Personal Details

Born	May 18th, 1874
Birthplace	Fleishmanns, county of Delaware, New York, USA
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Occupation(s)	Carpenter
Died	April 5th, 1950, aged about 76 years
Died at...	Miami, county of Dade, Florida, USA
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Parents

Father	[296_c2]	James Blish 7
Mother	[296_c2sa]	Eliza (Waite) Blish 7

Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [888Bsa] - Margaret (McGovern) Blish 8 Married by: No Entry Married at: New York, New York, USA Children by this spouse: I [888Bc1] Gladys Elizabeth Blish 9 b. 1903 c. ? II [888Bc2] Beatrice Blish 9 b. 1905 c. ?

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 8	Gen. 7	Gen. 6	Gen. 5	Gen. 4
Sylvester Waite Blish	James Blish	Nicholas Blish	Silas Blish	Sylvanus Blish
				Esther (Way) Blish
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		Charlotte "Charity" (Ferguson) Blish	No Entry	No Entry
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	Eliza (Waite) Blish	No Entry	No Entry	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1874 to 1950

1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 27 1863-1879: 4th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 5 1868-1878: War between Cuba and Spain from before birth until age 4 1869-1876: Ulysses S Grant president of US from before birth until age 2 1873-1878: Depression, banks fail from before birth until age 4 1876: Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 2 1876: Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 2 1876: American Centennial at age 2 1876: Little Big Horn - Battle at age 2 1877: Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 3 1877-1880: Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 3 to age 6 1878: 1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 4 1879: Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 5 1879: Zulu war at age 5 1881: President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 7 1881-1885: Chester Arthur president of US from age 7 to age 11 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from age 7 to age 22 1881: James A Garfield president of US at age 7 1884: Motorcycle at age 10 1884: 1st subway at age 10 1885: Automobile at age 11 1885-1888: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 11 to age 14 1886: Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 12 1887: X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 13 1888: 70...77 rpm musical records at age 14 1888: Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 14 1889: Holerith invents the punch card at age 15 1889: Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 15 1889: Montana enters the union - 41st at age 15 1889-1892: Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 15 to age 18 1889: South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 15 1889: North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 15 1890: Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 16 1890: Battle of Wounded Knee at age 16 1890: Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 16 1890: Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 16 1891: Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 17 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from age 19 to age 23 1893: New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 19 1893: Movies at age 19 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 19 to age 22 1893: Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 19 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 20 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 20 to age 21 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 22 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 22 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 23 to age 27 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 24 1899-1902: Boer war from age 25 to age 28 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 25 to age 49 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 26 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 26 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 26 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 27 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 27 to age 34 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 27 to age 36 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 27 1901: First British submarine launched at age 27 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 27 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 27 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 27 1903: Airplane at age 29 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 29 1904: Radar at age 30 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 30 to age 31 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 33 1907: Plastic at age 33 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 34 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 35 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 35 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 35 to age 38 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 36 1910: Halley's Comet at age 36 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 36 to age 62 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 37 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 38 1912: Titanic sinks at age 38 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 38 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 38 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 39 to age 46 1914: The Bra at age 40 1914-1919: World War I from age 40 to age 45 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 41 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 42 1916: Sonar at age 42 1917: US enters WWI at age 43 1917: Russian revolution at age 43 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 44 to age 59 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 44 to age 46 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 45 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 45 1920: Palestine established at age 46 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 46 to age 55 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 46 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 47 to age 50 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 48 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 51 to age 54 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 51 1926: Sound in Movies at age 52 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 53 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 53 1928: Television at age 54 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 54 1928: Video Recordings at age 54 1928: Geiger Counter at age 54 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 55 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 55 to age 58 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 55 to age 65 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 56 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 57 to age 59 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 59 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 59 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 59 to age 71 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 59 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 60 1935: Dustbowl at age 61 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 61 to age 62 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 62 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 62 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 62 until after line end 1936: Helicopter at age 62 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 63 to age 71 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 63 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 64 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 65 1939-1945: World War II from age 65 to age 71 1939: Digital Computer at age 65 1940: Color Television at age 66 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 66 1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 67 to age 71 1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 68 1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 68 1945: Hypertext at age 71 1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 71 1945: United Nations formed at age 71 1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 71 until after line end 1946: The Bikini at age 72 1946-1989: The Cold War from age 72 until after line end 1947: India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 73 1947: UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 73 1947: Transistor at age 73 1948: Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 74 1948: NATO formed at age 74 1948: 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 74 1948: Israel inaugurated as state at age 74 1949: Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 75 1949: 45 rpm musical recordings at age 75 1949: Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 75 1950-1954: McCarthyism from age 76 until after line end 1950: Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 76 1950-1953: Korean War from age 76 until after line end 1950: World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 76

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