Personal Details

Born	April 12th, 1792
Birthplace	West Barnstable, county of Barnstable, MA, USA
Baptized	October, 1800
Baptized at...	West Barnstable, county of Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA
Baptized by...	No Entry
Baptized in...	West Church
Occupation(s)	Physician
Died	May 9th, 1861, aged about 69 years
Died at...	Hampton, PA, USA
Cause of Death	No Entry
Burial Place	No Entry
Disposition	No Entry

Parents

Father	[229]	Major Joseph Blish, Jr. 6
Mother	[229_sa]	Temperance (Shaw) Blish 6

Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [421_sa] - Rebeccah Ann (McGrew) Blish 7 Married by: No Entry Married at: Hampton, PA, USA Children by this spouse: I [807] Ann Eliza Blish 8 b. No Entry c. ? II [808] Annah Jessie Brown Blish 8 b. No Entry c. ? III [809] Lemuel Shaw Blish 8 b. No Entry c. ? IV [810] Alice Alden Blish 8 b. No Entry c. ? V [811] Emma Weld Blish 8 b. No Entry c. ? VI [812] Temperence Patience McGrew Blish 8 b. No Entry c. ? VII [813] Mary Ellen Marston Blish 8 b. No Entry c. ? VIII [814] Francis Hartman Blish 8 b. No Entry c. ? IX [803]+ Retura Sydney (Blish) White 8 b. December 28th, 1823 c. March X [804] Hannah Agnes (Blish) Herman 8 b. October 30th, 1825 c. January XI [805] Olive Oaks Blish 8 b. August, 1827 c. November XII [806] Charles Marion Blish 8 b. 1829 c. ? XIII [815] Sarah Adelaide Blish 8 b. September 29th, 1846 c. December

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 7	Gen. 6	Gen. 5	Gen. 4	Gen. 3
Dr. Charles Blish	Major Joseph Blish, Jr.	Lieutenant Joseph Blish	Deacon Joseph Blish	Joseph Blish
				Hannah (Child) Blish
			Hannah (Child) Blish	No Entry
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		Sarah (?) Crocker	Thomas Crocker	No Entry
				No Entry
			Mehitable (Dimmick) Crocker	No Entry
				No Entry
	Temperance (Shaw) Blish	Rev. Oakes Shaw	No Entry	No Entry
				No Entry
			No Entry	No Entry
				No Entry
		? (?) Shaw	No Entry	No Entry
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			No Entry	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1792 to 1861

