Personal Details

Born	May 18th, 1890
Birthplace	Fleischmans (Griffen's Corners), county of Delaware, NY, USA
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Died	December 24th, 1966, aged about 76 years
Died at...	Fleishmanns, county of Delaware, NY, USA
Cause of Death	Heart attack
Burial Place	Halcott cemetery, Halcott Center, county of Delaware, NY, USA
Disposition	No Entry

Parents

Father	[296_c3]	John F. Blish 7
Mother	[296_c3_sa]	Jeannette (Ganung) Blish 7

Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [296c3c1sa] - Gertrude Esther (Mead) Blish 8 Married by: No Entry Married at: Fleischmanns (Griffen Corners), county of Delaware, NY, USA Children by this spouse: I [296c3c1c1]+ Marion A. Blish 9 b. September 30th, 1913 c. December

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 8	Gen. 7	Gen. 6	Gen. 5	Gen. 4
Arthur J. Blish	John F. Blish	Nicholas Blish	Silas Blish	Sylvanus Blish
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		Charlotte "Charity" (Ferguson) Blish	No Entry	No Entry
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	Jeannette (Ganung) Blish	No Entry	No Entry	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1890 to 1966

1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 11 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 6 1889-1892: Benjamin Harrison president of US from before birth until age 2 1890: Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 0 1890: Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 0 1890: Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 0 1890: Battle of Wounded Knee at age 0 1891: Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 1 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 3 to age 6 1893: Movies at age 3 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from age 3 to age 7 1893: New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 3 1893: Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 3 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 4 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 4 to age 5 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 6 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 6 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 7 to age 11 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 8 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 9 to age 33 1899-1902: Boer war from age 9 to age 12 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 10 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 10 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 10 1901: First British submarine launched at age 11 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 11 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 11 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 11 to age 20 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 11 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 11 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 11 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 11 to age 18 1903: Airplane at age 13 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 13 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 14 to age 15 1904: Radar at age 14 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 17 1907: Plastic at age 17 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 18 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 19 to age 22 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 19 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 19 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 20 to age 46 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 20 1910: Halley's Comet at age 20 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 21 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 22 1912: Titanic sinks at age 22 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 22 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 22 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 23 to age 30 1914: The Bra at age 24 1914-1919: World War I from age 24 to age 29 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 25 1916: Sonar at age 26 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 26 1917: US enters WWI at age 27 1917: Russian revolution at age 27 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 28 to age 30 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 28 to age 43 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 29 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 29 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 30 1920: Palestine established at age 30 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 30 to age 39 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 31 to age 34 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 32 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 35 to age 38 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 35 1926: Sound in Movies at age 36 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 37 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 37 1928: Video Recordings at age 38 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 38 1928: Geiger Counter at age 38 1928: Television at age 38 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 39 to age 42 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 39 to age 49 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 39 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 40 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 41 to age 43 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 43 to age 55 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 43 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 43 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 43 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 44 1935: Dustbowl at age 45 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 45 to age 46 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 46 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 46 to age 62 1936: Helicopter at age 46 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 46 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 47 to age 55 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 47 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 48 1939: Digital Computer at age 49 1939-1945: World War II from age 49 to age 55 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 49 1940: Color Television at age 50 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 50 1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 51 to age 55 1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 52 1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 52 1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 55 1945: Hypertext at age 55 1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 55 to age 62 1945: United Nations formed at age 55 1946-1989: The Cold War from age 56 until after line end 1946: The Bikini at age 56 1947: UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 57 1947: India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 57 1947: Transistor at age 57 1948: Israel inaugurated as state at age 58 1948: 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 58 1948: NATO formed at age 58 1948: Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 58 1949: Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 59 1949: 45 rpm musical recordings at age 59 1949: Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 59 1950: World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 60 1950: Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 60 1950-1953: Korean War from age 60 to age 63 1950-1954: McCarthyism from age 60 to age 64 1951: Electricity from Atomic Power at age 61 1952: 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 62 1952-2050: Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 62 until after line end 1953-1960: Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 63 to age 70 1954: Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 64 1955: Invention of Velcro at age 65 1955: Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 65 1955: Warsaw pact formed at age 65 1955: Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 65 1956: Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 66 1957: Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 67 1958: Integrated Circuit at age 68 1958: Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 68 1958: US space agency (NASA) established at age 68 1958: FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 68 1959: Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 69 1959: 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 69 1959: Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 69 1960: Pantyhose at age 70 1960: Laser at age 70 1960: World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 70 1960: 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 70 1961-1970: 7th Cholera pandemic from age 71 until after line end 1961: 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 71 1961: First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 71 1961-1963: John F Kennedy president of US from age 71 to age 73 1962: Cuban missile crisis at age 72 1962-1965: Vatican II from age 72 to age 75 1963: 1st artificial heart at age 73 1963: Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 73 1963-1968: Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 73 until after line end 1963: Compact Cassette Recordings at age 73 1964: US civil rights bill at age 74 1964-1975: Vietnam War from age 74 until after line end 1965: Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 75 1965: 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 75 1966: 8-track tape players at age 76 1966: 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 76

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