Personal Details

Born	August 13th, 1839
Birthplace	Fleischmanns, New York, USA
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Occupation(s)	Farmer
Died	November 12th, 1933, aged about 94 years
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Parents

Father	[296]	Nicholas Blish 6
Mother	[296_sa]	Charlotte "Charity" (Ferguson) Blish 6

Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [296_c1sa] - Hannah (Avery) Blish 7 Married by: No Entry Married at: No Entry Children by this spouse: I [886A] Henry Blish 8 b. No Entry c. ? II [886B] Lottie A. (Blish) Fuller 8 b. August 10th, 1868 c. November
Wife #2 [296_c1sb] - Mary A. (Boughton) Blish 7 Married by: No Entry Married at: Fleischman's, New York, USA Children by this spouse: I [886C]+ Katie R. (Blish) Todd 8 b. January 14th, 1876 c. April II [886D] Hallie M. (Blish) Townsend 8 b. January 4th, 1878 c. April III [886E] Warner R. Blish 8 b. January 28th, 1880 c. April
Wife #3 [296_c1sc] - Eunice (Graham) Blish 7 Married by: No Entry Married at: No Entry Children by this spouse: No Records of Children

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 7	Gen. 6	Gen. 5	Gen. 4	Gen. 3
Silas Blish	Nicholas Blish	Silas Blish	Sylvanus Blish	Tristham Blish, (***)
				Anne (Fuller) Blish
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		Hannah Eliza (Phelps) Blish	No Entry	No Entry
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	Charlotte "Charity" (Ferguson) Blish	No Entry	No Entry	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1839 to 1933

