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William Howland Cook 8 [m]
8th Generation

Personal Details
Born June 23rd, 1849 No Image On File
Birthplace Vineyard Haven, MA, USA
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Parents
Father [489_sa]Captain William Cook, ship master 7 No Image On File
Mother [489]Harriet Ann Hoit (Blish) Cook 7 No Image On File

Spouses, Mates & Children none known

Immediate Family Tree
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William Howland CookCaptain William Cook, ship masterEnoch CookNo EntryNo Entry
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Jane Catharine (Ryan) Cook? RyanNo Entry
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Harriet Ann Hoit (Blish) CookCaptain William BlishStacey "grey eagle" BlishJohn Blish
Mary (Goodspeed) Blish
Mary (Barker or "Baxter"?) Blish? Barker or "Baxter"?
Mary (Stacy) Barker or "Baxter"?
Katherine (Luce) Blish? LuceNo Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1849 to 1949
1829-1851:
2nd Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 2
1830-1860:
Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US from before birth until age 11
1837-1901:
Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 52
1845-1849:
Irish Potato Famine from before birth until age 0
1848-1856:
1st gold rush in California -- Sutters Mill from before birth until age 7
1849-1852:
Zachary Taylor president of the US from age 0 to age 3
1849:
Fizeau measures speed of light at age 0
1850:
California enters the union - 31st at age 1
1850:
Utah (included Nevada) organized as a territory at age 1
1850:
World pop. est. at 1.1 billion at age 1
1850:
US pop reaches 23 million at age 1
1850:
New Mexico organized as a territory at age 1
1851:
Gold rush in Australia at age 2
1852-1859:
3rd Cholera pandemic from age 3 to age 10
1853:
Washington (included pt. of Idaho) organized as a territory at age 4
1853-1856:
Franklin Pierce president of US from age 4 to age 7
1854:
Nebraska organized as a territory at age 5
1854:
Kansas organized as a territory at age 5
1854-1856:
Crimean War from age 5 to age 7
1857:
Dred Scott decision: Blacks could not be US citizens at age 8
1857-1866:
Transatlantic cable laid from age 8 to age 17
1857-1860:
James Buchanan president of US from age 8 to age 11
1858:
India bill transfers government of India to England at age 9
1858:
Minnesota enters the union - 32nd at age 9
1859:
Oregon enters the union - 33rd at age 10
1859:
Oil Well at age 10
1859:
Darwin pub. Origin Of Species at age 10
1860:
South Carolina Secedes from the Union at age 11
1860:
Rifled barrel invented at age 11
1861:
Kansas enters the union - 34th at age 12
1861-1865:
Civil War from age 12 to age 16
1861-1865:
Confederate States of America Exist from age 12 to age 16
1861:
Transcontinental Telegraph completed at age 12
1861:
North Dakota organized as a territory at age 12
1861:
Gold rush in New Zealand at age 12
1861:
Nevada organized as a territory at age 12
1861-1865:
Abraham Lincoln president of US from age 12 to age 16
1861:
Colorado organized as a territory at age 12
1861:
The Apache Declare War on the US at age 12
1861:
South Dakota organized as a territory at age 12
1862:
US Homestead act at age 13
1863:
Battle of Gettysburg at age 14
1863:
Idaho organized as a territory at age 14
1863:
West Virginia enters the union - 35th at age 14
1863:
Arizona organized as a territory at age 14
1863:
Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves at age 14
1863-1879:
4th Cholera pandemic from age 14 to age 30
1864:
Nevada enters the union - 36th at age 15
1864:
Louisiana organized as a territory at age 15
1865:
Ku Klux Klan founded at age 16
1865:
President Lincoln assassinated at age 16
1865:
Lister invents Disinfection at age 16
1866:
Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts) at age 17
1866-1868:
Andrew Johnson president of US from age 17 to age 19
1867:
Dynamite at age 18
1867:
Confederation of Canada at age 18
1867:
Alaska purchased from Russia at age 18
1867:
Diamonds discovered in South Africa at age 18
1867:
Nebraska enters the union - 37th at age 18
1868-1878:
War between Cuba and Spain from age 19 to age 29
1869-1876:
Ulysses S Grant president of US from age 20 to age 27
1869:
Cutty Sark built at age 20
1869:
Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold at age 20
1869:
Trans-continental railroad completed at age 20
1869:
Suez canal opened at age 20
1870:
1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) at age 21
1870:
US black men can vote at age 21
1870-1871:
Franco-Prussian war from age 21 to age 22
1871:
Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 22
1873-1878:
Depression, banks fail from age 24 to age 29
1873:
Color Photographs at age 24
1876:
Little Big Horn - Battle at age 27
1876:
Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 27
1876:
Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 27
1876:
American Centennial at age 27
1877-1880:
Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 28 to age 31
1877:
Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 28
1878:
1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 29
1879:
Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 30
1879:
Zulu war at age 30
1881-1885:
Chester Arthur president of US from age 32 to age 36
1881-1896:
5th Cholera pandemic from age 32 to age 47
1881:
President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 32
1881:
James A Garfield president of US at age 32
1884:
1st subway at age 35
1884:
Motorcycle at age 35
1885-1888:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 36 to age 39
1885:
Automobile at age 36
1886:
Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 37
1887:
X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 38
1888:
70...77 rpm musical records at age 39
1888:
Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 39
1889:
North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 40
1889:
South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 40
1889:
Montana enters the union - 41st at age 40
1889:
Holerith invents the punch card at age 40
1889:
Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 40
