Personal Details

Born	January 13th, 1844
Birthplace	Red Kill, New York, USA
Baptized	No Entry
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Occupation(s)	Farmer, carpenter
Died	May 13th, 1939, aged about 95 years
Died at...	Roxbury, New York, USA
Cause of Death	No Entry
Burial Place	Clovesville cemetery, Fleischmans, New York, USA
Disposition	No Entry

Parents

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

Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [296_c2sa] - Eliza (Waite) Blish 7 Married by: No Entry Married at: No Entry Children by this spouse: I [887] Nicholas A. Blish 8 b. November 22nd, 1866 c. February II [888] Calvin F. Blish 8 b. March 12th, 1868 c. June III [888A] John Benjamin Blish 8 b. August 10th, 1870 c. November IV [888B] Sylvester Waite Blish 8 b. May 18th, 1874 c. August V [888C] Milfred James Blish 8 b. July 4th, 1877 c. October VI [888D] Lelletta C. Blish 8 b. March 9th, 1878 c. June VII [888E] Viola Blish 8 b. August 19th, 1880 c. November VIII [888F] Anna Blish 8 b. August 13th, 1883 c. November

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 7	Gen. 6	Gen. 5	Gen. 4	Gen. 3
James 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, 1844 to 1939

1829-1851: 2nd Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 7 1830-1860: Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US from before birth until age 16 1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 57 1841-1844: John Tyler president of US from before birth until age 0 1844: 1st telegraph line message, Washington to New York at age 0 1845-1848: James K Polk president of US from age 1 to age 4 1845: Texas enters the union - 28th at age 1 1845-1849: Irish Potato Famine from age 1 to age 5 1845: Florida enters the union - 27th at age 1 1846-1848: The Mexican-US War from age 2 to age 4 1846: Iowa enters the union - 29th at age 2 1848: Oregon organized as a territory at age 4 1848: Wisconsin enters the union - 30th at age 4 1848: NY allows women to own real estate at age 4 1848-1856: 1st gold rush in California -- Sutters Mill from age 4 to age 12 1849: Fizeau measures speed of light at age 5 1849-1852: Zachary Taylor president of the US from age 5 to age 8 1850: World pop. est. at 1.1 billion at age 6 1850: California enters the union - 31st at age 6 1850: Utah (included Nevada) organized as a territory at age 6 1850: New Mexico organized as a territory at age 6 1850: US pop reaches 23 million at age 6 1851: Gold rush in Australia at age 7 1852-1859: 3rd Cholera pandemic from age 8 to age 15 1853-1856: Franklin Pierce president of US from age 9 to age 12 1853: Washington (included pt. of Idaho) organized as a territory at age 9 1854-1856: Crimean War from age 10 to age 12 1854: Kansas organized as a territory at age 10 1854: Nebraska organized as a territory at age 10 1857-1866: Transatlantic cable laid from age 13 to age 22 1857-1860: James Buchanan president of US from age 13 to age 16 1857: Dred Scott decision: Blacks could not be US citizens at age 13 1858: India bill transfers government of India to England at age 14 1858: Minnesota enters the union - 32nd at age 14 1859: Oregon enters the union - 33rd at age 15 1859: Oil Well at age 15 1859: Darwin pub. Origin Of Species at age 15 1860: South Carolina Secedes from the Union at age 16 1860: Rifled barrel invented at age 16 1861: South Dakota organized as a territory at age 17 1861: Kansas enters the union - 34th at age 17 1861: North Dakota organized as a territory at age 17 1861: Nevada organized as a territory at age 17 1861-1865: Confederate States of America Exist from age 17 to age 21 1861: The Apache Declare War on the US at age 17 1861: Transcontinental Telegraph completed at age 17 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln president of US from age 17 to age 21 1861-1865: Civil War from age 17 to age 21 1861: Colorado organized as a territory at age 17 1861: Gold rush in New Zealand at age 17 1862: US Homestead act at age 18 1863-1879: 4th Cholera pandemic from age 19 to age 35 1863: Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves at age 19 1863: West Virginia enters the union - 35th at age 19 1863: Battle of Gettysburg at age 19 1863: Arizona organized as a territory at age 19 1863: Idaho organized as a territory at age 19 1864: Nevada enters the union - 36th at age 20 1864: Louisiana organized as a territory at age 20 1865: Ku Klux Klan founded at age 21 1865: Lister invents Disinfection at age 21 1865: President Lincoln assassinated at age 21 1866: Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts) at age 22 1866-1868: Andrew Johnson president of US from age 22 to age 24 1867: Diamonds discovered in South Africa at age 23 1867: Dynamite at age 23 1867: Confederation of Canada at age 23 1867: Alaska purchased from Russia at age 23 1867: Nebraska enters the union - 37th at age 23 1868-1878: War between Cuba and Spain from age 24 to age 34 1869: Suez canal opened at age 25 1869: Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold at age 25 1869-1876: Ulysses S Grant president of US from age 25 to age 32 1869: Cutty Sark built at age 25 1869: Trans-continental railroad completed at age 25 1870-1871: Franco-Prussian war from age 26 to age 27 1870: US black men can vote at age 26 1870: 1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) at age 26 1871: Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 27 1873-1878: Depression, banks fail from age 29 to age 34 1873: Color Photographs at age 29 1876: Little Big Horn - Battle at age 32 1876: American Centennial at age 32 1876: Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 32 1876: Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 32 1877-1880: Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 33 to age 36 1877: Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 33 1878: 1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 34 1879: Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 35 1879: Zulu war at age 35 1881-1885: Chester Arthur president of US from age 37 to age 41 1881: James A Garfield president of US at age 37 