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1194
Frank Dwight Blish 9 [m]
9th Generation

Personal Details
Born August 9th, 1873 No Image On File
Birthplace Willimantic, Connecticut, USA
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Occupation(s) Grocery store owner
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Parents
Father [881]Dwight Frank Blish 8 No Image On File
Mother [881sa]Wilhelmine (Graff) Blish 8 No Image On File

Spouses, Mates & Children
Wife #1
[1194sa] - Mary Grace (Bill) Blish 9

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Married at: West Springfield, Massachusetts, USA

Children by this spouse:
I [1370] Lester Henry Blish 10 b. December 7th, 1896 c. March No Image On File
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Immediate Family Tree
Gen. 9 Gen. 8 Gen. 7 Gen. 6 Gen. 5
Frank Dwight BlishDwight Frank BlishHenry "Frank H." Francis BlishRobert Stiles BlishEzra Blish
Hannah (Hills) Blish
Dorothy "Dolly" (McCall) BlishElisha McCall
? (?) McCall
Sarah (Freeman) BlishCharles FreemanNo Entry
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Betsey (Tisdale) Freeman? Tisdale
? (?) Tisdale
Wilhelmine (Graff) BlishPhilip GraffNo EntryNo Entry
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Philopena (Adams) Graff? AdamsNo Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1873 to 1973
1837-1901:
Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 28
1863-1879:
4th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 6
1868-1878:
War between Cuba and Spain from before birth until age 5
1869-1876:
Ulysses S Grant president of US from before birth until age 3
1873-1878:
Depression, banks fail from age 0 to age 5
1873:
Color Photographs at age 0
1876:
Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 3
1876:
Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 3
1876:
Little Big Horn - Battle at age 3
1876:
American Centennial at age 3
1877:
Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 4
1877-1880:
Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 4 to age 7
1878:
1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 5
1879:
Zulu war at age 6
1879:
Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 6
1881-1885:
Chester Arthur president of US from age 8 to age 12
1881:
President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 8
1881:
James A Garfield president of US at age 8
1881-1896:
5th Cholera pandemic from age 8 to age 23
1884:
1st subway at age 11
1884:
Motorcycle at age 11
1885-1888:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 12 to age 15
1885:
Automobile at age 12
1886:
Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 13
1887:
X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 14
1888:
Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 15
1888:
70...77 rpm musical records at age 15
1889:
South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 16
1889:
Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 16
1889:
Holerith invents the punch card at age 16
1889:
Montana enters the union - 41st at age 16
1889-1892:
Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 16 to age 19
1889:
North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 16
1890:
Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 17
1890:
Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 17
1890:
Battle of Wounded Knee at age 17
1890:
Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 17
1891:
Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 18
1893-1897:
US Financial panic, depression from age 20 to age 24
1893-1896:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 20 to age 23
1893:
New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 20
1893:
Movies at age 20
1893:
Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 20
1894:
Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 21
1894-1895:
Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 21 to age 22
1896:
Utah enters the union - 45th at age 23
1896:
Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 23
1897-1901:
William McKinley president of US from age 24 to age 28
1898:
Spanish American 1-year war at age 25
1899-1902:
Boer war from age 26 to age 29
1899-1923:
6th Cholera pandemic from age 26 to age 50
1900:
Boxer rebellion in China at age 27
1900:
Hawaii organized as a territory at age 27
1900:
Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 27
1901:
Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 28
1901-1908:
Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 28 to age 35
1901:
First British submarine launched at age 28
1901-1910:
Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 28 to age 37
1901:
Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 28
1901:
US President William McKinley assassinated at age 28
1901:
Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 28
1901:
Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 28
1903:
Airplane at age 30
1903:
Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 30
1904-1905:
Russian-Japanese war from age 31 to age 32
1904:
Radar at age 31
1907:
Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 34
1907:
Plastic at age 34
1908:
Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 35
1909:
North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 36
1909:
Union of South Africa formed at age 36
1909-1912:
William Howard Taft president of US from age 36 to age 39
1910:
Halley's Comet at age 37
1910:
Japan annexes Korea at age 37
1910-1936:
Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 37 to age 63
1911:
South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 38
1912:
Alaska organized as a territory at age 39
1912:
Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 39
1912:
Titanic sinks at age 39
1912:
New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 39
1913-1920:
Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 40 to age 47
1914:
The Bra at age 41
1914-1919:
World War I from age 41 to age 46
1915:
Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 42
1916:
Irish Easter Rebellion at age 43
1916:
Sonar at age 43
1917:
Russian revolution at age 44
1917:
US enters WWI at age 44
1918-1933:
Prohibition from age 45 to age 60
1918-1920:
Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 45 to age 47
1919:
League of Nations instantiated at age 46
1919:
Shortwave Radio at age 46
1920:
Palestine established at age 47
1920-1929:
Roaring 20's from age 47 to age 56
1920:
Women receive right to vote in USA at age 47
1921-1924:
Warren G Harding president of US from age 48 to age 51
1922:
Insulin made available to diabetics at age 49
1925-1928:
Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 52 to age 55
1925:
Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 52
1926:
Sound in Movies at age 53
1927:
Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 54
1927:
1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 54
1928:
Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 55
1928:
Video Recordings at age 55
1928:
Television at age 55
1928:
Geiger Counter at age 55
1929:
Stock Market Crash at age 56
1929-1939:
Great Depression from age 56 to age 66
1929-1932:
Herbert Hoover president of US from age 56 to age 59
1930:
Pluto Discovered at age 57
1931-1933:
Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 58 to age 60
1933:
Radio Astronomy at age 60
1933:
Soviet communist party purge at age 60
1933:
Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 60
1933-1945:
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 60 to age 72
1934:
Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 61
1935:
Dustbowl at age 62
1935-1936:
Abyssinian war from age 62 to age 63
1936:
Helicopter at age 63
1936-1952:
Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 63 to age 79
1936:
Spanish Civil War at age 63
1936:
Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 63
1937:
Nylon (by DuPont) at age 64
1937-1945:
Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 64 to age 72
1938:
Germany annexes Austria at age 65
1939:
Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 66
1939:
Digital Computer at age 66
1939-1945:
World War II from age 66 to age 72
1940:
1st black general in US army at age 67
1940:
Color Television at age 67
1941-1945:
Manhattan Project from age 68 to age 72
1942:
Nuclear Reactor at age 69
1942:
Magnetic Recording Tape at age 69
1945:
US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 72
1945-1952:
Harry S Truman president of US from age 72 to age 79
1945:
United Nations formed at age 72
1945:
Hypertext at age 72
1946-1989:
The Cold War from age 73 until after line end
1946:
The Bikini at age 73
1947:
Transistor at age 74
1947:
India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 74
1947:
UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 74
1948:
Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 75
1948:
33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 75
1948:
NATO formed at age 75
1948:
Israel inaugurated as state at age 75
1949:
45 rpm musical recordings at age 76
1949:
Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 76
1949:
Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 76
1950-1953:
Korean War from age 77 to age 80
1950:
Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 77
1950:
World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 77
1950-1954:
McCarthyism from age 77 to age 81
1951:
Electricity from Atomic Power at age 78
1952-2050:
Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 79 until after line end
1952:
1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 79
1953-1960:
Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 80 to age 87
1954:
Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 81
1955:
Warsaw pact formed at age 82
1955:
Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 82
1955:
Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 82
1955:
Invention of Velcro at age 82
1956:
Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 83
1957:
Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 84
1958:
Integrated Circuit at age 85
1958:
Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 85
1958:
FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 85
1958:
US space agency (NASA) established at age 85
1959:
Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 86
1959:
Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 86
1959:
1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 86
1960:
Pantyhose at age 87
1960:
1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 87
1960:
Laser at age 87
1960:
World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 87
1961:
1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 88
1961-1963:
John F Kennedy president of US from age 88 to age 90
1961-1970:
7th Cholera pandemic from age 88 to age 97
1961:
First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 88
1962-1965:
Vatican II from age 89 to age 92
1962:
Cuban missile crisis at age 89
1963:
Compact Cassette Recordings at age 90
1963:
1st artificial heart at age 90
1963-1968:
Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 90 to age 95
1963:
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 90
1964:
US civil rights bill at age 91
1964-1975:
Vietnam War from age 91 until after line end
1965:
Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 92
1965:
1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 92
1966:
1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 93
1966:
8-track tape players at age 93
1967-1970:
Nigerian civil war from age 94 to age 97
1967:
Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 94
1967:
Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 94
1967:
1st human heart transplant at age 94
1967:
Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 94
1968:
Martin Luther King assassinated at age 95
1968:
Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 95
1969:
Woodstock Music Festival at age 96
1969-1974:
Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 96 until after line end
1969:
Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 96
1970:
Microprocessor at age 97
1970:
Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 97
1971:
Pakistani civil war at age 98
1971:
Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 98
1973:
October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 100
1973:
The Internet at age 100

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