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888B
Sylvester Waite Blish 8 [m]
8th Generation

Personal Details
Born May 18th, 1874 No Image On File
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 No Image On File
Mother [296_c2sa]Eliza (Waite) Blish 7 No Image On File

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. ? No Image On File
II [888Bc2] Beatrice Blish 9 b. 1905 c. ? No Image On File
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Immediate Family Tree
Gen. 8 Gen. 7 Gen. 6 Gen. 5 Gen. 4
Sylvester Waite BlishJames 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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Eliza (Waite) BlishNo EntryNo EntryNo 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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