Personal Details

Born	February 25th, 1871
Birthplace	Wethersfield, Illinois, USA
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Occupation(s)	Ironmongery foreman, bakery owner
Died	No Entry
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Parents

Father	[1040]	Matthew Bonar Blish 8
Mother	[1040sa]	Martha Florence (Morrill) Blish 8

Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [1326sa] - Sarah Ann (Jones) Blish 9 Married by: No Entry Married at: Chicago, Illinois, USA Children by this spouse: I [1383] Florence Ethel Blish 10 b. April 16th, 1893 c. July

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 9	Gen. 8	Gen. 7	Gen. 6	Gen. 5
Charles Bonar Blish	Matthew Bonar Blish	Charles Cheney Blish, (***)	Colonel Sylvester Blish, (***)	Deacon Thomas Blish, (***)
				Prudence (Hubbard) Blish
			Rhoda (Cheney) Blish	Timothy Cheney
				Rhoda (Skinner) Cheney
		Elizabeth Potter (Bonar) Blish	Matthew Bonar	? Bonar
				? (?) Bonar
			Catharine (Cosner) Bonar	? Cosner
				? (?) Cosner
	Martha Florence (Morrill) Blish	Daniel Webster Morrill	No Entry	No Entry
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		Elizabeth Almira (Wedge) Morrill	? Wedge	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1871 to 1971

1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 30 1863-1879: 4th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 8 1868-1878: War between Cuba and Spain from before birth until age 7 1869-1876: Ulysses S Grant president of US from before birth until age 5 1870-1871: Franco-Prussian war from before birth until age 0 1871: Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 0 1873: Color Photographs at age 2 1873-1878: Depression, banks fail from age 2 to age 7 1876: Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 5 1876: Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 5 1876: Little Big Horn - Battle at age 5 1876: American Centennial at age 5 1877: Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 6 1877-1880: Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 6 to age 9 1878: 1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 7 1879: Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 8 1879: Zulu war at age 8 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from age 10 to age 25 1881: President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 10 1881-1885: Chester Arthur president of US from age 10 to age 14 1881: James A Garfield president of US at age 10 1884: Motorcycle at age 13 1884: 1st subway at age 13 1885-1888: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 14 to age 17 1885: Automobile at age 14 1886: Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 15 1887: X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 16 1888: Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 17 1888: 70...77 rpm musical records at age 17 1889-1892: Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 18 to age 21 1889: North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 18 1889: Holerith invents the punch card at age 18 1889: South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 18 1889: Montana enters the union - 41st at age 18 1889: Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 18 1890: Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 19 1890: Battle of Wounded Knee at age 19 1890: Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 19 1890: Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 19 1891: Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 20 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from age 22 to age 26 1893: Movies at age 22 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 22 to age 25 1893: New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 22 1893: Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 22 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 23 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 23 to age 24 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 25 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 25 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 26 to age 30 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 27 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 28 to age 52 1899-1902: Boer war from age 28 to age 31 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 29 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 29 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 29 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 30 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 30 1901: First British submarine launched at age 30 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 30 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 30 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 30 to age 39 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 30 to age 37 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 30 1903: Airplane at age 32 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 32 1904: Radar at age 33 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 33 to age 34 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 36 1907: Plastic at age 36 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 37 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 38 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 38 to age 41 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 38 1910: Halley's Comet at age 39 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 39 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 39 to age 65 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 40 1912: Titanic sinks at age 41 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 41 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 41 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 41 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 42 to age 49 1914-1919: World War I from age 43 to age 48 1914: The Bra at age 43 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 44 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 45 1916: Sonar at age 45 1917: Russian revolution at age 46 1917: US enters WWI at age 46 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 47 to age 49 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 47 to age 62 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 48 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 48 1920: Palestine established at age 49 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 49 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 49 to age 58 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 50 to age 53 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 51 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 54 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 54 to age 57 1926: Sound in Movies at age 55 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 56 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 56 1928: Video Recordings at age 57 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 57 1928: Geiger Counter at age 57 1928: Television at age 57 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 58 to age 68 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 58 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 58 to age 61 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 59 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 60 to age 62 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 62 to age 74 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 62 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 62 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 62 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 63 1935: Dustbowl at age 64 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 64 to age 65 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 65 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 65 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 65 to age 81 1936: Helicopter at age 65 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 66 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 66 to age 74 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 67 1939: Digital Computer at age 68 1939-1945: World War II from age 68 to age 74 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 68 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 69 1940: Color Television at age 69 1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 70 to age 74 1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 71 1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 71 1945: United Nations formed at age 74 1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 74 1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 74 to age 81 1945: Hypertext at age 74 1946: The Bikini at age 75 1946-1989: The Cold War from age 75 until after line end 1947: India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 76 1947: Transistor at age 76 1947: UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 76 1948: Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 77 1948: 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 77 1948: NATO formed at age 77 1948: Israel inaugurated as state at age 77 1949: Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 78 1949: Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 78 1949: 45 rpm musical recordings at age 78 1950: Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 79 1950: World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 79 1950-1954: McCarthyism from age 79 to age 83 1950-1953: Korean War from age 79 to age 82 1951: Electricity from Atomic Power at age 80 1952: 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 81 1952-2050: Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 81 until after line end 1953-1960: Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 82 to age 89 1954: Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 83 1955: Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 84 1955: Warsaw pact formed at age 84 1955: Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 84 1955: Invention of Velcro at age 84 1956: Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 85 1957: Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 86 1958: US space agency (NASA) established at age 87 1958: FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 87 1958: Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 87 1958: Integrated Circuit at age 87 1959: Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 88 1959: Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 88 1959: 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 88 1960: 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 89 1960: Pantyhose at age 89 1960: Laser at age 89 1960: World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 89 1961: First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 90 1961: 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 90 1961-1970: 7th Cholera pandemic from age 90 to age 99 1961-1963: John F Kennedy president of US from age 90 to age 92 1962: Cuban missile crisis at age 91 1962-1965: Vatican II from age 91 to age 94 1963: Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 92 1963-1968: Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 92 to age 97 1963: 1st artificial heart at age 92 1963: Compact Cassette Recordings at age 92 1964: US civil rights bill at age 93 1964-1975: Vietnam War from age 93 until after line end 1965: 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 94 1965: Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 94 1966: 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 95 1966: 8-track tape players at age 95 1967: 1st human heart transplant at age 96 1967: Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 96 1967: Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 96 1967: Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 96 1967-1970: Nigerian civil war from age 96 to age 99 1968: Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 97 1968: Martin Luther King assassinated at age 97 1969: Woodstock Music Festival at age 98 1969: Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 98 1969-1974: Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 98 until after line end 1970: Microprocessor at age 99 1970: Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 99 1971: Pakistani civil war at age 100 1971: Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 100

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