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Francis Bry Blish
Generation:9
Born:February 21st, 1852
Died:June 23rd, 1898, aged about 46 years
Father:Joseph Blish
Mother:Abigail Ingersoll (Champney) Blish
Occupation(s): Banker, bookkepper, clerk, cashier
Marriages:• Mary Madaline (Bronson) Blish
At LaSalle, Illinois, USA
Children:None known
After leaving school he was employed as clerk and bookkeeper, and from 1881 to 1893, he was Assistant cashier in the First National Bank of LaSalle, Illinois. Gradually failing health caused him to resign his position in the bank and move to Los Angeles, California. The change, however, was made too late, as he died June 23rd, 1898.

Francis Bry Blish
   Joseph BlishAbigail Ingersoll (Champney) Blish   
 Joseph BlishMehitable (Freeman) Blish  William ChampneyElizabeth (Ingersoll) Champney 
Joseph BlishTemperance (Shaw) BlishJoshua FreemanMehitable (Blossom) Freeman------? Ingersoll? (?) Ingersoll

Francis Bry Blish

1852 through 1898

1830-1860 Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US
1837-1901 Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover)
1848-1856 1st gold rush in California -- Sutters Mill
1849-1852 Zachary Taylor president of the US
1852-1859 3rd Cholera pandemic
1853-1856 Franklin Pierce president of US
  1853   Washington (included pt. of Idaho) organized as a territory
1854-1856 Crimean War
  1854   Nebraska organized as a territory
  1854   Kansas organized as a territory
  1856   Celluloid, the first thermoplastic
1857-1860 James Buchanan president of US
1857-1866 Transatlantic cable laid
  1857   Dred Scott decision: Blacks could not be US citizens
  1858   Minnesota enters the union - 32nd
  1858   India bill transfers government of India to England
  1859   Darwin pub. Origin Of Species
  1859   Oil Well
  1859   Oregon enters the union - 33rd
  1860   South Carolina Secedes from the Union
  1860   Rifled barrel invented
1861-1865 Abraham Lincoln president of US
  1861   Gold rush in New Zealand
  1861   Colorado organized as a territory
1861-1865 Confederate States of America Exist
  1861   North Dakota organized as a territory
1861-1865 Civil War
  1861   South Dakota organized as a territory
  1861   Nevada organized as a territory
  1861   Kansas enters the union - 34th
  1861   Transcontinental Telegraph completed
  1861   The Apache Declare War on the US
  1862   US Homestead act
  1863   Arizona organized as a territory
  1863   Idaho organized as a territory
  1863   West Virginia enters the union - 35th
  1863   Battle of Gettysburg
  1863   Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves
1863-1879 4th Cholera pandemic
  1864   Louisiana organized as a territory
  1864   Nevada enters the union - 36th
  1865   Ku Klux Klan founded
  1865   President Lincoln assassinated
  1865   Lister invents Disinfection
  1866   Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts)
1866-1868 Andrew Johnson president of US
  1867   Confederation of Canada
  1867   Diamonds discovered in South Africa
  1867   Dynamite
  1867   Nebraska enters the union - 37th
  1867   Alaska purchased from Russia
1868-1878 War between Cuba and Spain
  1868   Helium discovered (Norman Lockyer)
  1869   Suez canal opened
  1869   Trans-continental railroad completed
1869-1876 Ulysses S Grant president of US
  1869   Cutty Sark built
  1869   Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold
  1870   US black men can vote
  1870   1st black US senator (Hiram Revels)
1870-1871 Franco-Prussian war
  1871   Great Fire destroys Chicago
  1873   Color Photographs
1873-1878 Depression, banks fail
  1876   Colorado enters the union - 38th
  1876   Little Big Horn - Battle
  1876   Telephone (Bell, Latimer)
  1876   US Centennial
  1877   Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings
1877-1880 Ruthorford B Hayes president of US
  1878   1st commercial telephone exchange in US
  1879   Electric Light Bulb (Edison)
  1879   Zulu war
  1881   James A Garfield president of US
1881-1885 Chester Arthur president of US
  1881   President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care)
1881-1896 5th Cholera pandemic
  1884   1st subway
  1884   Motorcycle
  1885   Automobile
1885-1888 Grover Cleveland president of US
  1886   Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods)
  1887   X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!)
  1888   Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths
  1888   70...77 rpm musical records
  1889   Holerith invents the punch card
  1889   Washington enters the union - 42nd
1889-1892 Benjamin Harrison president of US
  1889   Montana enters the union - 41st
  1889   South Dakota enters the union - 40th
  1889   North Dakota enters the union - 39th
  1890   Idaho enters the union - 43rd
  1890   Wyoming enters the union - 44th
  1890   Battle of Wounded Knee
  1890   Oklahoma organized as a territory
  1891   Mormon prophesy of coming of lord by 1891 unfulfilled
  1893   New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote
1893-1896 Grover Cleveland president of US
1893-1897 US Financial panic, depression
  1893   Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!)
  1893   Movies
1894-1895 Chinese-Japanese war (1)
  1894   Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die
  1896   Utah enters the union - 45th
  1896   Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation
1897-1901 William McKinley president of US
  1898   Spanish American 1-year war