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Dr. Charles Blish

Generation:	7
Born:	April 12th, 1792
Died:	May 9th, 1861, aged about 69 years
Father:	Major Joseph Blish, Jr.
Mother:	Temperance (Shaw) Blish
Occupation(s):	Physician
Marriages:	• Rebeccah Ann (McGrew) Blish At Hampton, PA, USA
Children:	Annah Jessie Brown Blish Lemuel Shaw Blish Alice Alden Blish Emma Weld Blish Temperence Patience McGrew Blish Mary Ellen Marston Blish Francis Hartman Blish Ann Eliza Blish Retura Sydney (Blish) White Hannah Agnes (Blish) Herman Olive Oaks Blish Charles Marion Blish Sarah Adelaide Blish

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.

Charles Blish

Joseph Blish

Temperance (Shaw) Blish

Mehitable (Dimmick) Crocker

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Dr. Charles Blish

1792 through 1861

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