Personal Details

Born	May 14th, 1846
Birthplace	Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
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Parents

Father	[713saf]	John Shaffer 6
Mother	[713sam]	Mary (Bright) Shaffer 6

Spouses, Mates & Children

Husband #1 [713] - Roger Dudley Blish 7 Married by: No Entry Married at: Reading, Pennsylvania, USA Children by this spouse: No Records of Children

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Personalized History Timeline, 1846 to 1946

1829-1851: 2nd Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 5 1830-1860: Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US from before birth until age 14 1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 55 1845-1848: James K Polk president of US from before birth until age 2 1845-1849: Irish Potato Famine from before birth until age 3 1846-1848: The Mexican-US War from age 0 to age 2 1846: Iowa enters the union - 29th at age 0 1848: NY allows women to own real estate at age 2 1848-1856: 1st gold rush in California -- Sutters Mill from age 2 to age 10 1848: Oregon organized as a territory at age 2 1848: Wisconsin enters the union - 30th at age 2 1849-1852: Zachary Taylor president of the US from age 3 to age 6 1849: Fizeau measures speed of light at age 3 1850: US pop reaches 23 million at age 4 1850: Utah (included Nevada) organized as a territory at age 4 1850: World pop. est. at 1.1 billion at age 4 1850: California enters the union - 31st at age 4 1850: New Mexico organized as a territory at age 4 1851: Gold rush in Australia at age 5 1852-1859: 3rd Cholera pandemic from age 6 to age 13 1853: Washington (included pt. of Idaho) organized as a territory at age 7 1853-1856: Franklin Pierce president of US from age 7 to age 10 1854: Nebraska organized as a territory at age 8 1854-1856: Crimean War from age 8 to age 10 1854: Kansas organized as a territory at age 8 1857: Dred Scott decision: Blacks could not be US citizens at age 11 1857-1866: Transatlantic cable laid from age 11 to age 20 1857-1860: James Buchanan president of US from age 11 to age 14 1858: Minnesota enters the union - 32nd at age 12 1858: India bill transfers government of India to England at age 12 1859: Oregon enters the union - 33rd at age 13 1859: Darwin pub. Origin Of Species at age 13 1859: Oil Well at age 13 1860: South Carolina Secedes from the Union at age 14 1860: Rifled barrel invented at age 14 1861-1865: Confederate States of America Exist from age 15 to age 19 1861: Gold rush in New Zealand at age 15 1861: Kansas enters the union - 34th at age 15 1861: Colorado organized as a territory at age 15 1861-1865: Civil War from age 15 to age 19 1861: The Apache Declare War on the US at age 15 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln president of US from age 15 to age 19 1861: South Dakota organized as a territory at age 15 1861: North Dakota organized as a territory at age 15 1861: Nevada organized as a territory at age 15 1861: Transcontinental Telegraph completed at age 15 1862: US Homestead act at age 16 1863: Battle of Gettysburg at age 17 1863-1879: 4th Cholera pandemic from age 17 to age 33 1863: West Virginia enters the union - 35th at age 17 1863: Idaho organized as a territory at age 17 1863: Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves at age 17 1863: Arizona organized as a territory at age 17 1864: Louisiana organized as a territory at age 18 1864: Nevada enters the union - 36th at age 18 1865: Ku Klux Klan founded at age 19 1865: President Lincoln assassinated at age 19 1865: Lister invents Disinfection at age 19 1866-1868: Andrew Johnson president of US from age 20 to age 22 1866: Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts) at age 20 1867: Alaska purchased from Russia at age 21 1867: Confederation of Canada at age 21 1867: Nebraska enters the union - 37th at age 21 1867: Dynamite at age 21 1867: Diamonds discovered in South Africa at age 21 1868-1878: War between Cuba and Spain from age 22 to age 32 1869: Suez canal opened at age 23 1869: Trans-continental railroad completed at age 23 1869-1876: Ulysses S Grant president of US from age 23 to age 30 1869: Cutty Sark built at age 23 1869: Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold at age 23 1870: 1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) at age 24 1870: US black men can vote at age 24 1870-1871: Franco-Prussian war from age 24 to age 25 1871: Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 25 1873-1878: Depression, banks fail from age 27 to age 32 1873: Color Photographs at age 27 1876: Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 30 1876: Little Big Horn - Battle at age 30 1876: Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 30 1876: American Centennial at age 30 1877: Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 31 1877-1880: Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 31 to age 34 1878: 1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 32 1879: Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 33 1879: Zulu war at age 33 1881: James A Garfield president of US at age 35 1881: President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 35 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from age 35 to age 50 1881-1885: Chester Arthur president of US from age 35 to age 39 1884: Motorcycle at age 38 1884: 1st subway at age 38 1885: Automobile at age 39 1885-1888: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 39 to age 42 1886: Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 40 1887: X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 41 1888: Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 42 1888: 70...77 rpm musical records at age 42 1889: Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 43 1889-1892: Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 43 to age 46 1889: Holerith invents the punch card at age 43 1889: North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 43 1889: South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 43 1889: Montana enters the union - 41st at age 43 1890: Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 44 1890: Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 44 1890: Battle of Wounded Knee at age 44 1890: Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 44 1891: Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 45 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 47 to age 50 1893: Movies at age 47 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from age 47 to age 51 1893: New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 47 1893: Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 47 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 48 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 48 to age 49 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 50 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 50 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 51 to age 55 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 52 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 53 to age 77 1899-1902: Boer war from age 53 to age 56 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 54 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 54 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 54 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 55 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 55 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 55 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 55 1901: First British submarine launched at age 55 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 55 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 55 to age 64 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 55 to age 62 1903: Airplane at age 57 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 57 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 58 to age 59 1904: Radar at age 58 1907: Plastic at age 61 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 61 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 62 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 63 to age 66 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 63 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 63 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 64 to age 90 1910: Halley's Comet at age 64 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 64 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 65 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 66 1912: Titanic sinks at age 66 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 66 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 66 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 67 to age 74 1914: The Bra at age 68 1914-1919: World War I from age 68 to age 73 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 69 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 70 1916: Sonar at age 70 1917: US enters WWI at age 71 1917: Russian revolution at age 71 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 72 to age 87 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 72 to age 74 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 73 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 73 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 74 to age 83 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 74 1920: Palestine established at age 74 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 75 to age 78 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 76 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 79 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 79 to age 82 1926: Sound in Movies at age 80 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 81 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 81 1928: Video Recordings at age 82 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 82 1928: Television at age 82 1928: Geiger Counter at age 82 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 83 to age 93 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 83 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 83 to age 86 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 84 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 85 to age 87 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 87 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 87 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 87 to age 99 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 87 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 88 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 89 to age 90 1935: Dustbowl at age 89 1936: Helicopter at age 90 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 90 until after line end 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 90 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 90 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 91 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 91 to age 99 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 92 1939: Digital Computer at age 93 1939-1945: World War II from age 93 to age 99 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 93 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 94 1940: Color Television at age 94 1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 95 to age 99 1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 96 1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 96 1945: Hypertext at age 99 1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 99 until after line end 1945: United Nations formed at age 99 1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 99 1946: The Bikini at age 100 1946-1989: The Cold War from age 100 until after line end

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