Personal Details

Born	January 4th, 1889
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
Mother	[1318sa]	Elizabeth Morse (Maclay) Blish 9

Spouses, Mates & Children none known

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 10	Gen. 9	Gen. 8	Gen. 7	Gen. 6
Herbert Harger Blish	Henry Herbert Blish	Henry Sylvester Blish	Thomas Blish	Colonel Sylvester Blish, (***)
				Rhoda (Cheney) Blish
			Wealthy Ann (Buck) Blish	Halsey Buck
				Sarah (Wood) Buck
		Elizabeth Fraley (Bockius) Blish	Francis W. Bockius	No Entry
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			Margaretta (Bringhurst) Bockius	? Bringhurst
				? (?) Bringhurst
	Elizabeth Morse (Maclay) Blish	John Maclay	No Entry	No Entry
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		Anna (Alexander) Maclay	? Alexander	No Entry
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			? (?) Alexander	No 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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