Personal Details

Born	November 29th, 1862
Birthplace	Galena, Illinois, USA
Baptized	No Entry
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Occupation(s)	Businessman - founded Harger and Blish
Died	January 11th, 1932, aged about 70 years
Died at...	No Entry
Cause of Death	heart attack
Burial Place	Linwood Cemetery, Dubuque, Iowa, USA
Disposition	No Entry

Parents

Father	[1027]	Henry Sylvester Blish 8
Mother	[1027sa]	Elizabeth Fraley (Bockius) Blish 8

Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [1318sa] - Elizabeth Morse (Maclay) Blish 9 Married by: No Entry Married at: Dubuque, Iowa, USA Children by this spouse: I [1374] Herbert Harger Blish 10 b. January 4th, 1889 c. April II [1375] Marjorie Blish 10 b. July 26th, 1894 c. October

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 9	Gen. 8	Gen. 7	Gen. 6	Gen. 5
Henry Herbert Blish	Henry Sylvester Blish	Thomas Blish	Colonel Sylvester Blish, (***)	Deacon Thomas Blish, (***)
				Prudence (Hubbard) Blish
			Rhoda (Cheney) Blish	Timothy Cheney
				Rhoda (Skinner) Cheney
		Wealthy Ann (Buck) Blish	Halsey Buck	No Entry
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			Sarah (Wood) Buck	? Wood
				? (?) Wood
	Elizabeth Fraley (Bockius) Blish	Francis W. Bockius	No Entry	No Entry
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		Margaretta (Bringhurst) Bockius	? Bringhurst	No Entry
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			? (?) Bringhurst	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1862 to 1932

1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 39 1857-1866: Transatlantic cable laid from before birth until age 4 1861-1865: Confederate States of America Exist from before birth until age 3 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln president of US from before birth until age 3 1861-1865: Civil War from before birth until age 3 1862: US Homestead act at age 0 1863: Arizona organized as a territory at age 1 1863-1879: 4th Cholera pandemic from age 1 to age 17 1863: Idaho organized as a territory at age 1 1863: Battle of Gettysburg at age 1 1863: Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves at age 1 1863: West Virginia enters the union - 35th at age 1 1864: Louisiana organized as a territory at age 2 1864: Nevada enters the union - 36th at age 2 1865: Lister invents Disinfection at age 3 1865: President Lincoln assassinated at age 3 1865: Ku Klux Klan founded at age 3 1866: Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts) at age 4 1866-1868: Andrew Johnson president of US from age 4 to age 6 1867: Diamonds discovered in South Africa at age 5 1867: Dynamite at age 5 1867: Alaska purchased from Russia at age 5 1867: Nebraska enters the union - 37th at age 5 1867: Confederation of Canada at age 5 1868-1878: War between Cuba and Spain from age 6 to age 16 1869: Cutty Sark built at age 7 1869: Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold at age 7 1869: Trans-continental railroad completed at age 7 1869: Suez canal opened at age 7 1869-1876: Ulysses S Grant president of US from age 7 to age 14 1870: US black men can vote at age 8 1870: 1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) at age 8 1870-1871: Franco-Prussian war from age 8 to age 9 1871: Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 9 1873: Color Photographs at age 11 1873-1878: Depression, banks fail from age 11 to age 16 1876: Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 14 1876: Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 14 1876: American Centennial at age 14 1876: Little Big Horn - Battle at age 14 1877-1880: Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 15 to age 18 1877: Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 15 1878: 1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 16 1879: Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 17 1879: Zulu war at age 17 1881: President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 19 1881: James A Garfield president of US at age 19 1881-1885: Chester Arthur president of US from age 19 to age 23 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from age 19 to age 34 1884: Motorcycle at age 22 1884: 1st subway at age 22 1885: Automobile at age 23 1885-1888: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 23 to age 26 1886: Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 24 1887: X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 25 1888: 70...77 rpm musical records at age 26 1888: Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 26 1889: South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 27 1889: Montana enters the union - 41st at age 27 1889: Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 27 1889: Holerith invents the punch card at age 27 1889-1892: Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 27 to age 30 1889: North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 27 1890: Battle of Wounded Knee at age 28 1890: Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 28 1890: Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 28 1890: Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 28 1891: Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 29 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from age 31 to age 35 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 31 to age 34 1893: Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 31 1893: New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 31 1893: Movies at age 31 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 32 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 32 to age 33 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 34 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 34 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 35 to age 39 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 36 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 37 to age 61 1899-1902: Boer war from age 37 to age 40 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 38 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 38 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 38 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 39 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 39 to age 46 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 39 to age 48 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 39 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 39 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 39 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 39 1901: First British submarine launched at age 39 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 41 1903: Airplane at age 41 1904: Radar at age 42 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 42 to age 43 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 45 1907: Plastic at age 45 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 46 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 47 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 47 to age 50 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 47 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 48 until after line end 1910: Halley's Comet at age 48 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 48 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 49 1912: Titanic sinks at age 50 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 50 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 50 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 50 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 51 to age 58 1914: The Bra at age 52 1914-1919: World War I from age 52 to age 57 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 53 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 54 1916: Sonar at age 54 1917: Russian revolution at age 55 1917: US enters WWI at age 55 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 56 to age 58 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 56 until after line end 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 57 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 57 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 58 to age 67 1920: Palestine established at age 58 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 58 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 59 to age 62 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 60 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 63 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 63 to age 66 1926: Sound in Movies at age 64 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 65 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 65 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 66 1928: Television at age 66 1928: Video Recordings at age 66 1928: Geiger Counter at age 66 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 67 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 67 until after line end 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 67 to age 70 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 68 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 69 until after line end

Additional Information

Harger and Blish Letterhead Henry Herbert Blish was educated at Dubique, Iowa. At the age of fifteen he entered the book store of Grosvenor & Harger, then the largest store of its kind in Dubuque. A few years later he formed a partnership with the junior member of the firm, under the name Harger & Blish, which has been very successful. He has the reputation of being one of Dubuque's best businessmen, and is both energetic and affable. The firm of Harger & Blish was formed at Dubuque, Iowa in 1888 and when in 1910 a branch was opened in Des Moines, Iowa, Henry Herbert Blish went there to assume personal charge. The company was the distributor for several well known makes of phonographs and radios, including the Edison. From that association there developed a personal friendship between Mr. Blish and Thomas A. Edison. Henry Herbert Blish was prominent in many civic activities, a charter member of the Des Moines Rotary Club, a vestryman of St. Paul's Episcopal Church and an active Mason. At the time of his death an editorial in the Des Moines paper said in part, "one of the conspicious traits of his business life was the faculty of winning and retaining the loyalty of large numbers of business associates. His unfailing tact, courtesy and kindliness will not soon be forgotton."