters the union - 41st at age 42 1889: South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 42 1889: North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 42 1889: Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 42 1889-1892: Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 42 to age 45 1889: Holerith invents the punch card at age 42 1890: Battle of Wounded Knee at age 43 1890: Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 43 1890: Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 43 1890: Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 43 1891: Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 44 1893: Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 46 1893: Movies at age 46 1893: New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 46 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 46 to age 49 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from age 46 to age 50 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 47 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 47 to age 48 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 49 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 49 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 50 to age 54 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 51 1899-1902: Boer war from age 52 to age 55 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 52 to age 76 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 53 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 53 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 53 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 54 to age 61 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 54 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 54 to age 63 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 54 1901: First British submarine launched at age 54 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 54 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 54 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 54 1903: Airplane at age 56 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 56 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 57 to age 58 1904: Radar at age 57 1907: Plastic at age 60 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 60 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 61 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 62 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 62 to age 65 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 62 1910: Halley's Comet at age 63 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 63 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 63 to age 89 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 64 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 65 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 65 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 65 1912: Titanic sinks at age 65 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 66 to age 73 1914-1919: World War I from age 67 to age 72 1914: The Bra at age 67 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 68 1916: Sonar at age 69 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 69 1917: US enters WWI at age 70 1917: Russian revolution at age 70 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 71 to age 86 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 71 to age 73 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 72 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 72 1920: Palestine established at age 73 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 73 to age 82 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 73 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 74 to age 77 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 75 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 78 to age 81 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 78 1926: Sound in Movies at age 79 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 80 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 80 1928: Geiger Counter at age 81 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 81 1928: Video Recordings at age 81 1928: Television at age 81 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 82 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 82 to age 92 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 82 to age 85 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 83 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 84 to age 86 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 86 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 86 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 86 to age 98 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 86 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 87 1935: Dustbowl at age 88 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 88 to age 89 1936: Helicopter at age 89 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 89 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 89 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 89 until after line end 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 90 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 90 to age 98 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 91 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 92 1939: Digital Computer at age 92 1939-1945: World War II from age 92 to age 98 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 93 1940: Color Television at age 93 1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 94 to age 98 1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 95 1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 95 1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 98 1945: United Nations formed at age 98 1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 98 until after line end 1945: Hypertext at age 98 1946: The Bikini at age 99 1946-1989: The Cold War from age 99 until after line end 1947: UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 100 1947: Transistor at age 100 1947: India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 100

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