1889-1892:
Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 40 to age 43
1890:
Battle of Wounded Knee at age 41
1890:
Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 41
1890:
Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 41
1890:
Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 41
1891:
Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 42
1893:
Movies at age 44
1893-1896:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 44 to age 47
1893:
New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 44
1893-1897:
US Financial panic, depression from age 44 to age 48
1893:
Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 44
1894:
Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 45
1894-1895:
Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 45 to age 46
1896:
Utah enters the union - 45th at age 47
1896:
Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 47
1897-1901:
William McKinley president of US from age 48 to age 52
1898:
Spanish American 1-year war at age 49
1899-1923:
6th Cholera pandemic from age 50 to age 74
1899-1902:
Boer war from age 50 to age 53
1900:
Boxer rebellion in China at age 51
1900:
Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 51
1900:
Hawaii organized as a territory at age 51
1901:
Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 52
1901-1908:
Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 52 to age 59
1901-1910:
Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 52 to age 61
1901:
US President William McKinley assassinated at age 52
1901:
First British submarine launched at age 52
1901:
Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 52
1901:
Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 52
1901:
Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 52
1903:
Airplane at age 54
1903:
Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 54
1904-1905:
Russian-Japanese war from age 55 to age 56
1904:
Radar at age 55
1907:
Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 58
1907:
Plastic at age 58
1908:
Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 59
1909:
North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 60
1909-1912:
William Howard Taft president of US from age 60 to age 63
1909:
Union of South Africa formed at age 60
1910:
Japan annexes Korea at age 61
1910:
Halley's Comet at age 61
1910-1936:
Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 61 to age 87
1911:
South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 62
1912:
Titanic sinks at age 63
1912:
New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 63
1912:
Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 63
1912:
Alaska organized as a territory at age 63
1913-1920:
Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 64 to age 71
1914-1919:
World War I from age 65 to age 70
1914:
The Bra at age 65
1915:
Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 66
1916:
Irish Easter Rebellion at age 67
1916:
Sonar at age 67
1917:
Russian revolution at age 68
1917:
US enters WWI at age 68
1918-1933:
Prohibition from age 69 to age 84
1918-1920:
Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 69 to age 71
1919:
Shortwave Radio at age 70
1919:
League of Nations instantiated at age 70
1920-1929:
Roaring 20's from age 71 to age 80
1920:
Palestine established at age 71
1920:
Women receive right to vote in USA at age 71
1921-1924:
Warren G Harding president of US from age 72 to age 75
1922:
Insulin made available to diabetics at age 73
1925-1928:
Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 76 to age 79
1925:
Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 76
1926:
Sound in Movies at age 77
1927:
1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 78
1927:
Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 78
1928:
Geiger Counter at age 79
1928:
Video Recordings at age 79
1928:
Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 79
1928:
Television at age 79
1929-1932:
Herbert Hoover president of US from age 80 to age 83
1929-1939:
Great Depression from age 80 to age 90
1929:
Stock Market Crash at age 80
1930:
Pluto Discovered at age 81
1931-1933:
Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 82 to age 84
1933:
Radio Astronomy at age 84
1933:
Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 84
1933:
Soviet communist party purge at age 84
1933-1945:
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 84 to age 96
1934:
Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 85
1935-1936:
Abyssinian war from age 86 to age 87
1935:
Dustbowl at age 86
1936-1952:
Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 87 until after line end
1936:
Helicopter at age 87
1936:
Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 87
1936:
Spanish Civil War at age 87
1937-1945:
Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 88 to age 96
1937:
Nylon (by DuPont) at age 88
1938:
Germany annexes Austria at age 89
1939:
Digital Computer at age 90
1939-1945:
World War II from age 90 to age 96
1939:
Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 90
1940:
1st black general in US army at age 91
1940:
Color Television at age 91
1941-1945:
Manhattan Project from age 92 to age 96
1942:
Magnetic Recording Tape at age 93
1942:
Nuclear Reactor at age 93
1945-1952:
Harry S Truman president of US from age 96 until after line end
1945:
US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 96
1945:
United Nations formed at age 96
1945:
Hypertext at age 96
1946-1989:
The Cold War from age 97 until after line end
1946:
The Bikini at age 97
1947:
India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 98
1947:
Transistor at age 98
1947:
UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 98
1948:
33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 99
1948:
NATO formed at age 99
1948:
Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 99
1948:
Israel inaugurated as state at age 99
1949:
Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 100
1949:
Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 100
1949:
45 rpm musical recordings at age 100

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