Personal Details

Born	September 5th, 1834
Birthplace	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Parents

Father	[800]	Joseph Blish 8
Mother	[800sa]	Abigail Ingersoll (Champney) Blish 8

Spouses, Mates & Children none known

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 9	Gen. 8	Gen. 7	Gen. 6	Gen. 5
Joseph Blish	Joseph Blish	Joseph Blish	Major Joseph Blish, Jr.	Lieutenant Joseph Blish
				Sarah (?) Crocker
			Temperance (Shaw) Blish	Rev. Oakes Shaw
				? (?) Shaw
		Mehitable (Freeman) Blish	Joshua Freeman	No Entry
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			Mehitable (Blossom) Freeman	? Blossom
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	Abigail Ingersoll (Champney) Blish	William Champney	No Entry	No Entry
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		Elizabeth (Ingersoll) Champney	? Ingersoll	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1834 to 1934

1478-1834: Torquemada's Spanish Inquisition from before birth until age 0 1828-1836: Andrew Jackson president of US from before birth until age 2 1829-1851: 2nd Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 17 1830-1860: Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US from before birth until age 26 1830-1837: Reign of King William IV (Hanover) from before birth until age 3 1834: Modern computer conceived by Charles Babbage at age 0 1835: Mormon leader Joseph Smith prophesies of 'coming of lord' by 1891 at age 1 1835-1842: 2nd Seminole War from age 1 to age 8 1835: Halley's Comet at age 1 1836: Battle of the Alamo at age 2 1836: Arkansas enters the union -25th at age 2 1836: Texas war for independence from Mexico at age 2 1837: Michigan enters the union - 26th at age 3 1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from age 3 to age 67 1837-1840: Martin Van Buren president of US from age 3 to age 6 1837: Depression and Panic in the US - inflation, speculation at age 3 1838-1839: Forced relocation of Cherokee from age 4 to age 5 1839-1842: Opium war between China and the English from age 5 to age 8 1841-1844: John Tyler president of US from age 7 to age 10 1842: Chinese cede Hong Kong to the English at age 8 1844: 1st telegraph line message, Washington to New York at age 10 1845: Florida enters the union - 27th at age 11 1845-1849: Irish Potato Famine from age 11 to age 15 1845-1848: James K Polk president of US from age 11 to age 14 1845: Texas enters the union - 28th at age 11 1846-1848: The Mexican-US War from age 12 to age 14 1846: Iowa enters the union - 29th at age 12 1848-1856: 1st gold rush in California -- Sutters Mill from age 14 to age 22 1848: NY allows women to own real estate at age 14 1848: Oregon organized as a territory at age 14 1848: Wisconsin enters the union - 30th at age 14 1849: Fizeau measures speed of light at age 15 1849-1852: Zachary Taylor president of the US from age 15 to age 18 1850: California enters the union - 31st at age 16 1850: New Mexico organized as a territory at age 16 1850: World pop. est. at 1.1 billion at age 16 1850: Utah (included Nevada) organized as a territory at age 16 1850: US pop reaches 23 million at age 16 1851: Gold rush in Australia at age 17 1852-1859: 3rd Cholera pandemic from age 18 to age 25 1853-1856: Franklin Pierce president of US from age 19 to age 22 1853: Washington (included pt. of Idaho) organized as a territory at age 19 1854-1856: Crimean War from age 20 to age 22 1854: Nebraska organized as a territory at age 20 1854: Kansas organized as a territory at age 20 1857: Dred Scott decision: Blacks could not be US citizens at age 23 1857-1866: Transatlantic cable laid from age 23 to age 32 1857-1860: James Buchanan president of US from age 23 to age 26 1858: Minnesota enters the union - 32nd at age 24 1858: India bill transfers government of India to England at age 24 1859: Oil Well at age 25 1859: Darwin pub. Origin Of Species at age 25 1859: Oregon enters the union - 33rd at age 25 1860: South Carolina Secedes from the Union at age 26 1860: Rifled barrel invented at age 26 1861-1865: Civil War from age 27 to age 31 1861: Kansas enters the union - 34th at age 27 1861: Transcontinental Telegraph completed at age 27 1861: Colorado organized as a territory at age 27 1861-1865: Confederate States of America Exist from age 27 to age 31 1861: Gold rush in New Zealand at age 27 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln president of US from age 27 to age 31 1861: Nevada organized as a territory at age 27 1861: North Dakota organized as a territory at age 27 1861: South Dakota organized as a territory at age 27 1861: The Apache Declare War on the US at age 27 1862: US Homestead act at age 28 1863: West Virginia enters the union - 35th at age 29 1863: Battle of Gettysburg at age 29 1863: Idaho organized as a territory at age 29 1863-1879: 4th Cholera pandemic from age 29 to age 45 1863: Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves at age 29 1863: Arizona organized as a territory at age 29 1864: Nevada enters the union - 36th at age 30 1864: Louisiana organized as a territory at age 30 1865: Lister invents Disinfection at age 31 1865: President Lincoln assassinated at age 31 1865: Ku Klux Klan founded at age 31 1866-1868: Andrew Johnson president of US from age 32 to age 34 1866: Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts) at age 32 1867: Dynamite at age 33 1867: Alaska purchased from Russia at age 33 1867: Diamonds discovered in South Africa at age 33 1867: Confederation of Canada at age 33 1867: Nebraska enters the union - 37th at age 33 1868-1878: War between Cuba and Spain from age 34 to age 44 1869-1876: Ulysses S Grant president of US from age 35 to age 42 1869: Suez canal opened at age 35 1869: Trans-continental railroad completed at age 35 1869: Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold at age 35 1869: Cutty Sark built at age 35 1870-1871: Franco-Prussian war from age 36 to age 37 1870: US black men can vote at age 36 1870: 1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) at age 36 1871: Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 37 1873-1878: Depression, banks fail from age 39 to age 44 1873: Color Photographs at age 39 1876: Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 42 1876: American Centennial at age 42 1876: Little Big Horn - Battle at age 42 1876: Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 