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1251
Elbridge Blish Thompson 9 [m]
9th Generation

Personal Details
Born August 2nd, 1882 No Image On File
Birthplace Seymour, Indiana, USA
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Parents
Father [969sa]Elbridge Gerry Thompson 8 No Image On File
Mother [969]Emma Merab (Blish) Thompson 8 No Image On File

Spouses, Mates & Children none known

Immediate Family Tree
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Elbridge Blish ThompsonElbridge Gerry ThompsonJames ThompsonNo EntryNo Entry
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Mary Elizabeth (?) ThompsonNo EntryNo Entry
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Emma Merab (Blish) ThompsonJohn Hedding BlishJohn BlishDeacon David Blish
Lucy (Wilcox) Blish
Merab Ann (Wales) BlishStephen Wales
Mary (?) Wales
Sarah (Shields) BlishMeedy White ShieldsNo Entry
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Eliza P. (Ewing) Shields? Ewing
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Personalized History Timeline, 1882 to 1982
1837-1901:
Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 19
1881-1896:
5th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 14
1881-1885:
Chester Arthur president of US from before birth until age 3
1884:
1st subway at age 2
1884:
Motorcycle at age 2
1885:
Automobile at age 3
1885-1888:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 3 to age 6
1886:
Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 4
1887:
X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 5
1888:
70...77 rpm musical records at age 6
1888:
Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 6
1889:
Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 7
1889:
Montana enters the union - 41st at age 7
1889-1892:
Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 7 to age 10
1889:
Holerith invents the punch card at age 7
1889:
North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 7
1889:
South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 7
1890:
Battle of Wounded Knee at age 8
1890:
Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 8
1890:
Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 8
1890:
Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 8
1891:
Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 9
1893:
New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 11
1893-1896:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 11 to age 14
1893:
Movies at age 11
1893-1897:
US Financial panic, depression from age 11 to age 15
1893:
Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 11
1894:
Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 12
1894-1895:
Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 12 to age 13
1896:
Utah enters the union - 45th at age 14
1896:
Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 14
1897-1901:
William McKinley president of US from age 15 to age 19
1898:
Spanish American 1-year war at age 16
1899-1923:
6th Cholera pandemic from age 17 to age 41
1899-1902:
Boer war from age 17 to age 20
1900:
Hawaii organized as a territory at age 18
1900:
Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 18
1900:
Boxer rebellion in China at age 18
1901:
Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 19
1901-1908:
Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 19 to age 26
1901:
Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 19
1901:
Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 19
1901:
Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 19
1901:
First British submarine launched at age 19
1901-1910:
Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 19 to age 28
1901:
US President William McKinley assassinated at age 19
1903:
Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 21
1903:
Airplane at age 21
1904:
Radar at age 22
1904-1905:
Russian-Japanese war from age 22 to age 23
1907:
Plastic at age 25
1907:
Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 25
1908:
Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 26
1909:
Union of South Africa formed at age 27
1909-1912:
William Howard Taft president of US from age 27 to age 30
1909:
North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 27
1910:
Halley's Comet at age 28
1910:
Japan annexes Korea at age 28
1910-1936:
Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 28 to age 54
1911:
South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 29
1912:
New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 30
1912:
Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 30
1912:
Titanic sinks at age 30
1912:
Alaska organized as a territory at age 30
1913-1920:
Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 31 to age 38
1914:
The Bra at age 32
1914-1919:
World War I from age 32 to age 37
1915:
Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 33
1916:
Irish Easter Rebellion at age 34
1916:
Sonar at age 34
1917:
Russian revolution at age 35
1917:
US enters WWI at age 35
1918-1933:
Prohibition from age 36 to age 51
1918-1920:
Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 36 to age 38
1919:
Shortwave Radio at age 37
1919:
League of Nations instantiated at age 37
1920-1929:
Roaring 20's from age 38 to age 47
1920:
Palestine established at age 38
1920:
Women receive right to vote in USA at age 38
1921-1924:
Warren G Harding president of US from age 39 to age 42
1922:
Insulin made available to diabetics at age 40
1925-1928:
Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 43 to age 46
1925:
Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 43
1926:
Sound in Movies at age 44
1927:
1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 45
1927:
Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 45
1928:
Geiger Counter at age 46
1928:
Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 46
1928:
Television at age 46
1928:
Video Recordings at age 46
1929:
Stock Market Crash at age 47
1929-1939:
Great Depression from age 47 to age 57
1929-1932:
Herbert Hoover president of US from age 47 to age 50
1930:
Pluto Discovered at age 48
1931-1933:
Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 49 to age 51
1933:
Radio Astronomy at age 51
1933:
Soviet communist party purge at age 51
