Personal Details

Born	February 21st, 1852
Birthplace	LaSalle, Illinois, USA
Baptized	No Entry
Baptized at...	No Entry
Baptized by...	No Entry
Baptized in...	No Entry
Occupation(s)	Banker, bookkepper, clerk, cashier
Died	June 23rd, 1898, aged about 46 years
Died at...	Los Angeles, California, USA
Cause of Death	No Entry
Burial Place	Los Angeles, California, USA
Disposition	No Entry

Parents

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

Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [1151sa] - Mary Madaline (Bronson) Blish 9 Married by: No Entry Married at: LaSalle, Illinois, USA Children by this spouse: No Records of Children

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 9	Gen. 8	Gen. 7	Gen. 6	Gen. 5
Francis Bry 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
				? (?) Blossom
	Abigail Ingersoll (Champney) Blish	William Champney	No Entry	No Entry
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			No Entry	No Entry
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		Elizabeth (Ingersoll) Champney	? Ingersoll	No Entry
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			? (?) Ingersoll	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1852 to 1898

1830-1860: Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US from before birth until age 8 1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until after line end 1848-1856: 1st gold rush in California -- Sutters Mill from before birth until age 4 1849-1852: Zachary Taylor president of the US from before birth until age 0 1852-1859: 3rd Cholera pandemic from age 0 to age 7 1853: Washington (included pt. of Idaho) organized as a territory at age 1 1853-1856: Franklin Pierce president of US from age 1 to age 4 1854-1856: Crimean War from age 2 to age 4 1854: Nebraska organized as a territory at age 2 1854: Kansas organized as a territory at age 2 1857-1866: Transatlantic cable laid from age 5 to age 14 1857-1860: James Buchanan president of US from age 5 to age 8 1857: Dred Scott decision: Blacks could not be US citizens at age 5 1858: Minnesota enters the union - 32nd at age 6 1858: India bill transfers government of India to England at age 6 1859: Darwin pub. Origin Of Species at age 7 1859: Oil Well at age 7 1859: Oregon enters the union - 33rd at age 7 1860: Rifled barrel invented at age 8 1860: South Carolina Secedes from the Union at age 8 1861-1865: Confederate States of America Exist from age 9 to age 13 1861-1865: Civil War from age 9 to age 13 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln president of US from age 9 to age 13 1861: Nevada organized as a territory at age 9 1861: Colorado organized as a territory at age 9 1861: The Apache Declare War on the US at age 9 1861: Kansas enters the union - 34th at age 9 1861: North Dakota organized as a territory at age 9 1861: Gold rush in New Zealand at age 9 1861: South Dakota organized as a territory at age 9 1861: Transcontinental Telegraph completed at age 9 1862: US Homestead act at age 10 1863-1879: 4th Cholera pandemic from age 11 to age 27 1863: West Virginia enters the union - 35th at age 11 1863: Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves at age 11 1863: Idaho organized as a territory at age 11 1863: Battle of Gettysburg at age 11 1863: Arizona organized as a territory at age 11 1864: Nevada enters the union - 36th at age 12 1864: Louisiana organized as a territory at age 12 1865: President Lincoln assassinated at age 13 1865: Ku Klux Klan founded at age 13 1865: Lister invents Disinfection at age 13 1866-1868: Andrew Johnson president of US from age 14 to age 16 1866: Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts) at age 14 1867: Confederation of Canada at age 15 1867: Dynamite at age 15 1867: Alaska purchased from Russia at age 15 1867: Diamonds discovered in South Africa at age 15 1867: Nebraska enters the union - 37th at age 15 1868-1878: War between Cuba and Spain from age 16 to age 26 1869-1876: Ulysses S Grant president of US from age 17 to age 24 1869: Trans-continental railroad completed at age 17 1869: Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold at age 17 1869: Cutty Sark built at age 17 1869: Suez canal opened at age 17 1870: US black men can vote at age 18 1870: 1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) at age 18 1870-1871: Franco-Prussian war from age 18 to age 19 1871: Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 19 1873: Color Photographs at age 21 1873-1878: Depression, banks fail from age 21 to age 26 1876: Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 24 1876: Little Big Horn - Battle at age 24 1876: Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 24 1876: American Centennial at age 24 1877: Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 25 1877-1880: Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 25 to age 28 1878: 1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 26 1879: Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 27 1879: Zulu war at age 27 1881: James A Garfield president of US at age 29 1881-1885: Chester Arthur president of US from age 29 to age 33 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from age 29 to age 44 1881: President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 29 1884: Motorcycle at age 32 1884: 1st subway at age 32 1885: Automobile at age 33 1885-1888: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 33 to age 36 1886: Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 34 1887: X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 35 1888: 70...77 rpm musical records at age 36 1888: Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 36 1889: Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 37 1889-1892: Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 37 to age 40 1889: Montana enters the union - 41st at age 37 1889: South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 37 1889: North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 37 1889: Holerith invents the punch card at age 37 1890: Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 38 1890: Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 38 1890: Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 38 1890: Battle of Wounded Knee at age 38 1891: Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 39 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from age 41 to age 45 1893: New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 41 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 41 to age 44 1893: Movies at age 41 1893: Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 41 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 42 to age 43 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 42 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 44 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 44 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 45 until after line end 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 46

Additional Information

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.