42 1877-1880: Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 43 to age 46 1877: Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 43 1878: 1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 44 1879: Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 45 1879: Zulu war at age 45 1881: James A Garfield president of US at age 47 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from age 47 to age 62 1881-1885: Chester Arthur president of US from age 47 to age 51 1881: President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 47 1884: Motorcycle at age 50 1884: 1st subway at age 50 1885-1888: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 51 to age 54 1885: Automobile at age 51 1886: Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 52 1887: X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 53 1888: Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 54 1888: 70...77 rpm musical records at age 54 1889: North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 55 1889: South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 55 1889: Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 55 1889: Holerith invents the punch card at age 55 1889-1892: Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 55 to age 58 1889: Montana enters the union - 41st at age 55 1890: Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 56 1890: Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 56 1890: Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 56 1890: Battle of Wounded Knee at age 56 1891: Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 57 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from age 59 to age 63 1893: Movies at age 59 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 59 to age 62 1893: New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 59 1893: Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 59 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 60 to age 61 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 60 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 62 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 62 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 63 to age 67 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 64 1899-1902: Boer war from age 65 to age 68 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 65 to age 89 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 66 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 66 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 66 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 67 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 67 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 67 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 67 to age 74 1901: First British submarine launched at age 67 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 67 to age 76 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 67 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 67 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 69 1903: Airplane at age 69 1904: Radar at age 70 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 70 to age 71 1907: Plastic at age 73 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 73 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 74 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 75 to age 78 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 75 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 75 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 76 until after line end 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 76 1910: Halley's Comet at age 76 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 77 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 78 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 78 1912: Titanic sinks at age 78 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 78 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 79 to age 86 1914: The Bra at age 80 1914-1919: World War I from age 80 to age 85 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 81 1916: Sonar at age 82 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 82 1917: US enters WWI at age 83 1917: Russian revolution at age 83 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 84 to age 86 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 84 to age 99 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 85 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 85 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 86 1920: Palestine established at age 86 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 86 to age 95 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 87 to age 90 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 88 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 91 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 91 to age 94 1926: Sound in Movies at age 92 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 93 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 93 1928: Video Recordings at age 94 1928: Television at age 94 1928: Geiger Counter at age 94 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 94 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 95 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 95 until after line end 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 95 to age 98 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 96 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 97 to age 99 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 99 until after line end 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 99 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 99 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 99 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 100

Additional Information

After leaving school, he clerked for a time, then learned telegraphy and followed that occupation until the breaking out of the civil war, when he enlisted in the Burgess' Sharp Shooters, in Missouri, and served through the war. He was discharged in the south, and went to Texas looking for employment, and was never heard of afterward. Diligent search was made for him, but no trace discovered. He is believed to have been murdered, as Texas, at that time, was not a safe place for union soldiers.