1933-1945:
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 51 to age 63
1933:
Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 51
1934:
Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 52
1935-1936:
Abyssinian war from age 53 to age 54
1935:
Dustbowl at age 53
1936:
Spanish Civil War at age 54
1936:
Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 54
1936-1952:
Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 54 to age 70
1936:
Helicopter at age 54
1937-1945:
Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 55 to age 63
1937:
Nylon (by DuPont) at age 55
1938:
Germany annexes Austria at age 56
1939:
Digital Computer at age 57
1939-1945:
World War II from age 57 to age 63
1939:
Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 57
1940:
Color Television at age 58
1940:
1st black general in US army at age 58
1941-1945:
Manhattan Project from age 59 to age 63
1942:
Magnetic Recording Tape at age 60
1942:
Nuclear Reactor at age 60
1945-1952:
Harry S Truman president of US from age 63 to age 70
1945:
Hypertext at age 63
1945:
United Nations formed at age 63
1945:
US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 63
1946:
The Bikini at age 64
1946-1989:
The Cold War from age 64 until after line end
1947:
Transistor at age 65
1947:
India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 65
1947:
UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 65
1948:
NATO formed at age 66
1948:
Israel inaugurated as state at age 66
1948:
Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 66
1948:
33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 66
1949:
Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 67
1949:
Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 67
1949:
45 rpm musical recordings at age 67
1950-1954:
McCarthyism from age 68 to age 72
1950:
Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 68
1950-1953:
Korean War from age 68 to age 71
1950:
World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 68
1951:
Electricity from Atomic Power at age 69
1952:
1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 70
1952-2050:
Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 70 until after line end
1953-1960:
Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 71 to age 78
1954:
Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 72
1955:
Warsaw pact formed at age 73
1955:
Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 73
1955:
Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 73
1955:
Invention of Velcro at age 73
1956:
Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 74
1957:
Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 75
1958:
Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 76
1958:
US space agency (NASA) established at age 76
1958:
FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 76
1958:
Integrated Circuit at age 76
1959:
Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 77
1959:
1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 77
1959:
Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 77
1960:
Laser at age 78
1960:
1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 78
1960:
Pantyhose at age 78
1960:
World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 78
1961:
First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 79
1961:
1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 79
1961-1963:
John F Kennedy president of US from age 79 to age 81
1961-1970:
7th Cholera pandemic from age 79 to age 88
1962:
Cuban missile crisis at age 80
1962-1965:
Vatican II from age 80 to age 83
1963-1968:
Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 81 to age 86
1963:
Compact Cassette Recordings at age 81
1963:
1st artificial heart at age 81
1963:
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 81
1964-1975:
Vietnam War from age 82 to age 93
1964:
US civil rights bill at age 82
1965:
Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 83
1965:
1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 83
1966:
8-track tape players at age 84
1966:
1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 84
1967:
Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 85
1967:
Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 85
1967-1970:
Nigerian civil war from age 85 to age 88
1967:
1st human heart transplant at age 85
1967:
Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 85
1968:
Martin Luther King assassinated at age 86
1968:
Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 86
1969-1974:
Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 87 to age 92
1969:
Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 87
1969:
Woodstock Music Festival at age 87
1970:
Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 88
1970:
Microprocessor at age 88
1971:
Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 89
1971:
Pakistani civil war at age 89
1973:
October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 91
1973:
The Internet at age 91
1974:
Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 92
1974-1976:
Gerald Ford president of US from age 92 to age 94
1975:
The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 93
1975:
Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 93
1975:
Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 93
1976:
Television begins satellite delivery at age 94
1976:
VHS Video Recordings at age 94
1976:
American Bicentennial at age 94
1976:
Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 94
1977-1980:
James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 95 to age 98
1977:
Neutron bomb at age 95
1978:
1st test-tube baby at age 96
1978:
Laserdisc video recordings at age 96
1978:
Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 96
1979:
Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 97
1979:
Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 97
1980:
Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 98
1981:
1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 99
1981:
1st female supreme court justice at age 99
1981-1988:
Ronald Reagan president of US from age 99 until after line end
1981:
IBM PC ships at age 99
1982:
1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 100

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