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1374
Herbert Harger Blish 10 [m]
10th Generation

Personal Details
Born January 4th, 1889 No Image On File
Birthplace Dubuque, Iowa, USA
Baptized No Entry
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Occupation(s) No Entry
Died December, 1937, aged about 48 years
Died at... Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Cause of Death heart attack
Burial Place Linwood Cemetery, Dubuque, Iowa, USA
Disposition No Entry

Parents
Father [1318]Henry Herbert Blish 9 No Image On File
Mother [1318sa]Elizabeth Morse (Maclay) Blish 9 No Image On File

Spouses, Mates & Children none known

Immediate Family Tree
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Herbert Harger BlishHenry Herbert BlishHenry Sylvester BlishThomas BlishColonel Sylvester Blish, (***)
Rhoda (Cheney) Blish
Wealthy Ann (Buck) BlishHalsey Buck
Sarah (Wood) Buck
Elizabeth Fraley (Bockius) BlishFrancis W. BockiusNo Entry
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Margaretta (Bringhurst) Bockius? Bringhurst
? (?) Bringhurst
Elizabeth Morse (Maclay) BlishJohn MaclayNo EntryNo Entry
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Anna (Alexander) Maclay? AlexanderNo Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1889 to 1937
1837-1901:
Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 12
1881-1896:
5th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 7
1889:
Holerith invents the punch card at age 0
1889:
Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 0
1889:
Montana enters the union - 41st at age 0
1889:
South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 0
1889:
North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 0
1889-1892:
Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 0 to age 3
1890:
Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 1
1890:
Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 1
1890:
Battle of Wounded Knee at age 1
1890:
Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 1
1891:
Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 2
1893-1896:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 4 to age 7
1893-1897:
US Financial panic, depression from age 4 to age 8
1893:
New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 4
1893:
Movies at age 4
1893:
Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 4
1894-1895:
Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 5 to age 6
1894:
Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 5
1896:
Utah enters the union - 45th at age 7
1896:
Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 7
1897-1901:
William McKinley president of US from age 8 to age 12
1898:
Spanish American 1-year war at age 9
1899-1902:
Boer war from age 10 to age 13
1899-1923:
6th Cholera pandemic from age 10 to age 34
1900:
Hawaii organized as a territory at age 11
1900:
Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 11
1900:
Boxer rebellion in China at age 11
1901-1908:
Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 12 to age 19
1901-1910:
Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 12 to age 21
1901:
Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 12
1901:
US President William McKinley assassinated at age 12
1901:
Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 12
1901:
Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 12
1901:
Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 12
1901:
First British submarine launched at age 12
1903:
Airplane at age 14
1903:
Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 14
1904:
Radar at age 15
1904-1905:
Russian-Japanese war from age 15 to age 16
1907:
Plastic at age 18
1907:
Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 18
1908:
Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 19
1909:
North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 20
1909:
Union of South Africa formed at age 20
1909-1912:
William Howard Taft president of US from age 20 to age 23
1910:
Halley's Comet at age 21
1910-1936:
Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 21 to age 47
1910:
Japan annexes Korea at age 21
1911:
South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 22
1912:
Alaska organized as a territory at age 23
1912:
Titanic sinks at age 23
1912:
New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 23
1912:
Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 23
1913-1920:
Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 24 to age 31
1914:
The Bra at age 25
1914-1919:
World War I from age 25 to age 30
1915:
Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 26
1916:
Irish Easter Rebellion at age 27
1916:
Sonar at age 27
1917:
US enters WWI at age 28
1917:
Russian revolution at age 28
1918-1920:
Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 29 to age 31
1918-1933:
Prohibition from age 29 to age 44
1919:
Shortwave Radio at age 30
1919:
League of Nations instantiated at age 30
1920:
Women receive right to vote in USA at age 31
1920-1929:
Roaring 20's from age 31 to age 40
1920:
Palestine established at age 31
1921-1924:
Warren G Harding president of US from age 32 to age 35
1922:
Insulin made available to diabetics at age 33
1925-1928:
Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 36 to age 39
1925:
Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 36
1926:
Sound in Movies at age 37
1927:
1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 38
1927:
Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 38
1928:
Video Recordings at age 39
1928:
Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 39
1928:
Television at age 39
1928:
Geiger Counter at age 39
1929-1939:
Great Depression from age 40 until after line end
1929:
Stock Market Crash at age 40
1929-1932:
Herbert Hoover president of US from age 40 to age 43
1930:
Pluto Discovered at age 41
1931-1933:
Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 42 to age 44
1933:
Soviet communist party purge at age 44
1933:
Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 44
1933:
Radio Astronomy at age 44
1933-1945:
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 44 until after line end
1934:
Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 45
1935:
Dustbowl at age 46
1935-1936:
Abyssinian war from age 46 to age 47
1936:
Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 47
1936:
Helicopter at age 47
1936:
Spanish Civil War at age 47
1936-1952:
Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 47 until after line end
1937:
Nylon (by DuPont) at age 48
1937-1945:
Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 48 until after line end

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