Personal Details

Born	January 27th, 1901
Birthplace	Seymour, Indiana, USA
Baptized	No Entry
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Occupation(s)	No Entry
Died	December 24th, 1945, aged about 44 years
Died at...	Seymour, Indiana, USA
Cause of Death	Heart failure subsq. To flu
Burial Place	Riverview cemetary, Seymour, Indiana, USA
Disposition	No Entry

Parents

Father	[968]	Meedy Shields Blish 8
Mother	[968sa]	Belle (Everingham) Blish 8

Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [1249_sa] - Francis (Hogan) Blish 9 Married by: No Entry Married at: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Children by this spouse: I [1373d] Barbara Blish 10 b. August 21st, 1931 c. November

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 9	Gen. 8	Gen. 7	Gen. 6	Gen. 5
John Lyman Blish	Meedy Shields Blish	John Hedding Blish	John Blish	Deacon David Blish
				Lucy (Wilcox) Blish
			Merab Ann (Wales) Blish	Stephen Wales
				Mary (?) Wales
		Sarah (Shields) Blish	Meedy White Shields	No Entry
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			Eliza P. (Ewing) Shields	? Ewing
				? (?) Ewing
	Belle (Everingham) Blish	Lyman Everingham	No Entry	No Entry
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		Mary (Dickinson) Everingham	? Dickinson	No Entry
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			? (?) Dickinson	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1901 to 1945

1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 0 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from before birth until age 0 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 22 1899-1902: Boer war from before birth until age 1 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 0 to age 7 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 0 to age 9 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 0 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 0 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 0 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 0 1901: First British submarine launched at age 0 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 0 1903: Airplane at age 2 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 2 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 3 to age 4 1904: Radar at age 3 1907: Plastic at age 6 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 6 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 7 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 8 to age 11 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 8 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 8 1910: Halley's Comet at age 9 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 9 to age 35 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 9 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 10 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 11 1912: Titanic sinks at age 11 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 11 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 11 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 12 to age 19 1914-1919: World War I from age 13 to age 18 1914: The Bra at age 13 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 14 1916: Sonar at age 15 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 15 1917: US enters WWI at age 16 1917: Russian revolution at age 16 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 17 to age 32 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 17 to age 19 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 18 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 18 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 19 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 19 to age 28 1920: Palestine established at age 19 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 20 to age 23 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 21 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 24 to age 27 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 24 1926: Sound in Movies at age 25 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 26 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 26 1928: Television at age 27 1928: Video Recordings at age 27 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 27 1928: Geiger Counter at age 27 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 28 to age 38 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 28 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 28 to age 31 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 29 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 30 to age 32 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 32 to age 44 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 32 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 32 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 32 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 33 1935: Dustbowl at age 34 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 34 to age 35 1936: Helicopter at age 35 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 35 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 35 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 35 until after line end 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 36 to age 44 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 36 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 37 1939: Digital Computer at age 38 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 38 1939-1945: World War II from age 38 to age 44 1940: Color Television at age 39 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 39 1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 40 to age 44 1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 41 1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 41 1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 44 1945: Hypertext at age 44 1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 44 until after line end 1945: United Nations formed at age 44

Additional Information

John Lyman Blish received his early schooling in the grammar and high schools of Seymour, Indiana. He was a graduate of Philips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, and of Yale University with the degree of B.A. While attending Yale he was a member of the Student Army Training Corps through December 1918. Upon his graduation he entered the employ of the Blish Milling Company of Seymour,Indiana. He served the company as treasurer and at the time of his death he was its president. He died of heart failure due to an attack of influenza. He is buried in Seymour at Riverview cemetery. He was also president of the Indiana Millers Association at the time of his death.