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Elizabeth (Blish) Brookfield
Generation:9
Born:March 22nd, 1888
BirthplaceKewanee, Illinois, USA
Died:May 5th, 1932, at about age 44
Died at:Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Burial:Forest Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Father:James Knox Blish, (***)
Mother:Amy Mason (Rhodes) Blish
Occupation(s): ---
Marriages: Arthur Dutton Brookfield
At Kewanee, Illinois, USA
Children:Knox Blish
Dutton Brookfield
Barbara (?) Blish

Elizabeth (Blish) Brookfield
   James Knox BlishAmy Mason (Rhodes) Blish   
 Charles Cheney BlishElizabeth Potter (Bonar) Blish  Albert RhodesAnn Elizabeth (Read) Rhodes 
Sylvester BlishRhoda (Cheney) BlishMatthew BonarCatharine (Cosner) Bonar? Rhodes? (?) Rhodes? Read? (?) Read

Elizabeth (Blish) Brookfield

1888 through 1932

1837-1901 Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover)
1881-1896 5th Cholera pandemic
1885-1888 Grover Cleveland president of US
  1888   Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths
  1888   70...77 rpm musical records
  1889   Holerith invents the punch card
  1889   Washington enters the union - 42nd
1889-1892 Benjamin Harrison president of US
  1889   Montana enters the union - 41st
  1889   South Dakota enters the union - 40th
  1889   North Dakota enters the union - 39th
  1890   Idaho enters the union - 43rd
  1890   Wyoming enters the union - 44th
  1890   Battle of Wounded Knee
  1890   Oklahoma organized as a territory
  1891   Mormon prophesy of coming of lord by 1891 unfulfilled
  1893   New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote
1893-1896 Grover Cleveland president of US
1893-1897 US Financial panic, depression
  1893   Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!)
  1893   Movies
1894-1895 Chinese-Japanese war (1)
  1894   Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die
  1896   Utah enters the union - 45th
  1896   Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation
1897-1901 William McKinley president of US
  1898   Spanish American 1-year war
1899-1902 Boer war
1899-1923 6th Cholera pandemic
  1900   Boxer rebellion in China
  1900   Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed
  1900   Hawaii organized as a territory
  1901   First British submarine launched
1901-1910 Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg)
  1901   Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst)
  1901   Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation
1901-1908 Theodore Roosevelt president of US
  1901   US President William McKinley assassinated
  1901   Commonwealth of Australia founded
  1901   Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts
  1903   Nikola Tesla patents logic gates
  1903   Airplane
  1904   Radar
1904-1905 Russian-Japanese war
  1907   Plastic
  1907   Oklahoma enters the union - 46th
  1908   Tunguska atmospheric object explosion
  1909   Union of South Africa formed
1909-1912 William Howard Taft president of US
  1909   North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Pearys exp.
1910-1936 Reign of King George V (Windsor)
  1910   Japan annexes Korea
  1910   Halleys Comet
  1911   South pole reached by Roald Amundsen
  1912   New Mexico enters the union - 47th
  1912   Titanic sinks
  1912   Arizona enters the union - 48th
  1912   Alaska organized as a territory
1913-1920 Woodrow Wilson president of US
  1914   The Bra
1914-1918 World War I
  1915   Einstein's Theory of Relativity
  1916   Sonar
  1916   Irish Easter Rebellion
  1917   Russian revolution
  1917   US enters WWI
1918-1933 Prohibition
1918-1920 Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die
  1919   League of Nations instantiated
  1919   Shortwave Radio
  1920   Palestine established
1920-1929 Roaring 20s
  1920   Women receive right to vote (US Suffrage)
1921-1924 Warren G Harding president of US
  1922   Insulin made available to diabetics
  1925   Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory
1925-1928 Calvin Coolidge president of US
  1926   Sound in Movies
  1927   Holland Tunnel opens (New York City)
  1927   1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh
  1928   Television
  1928   Geiger Counter
  1928   Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming
  1928   Video Recordings
  1929   Stock Market Crash
1929-1939 Great Depression
1929-1932 Herbert Hoover president of US
  1930   Pluto Discovered
1931-1933 Chinese-Japanese war (2)