Personal Details

Born	January 13th, 1865
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

Spouses, Mates & Children none known

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 8	Gen. 7	Gen. 6	Gen. 5	Gen. 4
Tipton Shields Blish	John Hedding Blish	John Blish	Deacon David Blish	David Blish, (***)
				Zeruiah (Skinner) Blish
			Lucy (Wilcox) Blish	Obadiah Wilcox
				Sarah (Talcott) Wilcox
		Merab Ann (Wales) Blish	Stephen Wales	No Entry
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			Mary (?) Wales	No Entry
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	Sarah (Shields) Blish	Meedy White Shields	No Entry	No Entry
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		Eliza P. (Ewing) Shields	? Ewing	No 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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