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972
Tipton Shields Blish 8 [m]
8th Generation

Personal Details
Born January 13th, 1865 No Image On File
Birthplace Seymour, Indiana, USA
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Occupation(s) Connected with the Blish Milling Company
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Parents
Father [641]John Hedding Blish 7
Mother [641_sa]Sarah (Shields) Blish 7 No Image On File

Spouses, Mates & Children none known

Immediate Family Tree
Gen. 8 Gen. 7 Gen. 6 Gen. 5 Gen. 4
Tipton Shields BlishJohn Hedding BlishJohn BlishDeacon David BlishDavid Blish, (***)
Zeruiah (Skinner) Blish
Lucy (Wilcox) BlishObadiah Wilcox
Sarah (Talcott) Wilcox
Merab Ann (Wales) BlishStephen WalesNo Entry
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Mary (?) WalesNo Entry
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Sarah (Shields) BlishMeedy White ShieldsNo EntryNo Entry
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Eliza P. (Ewing) Shields? EwingNo Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1865 to 1965
1837-1901:
Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 36
1857-1866:
Transatlantic cable laid from before birth until age 1
1861-1865:
Civil War from before birth until age 0
1861-1865:
Confederate States of America Exist from before birth until age 0
1861-1865:
Abraham Lincoln president of US from before birth until age 0
1863-1879:
4th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 14
1865:
President Lincoln assassinated at age 0
1865:
Lister invents Disinfection at age 0
1865:
Ku Klux Klan founded at age 0
1866:
Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts) at age 1
1866-1868:
Andrew Johnson president of US from age 1 to age 3
1867:
Nebraska enters the union - 37th at age 2
1867:
Alaska purchased from Russia at age 2
1867:
Diamonds discovered in South Africa at age 2
1867:
Confederation of Canada at age 2
1867:
Dynamite at age 2
1868-1878:
War between Cuba and Spain from age 3 to age 13
1869:
Suez canal opened at age 4
1869:
Trans-continental railroad completed at age 4
1869-1876:
Ulysses S Grant president of US from age 4 to age 11
1869:
Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold at age 4
1869:
Cutty Sark built at age 4
1870:
1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) at age 5
1870-1871:
Franco-Prussian war from age 5 to age 6
1870:
US black men can vote at age 5
1871:
Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 6
1873:
Color Photographs at age 8
1873-1878:
Depression, banks fail from age 8 to age 13
1876:
Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 11
1876:
Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 11
1876:
American Centennial at age 11
1876:
Little Big Horn - Battle at age 11
1877:
Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 12
1877-1880:
Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 12 to age 15
1878:
1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 13
1879:
Zulu war at age 14
1879:
Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 14
1881-1896:
5th Cholera pandemic from age 16 to age 31
1881-1885:
Chester Arthur president of US from age 16 to age 20
1881:
James A Garfield president of US at age 16
1881:
President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 16
1884:
Motorcycle at age 19
1884:
1st subway at age 19
1885:
Automobile at age 20
1885-1888:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 20 to age 23
1886:
Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 21
1887:
X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 22
1888:
Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 23
1888:
70...77 rpm musical records at age 23
1889:
Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 24
1889:
Holerith invents the punch card at age 24
1889-1892:
Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 24 to age 27
1889:
South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 24
1889:
Montana enters the union - 41st at age 24
1889:
North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 24
1890:
Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 25
1890:
Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 25
1890:
Battle of Wounded Knee at age 25
1890:
Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 25
1891:
Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 26
1893-1897:
US Financial panic, depression from age 28 to age 32
1893:
Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 28
1893-1896:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 28 to age 31
1893:
Movies at age 28
1893:
New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 28
1894-1895:
Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 29 to age 30
1894:
Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 29
1896:
Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 31
1896:
Utah enters the union - 45th at age 31
1897-1901:
William McKinley president of US from age 32 to age 36
1898:
Spanish American 1-year war at age 33
1899-1923:
6th Cholera pandemic from age 34 to age 58
1899-1902:
Boer war from age 34 to age 37
1900:
Hawaii organized as a territory at age 35
1900:
Boxer rebellion in China at age 35
1900:
Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 35
1901-1910:
Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 36 to age 45
1901-1908:
Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 36 to age 43
1901:
Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 36
1901:
First British submarine launched at age 36
1901:
Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 36
1901:
Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 36
1901:
Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 36
1901:
US President William McKinley assassinated at age 36
1903:
Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 38
1903:
Airplane at age 38
1904-1905:
Russian-Japanese war from age 39 to age 40
1904:
Radar at age 39
1907:
Plastic at age 42
1907:
Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 42
1908:
Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 43
1909-1912:
William Howard Taft president of US from age 44 to age 47
1909:
Union of South Africa formed at age 44
1909:
North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 44
1910-1936:
Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 45 to age 71
1910:
Halley's Comet at age 45
1910:
Japan annexes Korea at age 45
1911:
South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 46
1912:
Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 47
1912:
Alaska organized as a territory at age 47
1912:
Titanic sinks at age 47
1912:
New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 47
1913-1920:
Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 48 to age 55
1914-1919:
World War I from age 49 to age 54
1914:
The Bra at age 49
1915:
Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 50
1916:
Sonar at age 51
1916:
Irish Easter Rebellion at age 51
1917:
Russian revolution at age 52
1917:
US enters WWI at age 52
1918-1920:
Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 53 to age 55
1918-1933:
Prohibition from age 53 to age 68
1919:
Shortwave Radio at age 54
1919:
League of Nations instantiated at age 54
1920:
Women receive right to vote in USA at age 55
1920:
Palestine established at age 55
1920-1929:
Roaring 20's from age 55 to age 64
1921-1924:
Warren G Harding president of US from age 56 to age 59
1922:
Insulin made available to diabetics at age 57
1925:
Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 60
1925-1928:
Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 60 to age 63
1926:
Sound in Movies at age 61
1927:
Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 62
1927:
1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 62
1928:
Video Recordings at age 63
1928:
Geiger Counter at age 63
1928:
Television at age 63
1928:
Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 63
1929-1932:
Herbert Hoover president of US from age 64 to age 67
1929-1939:
Great Depression from age 64 to age 74
1929:
Stock Market Crash at age 64
1930:
Pluto Discovered at age 65
1931-1933:
Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 66 to age 68
1933:
Soviet communist party purge at age 68
1933:
Radio Astronomy at age 68
1933-1945:
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 68 to age 80
1933:
Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 68
1934:
Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 69
1935:
Dustbowl at age 70
1935-1936:
Abyssinian war from age 70 to age 71
1936:
Spanish Civil War at age 71
1936:
Helicopter at age 71
1936:
Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 71
1936-1952:
Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 71 to age 87
1937-1945:
Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 72 to age 80
1937:
Nylon (by DuPont) at age 72
1938:
Germany annexes Austria at age 73
1939:
Digital Computer at age 74
1939-1945:
World War II from age 74 to age 80
1939:
Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 74
1940:
Color Television at age 75
1940:
1st black general in US army at age 75
1941-1945:
Manhattan Project from age 76 to age 80
1942:
Magnetic Recording Tape at age 77
1942:
Nuclear Reactor at age 77
1945-1952:
Harry S Truman president of US from age 80 to age 87
1945:
Hypertext at age 80
1945:
United Nations formed at age 80
1945:
US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 80
1946:
The Bikini at age 81
1946-1989:
The Cold War from age 81 until after line end
1947:
Transistor at age 82
1947:
India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 82
1947:
UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 82
1948:
Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 83
1948:
Israel inaugurated as state at age 83
1948:
NATO formed at age 83
1948:
33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 83
1949:
Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 84
1949:
45 rpm musical recordings at age 84
1949:
Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 84
1950-1953:
Korean War from age 85 to age 88
1950-1954:
McCarthyism from age 85 to age 89
1950:
World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 85
1950:
Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 85
1951:
Electricity from Atomic Power at age 86
1952-2050:
Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 87 until after line end
1952:
1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 87
1953-1960:
Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 88 to age 95
1954:
Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 89
1955:
Invention of Velcro at age 90
1955:
Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 90
1955:
Warsaw pact formed at age 90
1955:
Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 90
1956:
Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 91
1957:
Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 92
1958:
Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 93
1958:
Integrated Circuit at age 93
1958:
FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 93
1958:
US space agency (NASA) established at age 93
1959:
1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 94
1959:
Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 94
1959:
Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 94
1960:
World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 95
1960:
Laser at age 95
1960:
Pantyhose at age 95
1960:
1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 95
1961-1970:
7th Cholera pandemic from age 96 until after line end
1961:
1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 96
1961:
First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 96
1961-1963:
John F Kennedy president of US from age 96 to age 98
1962:
Cuban missile crisis at age 97
1962-1965:
Vatican II from age 97 to age 100
1963:
Compact Cassette Recordings at age 98
1963:
1st artificial heart at age 98
1963-1968:
Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 98 until after line end
1963:
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 98
1964:
US civil rights bill at age 99
1964-1975:
Vietnam War from age 99 until after line end
1965:
Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 100
1965:
1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 100

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