1829-1851: 2nd Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 12 1830-1860: Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US from before birth until age 21 1835-1842: 2nd Seminole War from before birth until age 3 1837-1840: Martin Van Buren president of US from before birth until age 1 1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 62 1838-1839: Forced relocation of Cherokee from before birth until age 0 1839-1842: Opium war between China and the English from age 0 to age 3 1841-1844: John Tyler president of US from age 2 to age 5 1842: Chinese cede Hong Kong to the English at age 3 1844: 1st telegraph line message, Washington to New York at age 5 1845-1849: Irish Potato Famine from age 6 to age 10 1845: Florida enters the union - 27th at age 6 1845: Texas enters the union - 28th at age 6 1845-1848: James K Polk president of US from age 6 to age 9 1846-1848: The Mexican-US War from age 7 to age 9 1846: Iowa enters the union - 29th at age 7 1848: Wisconsin enters the union - 30th at age 9 1848: Oregon organized as a territory at age 9 1848-1856: 1st gold rush in California -- Sutters Mill from age 9 to age 17 1848: NY allows women to own real estate at age 9 1849-1852: Zachary Taylor president of the US from age 10 to age 13 1849: Fizeau measures speed of light at age 10 1850: Utah (included Nevada) organized as a territory at age 11 1850: New Mexico organized as a territory at age 11 1850: World pop. est. at 1.1 billion at age 11 1850: California enters the union - 31st at age 11 1850: US pop reaches 23 million at age 11 1851: Gold rush in Australia at age 12 1852-1859: 3rd Cholera pandemic from age 13 to age 20 1853: Washington (included pt. of Idaho) organized as a territory at age 14 1853-1856: Franklin Pierce president of US from age 14 to age 17 1854-1856: Crimean War from age 15 to age 17 1854: Kansas organized as a territory at age 15 1854: Nebraska organized as a territory at age 15 1857-1860: James Buchanan president of US from age 18 to age 21 1857: Dred Scott decision: Blacks could not be US citizens at age 18 1857-1866: Transatlantic cable laid from age 18 to age 27 1858: India bill transfers government of India to England at age 19 1858: Minnesota enters the union - 32nd at age 19 1859: Oil Well at age 20 1859: Oregon enters the union - 33rd at age 20 1859: Darwin pub. Origin Of Species at age 20 1860: Rifled barrel invented at age 21 1860: South Carolina Secedes from the Union at age 21 1861: South Dakota organized as a territory at age 22 1861: North Dakota organized as a territory at age 22 1861: Kansas enters the union - 34th at age 22 1861: Nevada organized as a territory at age 22 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln president of US from age 22 to age 26 1861: Colorado organized as a territory at age 22 1861: Transcontinental Telegraph completed at age 22 1861: Gold rush in New Zealand at age 22 1861-1865: Confederate States of America Exist from age 22 to age 26 1861-1865: Civil War from age 22 to age 26 1861: The Apache Declare War on the US at age 22 1862: US Homestead act at age 23 1863: West Virginia enters the union - 35th at age 24 1863: Idaho organized as a territory at age 24 1863-1879: 4th Cholera pandemic from age 24 to age 40 1863: Arizona organized as a territory at age 24 1863: Battle of Gettysburg at age 24 1863: Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves at age 24 1864: Nevada enters the union - 36th at age 25 1864: Louisiana organized as a territory at age 25 1865: Lister invents Disinfection at age 26 1865: Ku Klux Klan founded at age 26 1865: President Lincoln assassinated at age 26 1866: Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts) at age 27 1866-1868: Andrew Johnson president of US from age 27 to age 29 1867: Diamonds discovered in South Africa at age 28 1867: Dynamite at age 28 1867: Alaska purchased from Russia at age 28 1867: Confederation of Canada at age 28 1867: Nebraska enters the union - 37th at age 28 1868-1878: War between Cuba and Spain from age 29 to age 39 1869: Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold at age 30 1869-1876: Ulysses S Grant president of US from age 30 to age 37 1869: Cutty Sark built at age 30 1869: Suez canal opened at age 30 1869: Trans-continental railroad completed at age 30 1870: US black men can vote at age 31 1870: 1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) at age 31 1870-1871: Franco-Prussian war from age 31 to age 32 1871: Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 32 1873: Color Photographs at age 34 1873-1878: Depression, banks fail from age 34 to age 39 1876: Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 37 1876: Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 37 1876: American Centennial at age 37 1876: Little Big Horn - Battle at age 37 1877: Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 38 1877-1880: Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 38 to age 41 1878: 1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 39 1879: Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 40 1879: Zulu war at age 40 1881: President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 42 1881: James A Garfield president of US at age 42 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from age 42 to age 57 1881-1885: Chester Arthur president of US from age 42 to age 46 1884: Motorcycle at age 45 1884: 1st subway at age 45 1885: Automobile at age 46 1885-1888: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 46 to age 49 1886: Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 47 1887: X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 48 1888: 70...77 rpm musical records at age 49 1888: Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 49 1889: Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 50 1889-1892: Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 50 to age 53 1889: North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 50 1889: South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 50 1889: Montana enters the union - 41st at age 50 1889: Holerith invents the punch card at age 50 1890: Battle of Wounded Knee at age 51 1890: Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 51 1890: Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 51 1890: Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 51 1891: Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 52 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from age 54 to age 58 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 54 to age 57 1893: New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 54 1893: Movies at age 54 1893: Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 54 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 55 to age 56 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 55 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 57 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 57 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 58 to age 62 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 59 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 60 to age 84 1899-1902: Boer war from age 60 to age 63 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 61 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 61 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 61 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 62 to age 69 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 62 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 62 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 62 1901: First British submarine launched at age 62 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 62 to age 71 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 62 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 62 1903: Airplane at age 64 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 64 1904: Radar at age 65 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 65 to age 66 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 68 1907: Plastic at age 68 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 69 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 70 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 70 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 70 to age 73 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 71 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 71 until after line end 1910: Halley's Comet at age 71 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 72 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 73 1912: Titanic sinks at age 73 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 73 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 73 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 74 to age 81 1914-1919: World War I from age 75 to age 80 1914: The Bra at age 75 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 76 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 77 1916: Sonar at age 77 1917: US enters WWI at age 78 1917: Russian revolution at age 78 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 79 to age 81 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 79 to age 94 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 80 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 80 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 81 to age 90 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 81 1920: Palestine established at age 81 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 82 to age 85 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 83 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 86 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 86 to age 89 1926: Sound in Movies at age 87 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 88 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 88 1928: Television at age 89 1928: Geiger Counter at age 89 1928: Video Recordings at age 89 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 89 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 90 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 90 until after line end 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 90 to age 93 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 91 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 92 to age 94 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 94 until after line end 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 94 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 94 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 94

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