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from age 37 to age 52 1881: President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 37 1884: Motorcycle at age 40 1884: 1st subway at age 40 1885-1888: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 41 to age 44 1885: Automobile at age 41 1886: Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 42 1887: X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 43 1888: Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 44 1888: 70...77 rpm musical records at age 44 1889: Holerith invents the punch card at age 45 1889-1892: Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 45 to age 48 1889: Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 45 1889: North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 45 1889: South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 45 1889: Montana enters the union - 41st at age 45 1890: Battle of Wounded Knee at age 46 1890: Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 46 1890: Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 46 1890: Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 46 1891: Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 47 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 49 to age 52 1893: New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 49 1893: Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 49 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from age 49 to age 53 1893: Movies at age 49 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 50 to age 51 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 50 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 52 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 52 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 53 to age 57 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 54 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 55 to age 79 1899-1902: Boer war from age 55 to age 58 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 56 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 56 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 56 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 57 to age 64 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 57 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 57 1901: First British submarine launched at age 57 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 57 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 57 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 57 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 57 to age 66 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 59 1903: Airplane at age 59 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 60 to age 61 1904: Radar at age 60 1907: Plastic at age 63 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 63 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 64 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 65 to age 68 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 65 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 65 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 66 to age 92 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 66 1910: Halley's Comet at age 66 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 67 1912: Titanic sinks at age 68 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 68 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 68 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 68 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 69 to age 76 1914-1919: World War I from age 70 to age 75 1914: The Bra at age 70 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 71 1916: Sonar at age 72 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 72 1917: Russian revolution at age 73 1917: US enters WWI at age 73 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 74 to age 89 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 74 to age 76 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 75 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 75 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 76 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 76 to age 85 1920: Palestine established at age 76 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 77 to age 80 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 78 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 81 to age 84 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 81 1926: Sound in Movies at age 82 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 83 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 83 1928: Geiger Counter at age 84 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 84 1928: Video Recordings at age 84 1928: Television at age 84 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 85 to age 95 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 85 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 85 to age 88 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 86 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 87 to age 89 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 89 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 89 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 89 until after line end 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 89 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 90 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 91 to age 92 1935: Dustbowl at age 91 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 92 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 92 until after line end 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 92 1936: Helicopter at age 92 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 93 until after line end 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 93 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 94 1939: Digital Computer at age 95 1939-1945: World War II from age 95 until after line end 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 95

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