Personal Details

Born	June 8th, 1893
Birthplace	Kewanee, Illinois, USA
Baptized	No Entry
Baptized at...	No Entry
Baptized by...	No Entry
Baptized in...	No Entry
Occupation(s)	Financial Statistician, Economist, advertising salesman
Died	June 23rd, 1948, aged about 55 years
Died at...	Richmond, Virginia, USA
Cause of Death	No Entry
Burial Place	Old Cemetery, Kewanee, Illinois, USA
Disposition	cremation

Parents

Father	[1037]	James Knox Blish, (***) 8
Mother	[1037_sb]	Amy Mason (Rhodes) Blish 8

Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [1324_sa] - Dorothea (Schneewind) Blish 9 Married by: Rev. Dr. Fortescue Gairdner, Episcopalian Married at: Chicago, Illinois, USA Children by this spouse: I [1380I]+ James Benjamin Blish, B.Sc., Ed. (***) 10 b. May 23rd, 1921 c. August
Wife #2 [1324_sb] - Katharine (Hosking) Blish 9 Married by: No Entry Married at: New York City, NY, USA Children by this spouse: No Records of Children

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 9	Gen. 8	Gen. 7	Gen. 6	Gen. 5
Asa Rhodes Blish, (***)	James Knox Blish, (***)	Charles Cheney Blish, (***)	Colonel Sylvester Blish, (***)	Deacon Thomas Blish, (***)
				Prudence (Hubbard) Blish
			Rhoda (Cheney) Blish	Timothy Cheney
				Rhoda (Skinner) Cheney
		Elizabeth Potter (Bonar) Blish	Matthew Bonar	? Bonar
				? (?) Bonar
			Catharine (Cosner) Bonar	? Cosner
				? (?) Cosner
	Amy Mason (Rhodes) Blish	Albert Rhodes	? Rhodes	No Entry
				No Entry
			? (?) Rhodes	No Entry
				No Entry
		Ann Elizabeth (Read) Rhodes	? Read	No Entry
				No Entry
			? (?) Read	No Entry
				No Entry

Personalized History Timeline, 1893 to 1948

1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 8 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 3 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from age 0 to age 4 1893: Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 0 1893: Movies at age 0 1893: New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 0 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 0 to age 3 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 1 to age 2 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 1 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 3 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 3 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 4 to age 8 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 5 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 6 to age 30 1899-1902: Boer war from age 6 to age 9 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 7 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 7 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 7 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 8 to age 17 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 8 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 8 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 8 to age 15 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 8 1901: First British submarine launched at age 8 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 8 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 8 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 10 1903: Airplane at age 10 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 11 to age 12 1904: Radar at age 11 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 14 1907: Plastic at age 14 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 15 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 16 to age 19 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 16 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 16 1910: Halley's Comet at age 17 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 17 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 17 to age 43 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 18 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 19 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 19 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 19 1912: Titanic sinks at age 19 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 20 to age 27 1914: The Bra at age 21 1914-1919: World War I from age 21 to age 26 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 22 1916: Sonar at age 23 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 23 1917: Russian revolution at age 24 1917: US enters WWI at age 24 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 25 to age 40 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 25 to age 27 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 26 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 26 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 27 to age 36 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 27 1920: Palestine established at age 27 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 28 to age 31 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 29 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 32 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 32 to age 35 1926: Sound in Movies at age 33 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 34 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 34 1928: Television at age 35 1928: Video Recordings at age 35 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 35 1928: Geiger Counter at age 35 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 36 to age 39 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 36 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 36 to age 46 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 37 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 38 to age 40 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 40 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 40 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 40 to age 52 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 40 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 41 1935: Dustbowl at age 42 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 42 to age 43 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 43 until after line end 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 43 1936: Helicopter at age 43 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 43 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 44 to age 52 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 44 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 45 1939-1945: World War II from age 46 to age 52 1939: Digital Computer at age 46 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 46 1940: Color Television at age 47 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 47 1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 48 to age 52 1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 49 1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 49 1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 52 1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 52 until after line end 1945: Hypertext at age 52 1945: United Nations formed at age 52 1946-1989: The Cold War from age 53 until after line end 1946: The Bikini at age 53 1947: India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 54 1947: Transistor at age 54 1947: UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 54 1948: NATO formed at age 55 1948: Israel inaugurated as state at age 55 1948: 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 55 1948: Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 55

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