1231-1808: Papal Inquisition from before birth until age 16 1478-1834: Torquemada's Spanish Inquisition from before birth until age 42 1760-1820: Reign of King George III (Hanover) from before birth until age 28 1789-1796: George Washington selected 1st President from before birth until age 4 1792: Denmark 1st to forbid trade in slaves at age 0 1792-1815: Napoleonic war from age 0 to age 23 1792: Kentucky enters the union - 15th at age 0 1793: Marie Antoinette beheaded at age 1 1793: Eli Whitney invents Cotton Gin (increases need for slaves) at age 1 1794: US Post Office Established at age 2 1794: Slavery abolished in French colonies at age 2 1794: US Navy Established at age 2 1796: France's presses get right of free speech at age 4 1796-1800: John Adams elected 2nd president of US from age 4 to age 8 1796: Tennesee enters the union - 16th at age 4 1796: Vaccination against Smallpox at age 4 1798: Mississippi organized as a territory at age 6 1798: US Marine Corps Established at age 6 1798: Lithography at age 6 1798-1800: Undeclared war with France from age 6 to age 8 1799: Rosetta Stone found at age 7 1800: 1st Battery (Volta) at age 8 1800: US capital moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC at age 8 1800-1809: Thomas Jefferson elected president of US from age 8 to age 17 1800: Russia annexes Georgia at age 8 1802: Babylonian cuniform deciphered at age 10 1803: Fulton propels vessel by steampower at age 11 1803: Ohio enters the union - 17th at age 11 1803: Louisiana Territory Purchased at age 11 1804-1806: Lewis and Clark Expedition from age 12 to age 14 1804: Haiti independent - 1st black country in West. Hemis. at age 12 1805: Morphine isolated at age 13 1805: Thomas Jefferson re-elected president of US at age 13 1807: Robert Fulton makes 1st practical steamboat voyage at age 15 1808: Pompeii excavation begins in earnest at age 16 1808: Import of new slaves into US Is banned at age 16 1809: Charles Darwin born at age 17 1809-1816: James Madison elected president of US from age 17 to age 24 1810: US pop. reaches 7.2 million at age 18 1810: Homeopathy founded at age 18 1812: Louisiana enters the union - 18th at age 20 1812-1814: War of 1812 from age 20 to age 22 1812: Missouri organized as a territory at age 20 1815: French outlaw slavery in France at age 23 1815: Sumbawa volcano (Indonesia) erupts; 50,000 killed at age 23 1815: Battle of Waterloo at age 23 1816: Photographic Negative at age 24 1816: Stethoscope at age 24 1816: Indiana enters the union - 19th at age 24 1817-1824: James Monroe president of US from age 25 to age 32 1817: Mississippi enters the union - 20th at age 25 1817: Alabama organized as a territory at age 25 1817-1825: Erie canal constructed from age 25 to age 33 1817-1823: 1st Cholera pandemic from age 25 to age 31 1817: Pentrich Revolution - England's last revolution at age 25 1818: Savannah 1st steamship to cross the Atlantic at age 26 1818: Illinois enters the union - 21st at age 26 1819: Alabama enters the union - 22nd at age 27 1819: Arkansas organized as a territory at age 27 1819: Oersted discovers electro-magnetism at age 27 1820-1830: Reign of King George IV (Hanover) from age 28 to age 38 1820: Maine enters the union - 23rd at age 28 1821: 1st US women's college at age 29 1821: US pop. reaches 9.2 million at age 29 1821-1829: Greek war of Independence from age 29 to age 37 1821: Missouri enters the union - 24th at age 29 1822: Florida organized as a territory at age 30 1824-1828: John Quincy Adams president of US from age 32 to age 36 1824: Internal Combustion Engine at age 32 1824: Erie canal finished at age 32 1826: 1st railroad tunnel (England) at age 34 1827: 1st Black newspaper Freedom's Journal at age 35 1827: Ohms Law formulated at age 35 1827: Ship's propeller (screw) at age 35 1828: 1st Webster's Dictionary at age 36 1828-1836: Andrew Jackson president of US from age 36 to age 44 1828: 1st railroad in the US at age 36 1829: 1st US patent on a typewriter at age 37 1829-1851: 2nd Cholera pandemic from age 37 to age 59 1830: Mormons (Latter Day Saints) founded at age 38 1830-1837: Reign of King William IV (Hanover) from age 38 to age 45 1830-1860: Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US from age 38 to age 68 1832: Horse-drawn trolleys in New York at age 40 1833: Slavery abolished in British Empire (home and colonies) at age 41 1833: Telegraph at age 41 1834: Modern computer conceived by Charles Babbage at age 42 1835-1842: 2nd Seminole War from age 43 to age 50 1835: Halley's Comet at age 43 1835: Mormon leader Joseph Smith prophesies of 'coming of lord' by 1891 at age 43 1836: Texas war for independence from Mexico at age 44 1836: Battle of the Alamo at age 44 1836: Arkansas enters the union -25th at age 44 1837-1840: Martin Van Buren president of US from age 45 to age 48 1837: Michigan enters the union - 26th at age 45 1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from age 45 until after line end 1837: Depression and Panic in the US - inflation, speculation at age 45 1838-1839: Forced relocation of Cherokee from age 46 to age 47 1839-1842: Opium war between China and the English from age 47 to age 50 1841-1844: John Tyler president of US from age 49 to age 52 1842: Chinese cede Hong Kong to the English at age 50 1844: 1st telegraph line message, Washington to New York at age 52 1845: Florida enters the union - 27th at age 53 1845: Texas enters the union - 28th at age 53 1845-1848: James K Polk president of US from age 53 to age 56 1845-1849: Irish Potato Famine from age 53 to age 57 1846: Iowa enters the union - 29th at age 54 1846-1848: The Mexican-US War from age 54 to age 56 1848: NY allows women to own real estate at age 56 1848: Wisconsin enters the union - 30th at age 56 1848: Oregon organized as a territory at age 56 1848-1856: 1st gold rush in California -- Sutters Mill from age 56 to age 64 1849: Fizeau measures speed of light at age 57 1849-1852: Zachary Taylor president of the US from age 57 to age 60 1850: World pop. est. at 1.1 billion at age 58 1850: California enters the union - 31st at age 58 1850: New Mexico organized as a territory at age 58 1850: Utah (included Nevada) organized as a territory at age 58 1850: US pop reaches 23 million at age 58 1851: Gold rush in Australia at age 59 1852-1859: 3rd Cholera pandemic from age 60 to age 67 1853: Washington (included pt. of Idaho) organized as a territory at age 61 1853-1856: Franklin Pierce president of US from age 61 to age 64 1854: Nebraska organized as a territory at age 62 1854: Kansas organized as a territory at age 62 1854-1856: Crimean War from age 62 to age 64 1857: Dred Scott decision: Blacks could not be US citizens at age 65 1857-1866: Transatlantic cable laid from age 65 until after line end 1857-1860: James Buchanan president of US from age 65 to age 68 1858: Minnesota enters the union - 32nd at age 66 1858: India bill transfers government of India to England at age 66 1859: Oregon enters the union - 33rd at age 67 1859: Darwin pub. Origin Of Species at age 67 1859: Oil Well at age 67 1860: South Carolina Secedes from the Union at age 68 1860: Rifled barrel invented at age 68 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln president of US from age 69 until after line end 1861: South Dakota organized as a territory at age 69 1861: North Dakota organized as a territory at age 69 1861: Gold rush in New Zealand at age 69 1861: Kansas enters the union - 34th at age 69 1861-1865: Civil War from age 69 until after line end 1861: Colorado organized as a territory at age 69 1861-1865: Confederate States of America Exist from age 69 until after line end 1861: The Apache Declare War on the US at age 69 1861: Transcontinental Telegraph completed at age 69 1861: Nevada organized as a territory at age 69

Additional Information

Charles Blish had an academic education and studied medicine with the intention of fitting himself for a ship's surgeon, and while on his way to go on board his vessel, he was thrown from his carriage and had a leg broken. He returned home and after his recovery spent some time in Norfolk, Virginia, and then returned to Pennsylvania, resuming his practice, and finally settled at Hampton, Pennsylvania, where he remained until the end of his days.