Personal Details

Born	1862
Birthplace	Algoma, Wisconsin, USA
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Died	1940, aged about 78 years
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Parents

Father	[579q]	Alfred Day Blish 7
Mother	[579q_sa]	Amanda (Van Doozer) Blish 7

Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [919bsa] - ? (?) Blish 8 Married by: No Entry Married at: No Entry Children by this spouse: I [919bc1] Marcella Blish 9 b. No Entry c. ? II [919bc2] George Blish 9 b. No Entry c. ? III [919bc3] Lewis Blish 9 b. No Entry c. ? IV [919bc4] Blish 9 b. No Entry c. ? V [919bc5] Blish 9 b. No Entry c. ? VI [919bc6] Blish 9 b. No Entry c. ? VII [919bc7] Blish 9 b. No Entry c. ?

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 8	Gen. 7	Gen. 6	Gen. 5	Gen. 4
George Blish	Alfred Day Blish	Harvey Blish	Joseph Blush, Jr.	Joseph Blish
				Elizabeth (Skinner) Blish
			Sylvia (Taylor) Blish	No Entry
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		Phoebe (Worden) Blish	Nathaniel Worden	No Entry
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			Cyrena (Hurlbert) Worden	? Hurlbert
				? (?) Hurlbert
	Amanda (Van Doozer) Blish	Horace, Van Doozer	No Entry	No Entry
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		? (?), Van Doozer	No Entry	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1862 to 1940

1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 39 1857-1866: Transatlantic cable laid from before birth until age 4 1861-1865: Confederate States of America Exist from before birth until age 3 1861-1865: Civil War from before birth until age 3 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln president of US from before birth until age 3 1862: US Homestead act at age 0 1863: Battle of Gettysburg at age 1 1863: Idaho organized as a territory at age 1 1863: Arizona organized as a territory at age 1 1863: West Virginia enters the union - 35th at age 1 1863: Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves at age 1 1863-1879: 4th Cholera pandemic from age 1 to age 17 1864: Nevada enters the union - 36th at age 2 1864: Louisiana organized as a territory at age 2 1865: Lister invents Disinfection at age 3 1865: Ku Klux Klan founded at age 3 1865: President Lincoln assassinated at age 3 1866-1868: Andrew Johnson president of US from age 4 to age 6 1866: Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts) at age 4 1867: Dynamite at age 5 1867: Diamonds discovered in South Africa at age 5 1867: Confederation of Canada at age 5 1867: Alaska purchased from Russia at age 5 1867: Nebraska enters the union - 37th at age 5 1868-1878: War between Cuba and Spain from age 6 to age 16 1869-1876: Ulysses S Grant president of US from age 7 to age 14 1869: Cutty Sark built at age 7 1869: Suez canal opened at age 7 1869: Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold at age 7 1869: Trans-continental railroad completed at age 7 1870-1871: Franco-Prussian war from age 8 to age 9 1870: US black men can vote at age 8 1870: 1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) at age 8 1871: Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 9 1873-1878: Depression, banks fail from age 11 to age 16 1873: Color Photographs at age 11 1876: Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 14 1876: Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 14 1876: American Centennial at age 14 1876: Little Big Horn - Battle at age 14 1877: Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 15 1877-1880: Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 15 to age 18 1878: 1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 16 1879: Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 17 1879: Zulu war at age 17 1881: James A Garfield president of US at age 19 1881-1885: Chester Arthur president of US from age 19 to age 23 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from age 19 to age 34 1881: President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 19 1884: Motorcycle at age 22 1884: 1st subway at age 22 1885: Automobile at age 23 1885-1888: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 23 to age 26 1886: Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 24 1887: X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 25 1888: Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 26 1888: 70...77 rpm musical records at age 26 1889-1892: Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 27 to age 30 1889: Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 27 1889: Montana enters the union - 41st at age 27 1889: South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 27 1889: North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 27 1889: Holerith invents the punch card at age 27 1890: Battle of Wounded Knee at age 28 1890: Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 28 1890: Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 28 1890: Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 28 1891: Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 29 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 31 to age 34 1893: Movies at age 31 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from age 31 to age 35 1893: Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 31 1893: New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 31 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 32 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 32 to age 33 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 34 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 34 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 35 to age 39 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 36 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 37 to age 61 1899-1902: Boer war from age 37 to age 40 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 38 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 38 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 38 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 39 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 39 to age 46 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 39 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 39 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 39 to age 48 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 39 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 39 1901: First British submarine launched at age 39 1903: Airplane at age 41 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 41 1904: Radar at age 42 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 42 to age 43 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 45 1907: Plastic at age 45 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 46 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 47 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 47 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 47 to age 50 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 48 1910: Halley's Comet at age 48 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 48 to age 74 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 49 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 50 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 50 1912: Titanic sinks at age 50 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 50 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 51 to age 58 1914-1919: World War I from age 52 to age 57 1914: The Bra at age 52 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 53 1916: Sonar at age 54 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 54 1917: Russian revolution at age 55 1917: US enters WWI at age 55 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 56 to age 58 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 56 to age 71 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 57 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 57 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 58 to age 67 1920: Palestine established at age 58 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 58 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 59 to age 62 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 60 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 63 to age 66 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 63 1926: Sound in Movies at age 64 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 65 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 65 1928: Video Recordings at age 66 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 66 1928: Television at age 66 1928: Geiger Counter at age 66 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 67 to age 70 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 67 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 67 to age 77 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 68 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 69 to age 71 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 71 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 71 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 71 until after line end 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 71 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 72 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 73 to age 74 1935: Dustbowl at age 73 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 74 1936: Helicopter at age 74 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 74 until after line end 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 74 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 75 until after line end 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 75 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 76 1939-1945: World War II from age 77 until after line end 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 77 1939: Digital Computer at age 77 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 78 1940: Color Television at age 78

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