Personal Details

Born	February 13th, 1878
Birthplace	Chicago, IL
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Died	March 21st, 1955, aged about 77 years
Died at...	Aboard a train Florida-Kansas City, USA
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Burial Place	Forest Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, MO, USA
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Parents

Father	[1322_sa_f]	Edwin T. Brookfield 8
Mother	[1322_sa_m]	Caroline (Winslow) Brookfield 8

Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [1322] - Elizabeth (Blish) Brookfield 9 Married by: No Entry Married at: Kewanee, IL, USA Children by this spouse: I [1380D] Knox Blish, originally [Brookfield] 10 [adopted] b. April 20th, 1917 c. July II [1380E]+ Dutton Brookfield 10 b. December 31st, 1918 c. March III [1380F] Barbara (?) Blish, originally [Brookfield] 10 [adopted] b. June 18th, 1924 c. September

Immediate Family Tree

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	Caroline (Winslow) Brookfield	No Entry	No Entry	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1878 to 1955

1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 23 1863-1879: 4th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 1 1868-1878: War between Cuba and Spain from before birth until age 0 1873-1878: Depression, banks fail from before birth until age 0 1877-1880: Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from before birth until age 2 1878: 1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 0 1879: Zulu war at age 1 1879: Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 1 1881: President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 3 1881-1885: Chester Arthur president of US from age 3 to age 7 1881: James A Garfield president of US at age 3 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from age 3 to age 18 1884: Motorcycle at age 6 1884: 1st subway at age 6 1885: Automobile at age 7 1885-1888: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 7 to age 10 1886: Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 8 1887: X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 9 1888: Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 10 1888: 70...77 rpm musical records at age 10 1889: Holerith invents the punch card at age 11 1889: Montana enters the union - 41st at age 11 1889: South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 11 1889: Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 11 1889: North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 11 1889-1892: Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 11 to age 14 1890: Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 12 1890: Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 12 1890: Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 12 1890: Battle of Wounded Knee at age 12 1891: Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 13 1893: New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 15 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 15 to age 18 1893: Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 15 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from age 15 to age 19 1893: Movies at age 15 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 16 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 16 to age 17 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 18 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 18 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 19 to age 23 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 20 1899-1902: Boer war from age 21 to age 24 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 21 to age 45 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 22 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 22 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 22 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 23 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 23 to age 32 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 23 to age 30 1901: First British submarine launched at age 23 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 23 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 23 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 23 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 23 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 25 1903: Airplane at age 25 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 26 to age 27 1904: Radar at age 26 1907: Plastic at age 29 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 29 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 30 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 31 to age 34 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 31 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 31 1910: Halley's Comet at age 32 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 32 to age 58 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 32 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 33 1912: Titanic sinks at age 34 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 34 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 34 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 34 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 35 to age 42 1914: The Bra at age 36 1914-1919: World War I from age 36 to age 41 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 37 1916: Sonar at age 38 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 38 1917: Russian revolution at age 39 1917: US enters WWI at age 39 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 40 to age 42 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 40 to age 55 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 41 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 41 1920: Palestine established at age 42 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 42 to age 51 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 42 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 43 to age 46 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 44 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 47 to age 50 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 47 1926: Sound in Movies at age 48 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 49 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 49 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 50 1928: Television at age 50 1928: Geiger Counter at age 50 1928: Video Recordings at age 50 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 51 to age 54 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 51 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 51 to age 61 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 52 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 53 to age 55 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 55 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 55 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 55 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 55 to age 67 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 56 1935: Dustbowl at age 57 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 57 to age 58 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 58 to age 74 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 58 1936: Helicopter at age 58 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 58 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 59 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 59 to age 67 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 60 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 61 1939: Digital Computer at age 61 1939-1945: World War II from age 61 to age 67 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 62 1940: Color Television at age 62 1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 63 to age 67 1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 64 1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 64 1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 67 to age 74 1945: Hypertext at age 67 1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 67 1945: United Nations formed at age 67 1946-1989: The Cold War from age 68 until after line end 1946: The Bikini at age 68 1947: Transistor at age 69 1947: UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 69 1947: India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 69 1948: 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 70 1948: Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 70 1948: Israel inaugurated as state at age 70 1948: NATO formed at age 70 1949: Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 71 1949: 45 rpm musical recordings at age 71 1949: Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 71 1950-1953: Korean War from age 72 to age 75 1950: World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 72 1950: Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 72 1950-1954: McCarthyism from age 72 to age 76 1951: Electricity from Atomic Power at age 73 1952: 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 74 1952-2050: Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 74 until after line end 1953-1960: Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 75 until after line end 1954: Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 76 1955: Invention of Velcro at age 77 1955: Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 77 1955: Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 77 1955: Warsaw pact formed at age 77

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