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886D
Hallie M. (Blish) Townsend 8 [f]
8th Generation

Personal Details
Born January 4th, 1878 No Image On File
Birthplace Fleischman's, New York, USA
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Died April 5th, 1950, aged about 72 years
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Parents
Father [296_c1]Silas Blish 7 No Image On File
Mother [296_c1sb]Mary A. (Boughton) Blish 7 No Image On File

Spouses, Mates & Children
Husband #1
[886Dsa] - Henry A. Townsend 8

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Married at: Fleischmanns, New York, USA

Children by this spouse:
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Immediate Family Tree
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Hallie M. (Blish) TownsendSilas BlishNicholas BlishSilas BlishSylvanus Blish
Esther (Way) Blish
Hannah Eliza (Phelps) BlishNo Entry
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Charlotte "Charity" (Ferguson) BlishNo EntryNo Entry
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Mary A. (Boughton) BlishAvery BoughtonNo EntryNo Entry
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Hannah (Richards) BoughtonNo EntryNo Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1878 to 1950
1837-1901:
Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 23
1863-1879:
4th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 1
1868-1878:
War between Cuba and Spain from before birth until age 0
1873-1878:
Depression, banks fail from before birth until age 0
1877-1880:
Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from before birth until age 2
1878:
1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 0
1879:
Zulu war at age 1
1879:
Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 1
1881:
James A Garfield president of US at age 3
1881:
President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 3
1881-1896:
5th Cholera pandemic from age 3 to age 18
1881-1885:
Chester Arthur president of US from age 3 to age 7
1884:
Motorcycle at age 6
1884:
1st subway at age 6
1885-1888:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 7 to age 10
1885:
Automobile at age 7
1886:
Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 8
1887:
X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 9
1888:
Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 10
1888:
70...77 rpm musical records at age 10
1889-1892:
Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 11 to age 14
1889:
North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 11
1889:
Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 11
1889:
Holerith invents the punch card at age 11
1889:
Montana enters the union - 41st at age 11
1889:
South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 11
1890:
Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 12
1890:
Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 12
1890:
Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 12
1890:
Battle of Wounded Knee at age 12
1891:
Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 13
1893-1897:
US Financial panic, depression from age 15 to age 19
1893:
Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 15
1893:
Movies at age 15
1893-1896:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 15 to age 18
1893:
New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 15
1894-1895:
Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 16 to age 17
1894:
Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 16
1896:
Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 18
1896:
Utah enters the union - 45th at age 18
1897-1901:
William McKinley president of US from age 19 to age 23
1898:
Spanish American 1-year war at age 20
1899-1923:
6th Cholera pandemic from age 21 to age 45
1899-1902:
Boer war from age 21 to age 24
1900:
Boxer rebellion in China at age 22
1900:
Hawaii organized as a territory at age 22
1900:
Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 22
1901-1908:
Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 23 to age 30
1901:
Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 23
1901-1910:
Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 23 to age 32
1901:
First British submarine launched at age 23
1901:
Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 23
1901:
Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 23
1901:
US President William McKinley assassinated at age 23
1901:
Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 23
1903:
Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 25
1903:
Airplane at age 25
1904:
Radar at age 26
1904-1905:
Russian-Japanese war from age 26 to age 27
1907:
Plastic at age 29
1907:
Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 29
1908:
Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 30
1909:
North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 31
1909-1912:
William Howard Taft president of US from age 31 to age 34
1909:
Union of South Africa formed at age 31
1910:
Japan annexes Korea at age 32
1910-1936:
Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 32 to age 58
1910:
Halley's Comet at age 32
1911:
South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 33
1912:
New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 34
1912:
Alaska organized as a territory at age 34
1912:
Titanic sinks at age 34
1912:
Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 34
1913-1920:
Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 35 to age 42
1914:
The Bra at age 36
1914-1919:
World War I from age 36 to age 41
1915:
Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 37
1916:
Irish Easter Rebellion at age 38
1916:
Sonar at age 38
1917:
Russian revolution at age 39
1917:
US enters WWI at age 39
1918-1920:
Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 40 to age 42
1918-1933:
Prohibition from age 40 to age 55
1919:
League of Nations instantiated at age 41
1919:
Shortwave Radio at age 41
1920-1929:
Roaring 20's from age 42 to age 51
1920:
Palestine established at age 42
1920:
Women receive right to vote in USA at age 42
1921-1924:
Warren G Harding president of US from age 43 to age 46
1922:
Insulin made available to diabetics at age 44
1925:
Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 47
1925-1928:
Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 47 to age 50
1926:
Sound in Movies at age 48
1927:
1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 49
1927:
Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 49
1928:
Television at age 50
1928:
Video Recordings at age 50
1928:
Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 50
1928:
Geiger Counter at age 50
1929-1939:
Great Depression from age 51 to age 61
1929-1932:
Herbert Hoover president of US from age 51 to age 54
1929:
Stock Market Crash at age 51
1930:
Pluto Discovered at age 52
1931-1933:
Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 53 to age 55
1933:
Soviet communist party purge at age 55
1933:
Radio Astronomy at age 55
1933:
Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 55
1933-1945:
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 55 to age 67
1934:
Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 56
1935-1936:
Abyssinian war from age 57 to age 58
1935:
Dustbowl at age 57
1936:
Helicopter at age 58
1936:
Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 58
1936-1952:
Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 58 until after line end
1936:
Spanish Civil War at age 58
1937-1945:
Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 59 to age 67
1937:
Nylon (by DuPont) at age 59
1938:
Germany annexes Austria at age 60
1939:
Digital Computer at age 61
1939-1945:
World War II from age 61 to age 67
1939:
Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 61
1940:
Color Television at age 62
1940:
1st black general in US army at age 62
1941-1945:
Manhattan Project from age 63 to age 67
1942:
Nuclear Reactor at age 64
1942:
Magnetic Recording Tape at age 64
1945:
Hypertext at age 67
1945-1952:
Harry S Truman president of US from age 67 until after line end
1945:
US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 67
1945:
United Nations formed at age 67
1946:
The Bikini at age 68
1946-1989:
The Cold War from age 68 until after line end
1947:
India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 69
1947:
UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 69
1947:
Transistor at age 69
1948:
Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 70
1948:
NATO formed at age 70
1948:
33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 70
1948:
Israel inaugurated as state at age 70
1949:
Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 71
1949:
Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 71
1949:
45 rpm musical recordings at age 71
1950-1954:
McCarthyism from age 72 until after line end
1950:
Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 72
1950-1953:
Korean War from age 72 until after line end
1950:
World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 72

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