Personal Details

Born	October 6th, 1836
Birthplace	Stamford, New York, USA
Baptized	No Entry
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Occupation(s)	General merchanising and lumber trade, farmer, sale of agricultural implements, BMS hardware store executive
Died	May 14th, 1907, aged about 71 years
Died at...	Atchinson, Kansas, USA
Cause of Death	No Entry
Burial Place	Mt. Vernon cemetery, Atchison, Kansas, USA
Disposition	No Entry

Parents

Father	[382]	Novatus Blish 6
Mother	[382_sb]	Mary (Mapes) Blish 6

Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [690_sa] - Lucinda (Silliman) Blish 7 Married by: No Entry Married at: Hobart, New York, USA Children by this spouse: No Records of Children

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 7	Gen. 6	Gen. 5	Gen. 4	Gen. 3
David Parshall Blish	Novatus Blish	Aaron Blish	David Blish, (***)	Tristham Blish, (***)
				Anne (Fuller) Blish
			Zeruiah (Skinner) Blish	Deacon Nathaniel Skinner
				Mary (Gillett) Skinner
		Roxanna (Webster) Blish	? Webster	No Entry
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			? (?) Webster	No Entry
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	Mary (Mapes) Blish	David Mapes	No Entry	No Entry
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		? (?) Mapes	No Entry	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1836 to 1907

1828-1836: Andrew Jackson president of US from before birth until age 0 1829-1851: 2nd Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 15 1830-1837: Reign of King William IV (Hanover) from before birth until age 1 1830-1860: Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US from before birth until age 24 1835-1842: 2nd Seminole War from before birth until age 6 1836: Arkansas enters the union -25th at age 0 1836: Battle of the Alamo at age 0 1836: Texas war for independence from Mexico at age 0 1837-1840: Martin Van Buren president of US from age 1 to age 4 1837: Depression and Panic in the US - inflation, speculation at age 1 1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from age 1 to age 65 1837: Michigan enters the union - 26th at age 1 1838-1839: Forced relocation of Cherokee from age 2 to age 3 1839-1842: Opium war between China and the English from age 3 to age 6 1841-1844: John Tyler president of US from age 5 to age 8 1842: Chinese cede Hong Kong to the English at age 6 1844: 1st telegraph line message, Washington to New York at age 8 1845: Florida enters the union - 27th at age 9 1845: Texas enters the union - 28th at age 9 1845-1848: James K Polk president of US from age 9 to age 12 1845-1849: Irish Potato Famine from age 9 to age 13 1846: Iowa enters the union - 29th at age 10 1846-1848: The Mexican-US War from age 10 to age 12 1848: Wisconsin enters the union - 30th at age 12 1848-1856: 1st gold rush in California -- Sutters Mill from age 12 to age 20 1848: NY allows women to own real estate at age 12 1848: Oregon organized as a territory at age 12 1849-1852: Zachary Taylor president of the US from age 13 to age 16 1849: Fizeau measures speed of light at age 13 1850: Utah (included Nevada) organized as a territory at age 14 1850: California enters the union - 31st at age 14 1850: New Mexico organized as a territory at age 14 1850: US pop reaches 23 million at age 14 1850: World pop. est. at 1.1 billion at age 14 1851: Gold rush in Australia at age 15 1852-1859: 3rd Cholera pandemic from age 16 to age 23 1853: Washington (included pt. of Idaho) organized as a territory at age 17 1853-1856: Franklin Pierce president of US from age 17 to age 20 1854-1856: Crimean War from age 18 to age 20 1854: Nebraska organized as a territory at age 18 1854: Kansas organized as a territory at age 18 1857-1860: James Buchanan president of US from age 21 to age 24 1857: Dred Scott decision: Blacks could not be US citizens at age 21 1857-1866: Transatlantic cable laid from age 21 to age 30 1858: Minnesota enters the union - 32nd at age 22 1858: India bill transfers government of India to England at age 22 1859: Oregon enters the union - 33rd at age 23 1859: Oil Well at age 23 1859: Darwin pub. Origin Of Species at age 23 1860: South Carolina Secedes from the Union at age 24 1860: Rifled barrel invented at age 24 1861-1865: Civil War from age 25 to age 29 1861: Nevada organized as a territory at age 25 1861: North Dakota organized as a territory at age 25 1861: The Apache Declare War on the US at age 25 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln president of US from age 25 to age 29 1861: Gold rush in New Zealand at age 25 1861: South Dakota organized as a territory at age 25 1861-1865: Confederate States of America Exist from age 25 to age 29 1861: Kansas enters the union - 34th at age 25 1861: Transcontinental Telegraph completed at age 25 1861: Colorado organized as a territory at age 25 1862: US Homestead act at age 26 1863: Idaho organized as a territory at age 27 1863-1879: 4th Cholera pandemic from age 27 to age 43 1863: Arizona organized as a territory at age 27 1863: Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves at age 27 1863: Battle of Gettysburg at age 27 1863: West Virginia enters the union - 35th at age 27 1864: Louisiana organized as a territory at age 28 1864: Nevada enters the union - 36th at age 28 1865: President Lincoln assassinated at age 29 1865: Ku Klux Klan founded at age 29 1865: Lister invents Disinfection at age 29 1866-1868: Andrew Johnson president of US from age 30 to age 32 1866: Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts) at age 30 1867: Alaska purchased from Russia at age 31 1867: Nebraska enters the union - 37th at age 31 1867: Confederation of Canada at age 31 1867: Dynamite at age 31 1867: Diamonds discovered in South Africa at age 31 1868-1878: War between Cuba and Spain from age 32 to age 42 1869: Trans-continental railroad completed at age 33 1869: Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold at age 33 1869: Suez canal opened at age 33 1869-1876: Ulysses S Grant president of US from age 33 to age 40 1869: Cutty Sark built at age 33 1870-1871: Franco-Prussian war from age 34 to age 35 1870: 1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) at age 34 1870: US black men can vote at age 34 1871: Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 35 1873-1878: Depression, banks fail from age 37 to age 42 1873: Color Photographs at age 37 1876: Little Big Horn - Battle at age 40 1876: Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 40 1876: American Centennial at age 40 1876: Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 40 1877-1880: Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 41 to age 44 1877: Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 41 1878: 1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 42 1879: Zulu war at age 43 1879: Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 43 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from age 45 to age 60 1881: President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 45 1881: James A Garfield president of US at age 45 1881-1885: Chester Arthur president of US from age 45 to age 49 1884: Motorcycle at age 48 1884: 1st subway at age 48 1885: Automobile at age 49 1885-1888: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 49 to age 52 1886: Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 50 1887: X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 51 1888: 70...77 rpm musical records at age 52 1888: Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 52 1889: South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 53 1889: Holerith invents the punch card at age 53 1889: Montana enters the union - 41st at age 53 1889: North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 53 1889-1892: Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 53 to age 56 1889: Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 53 1890: Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 54 1890: Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 54 1890: Battle of Wounded Knee at age 54 1890: Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 54 1891: Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 55 1893: Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 57 1893: Movies at age 57 1893: New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 57 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 57 to age 60 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from age 57 to age 61 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 58 to age 59 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 58 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 60 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 60 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 61 to age 65 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 62 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 63 until after line end 1899-1902: Boer war from age 63 to age 66 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 64 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 64 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 64 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 65 until after line end 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 65 until after line end 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 65 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 65 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 65 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 65 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 65 1901: First British submarine launched at age 65 1903: Airplane at age 67 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 67 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 68 to age 69 1904: Radar at age 68 1907: Plastic at age 71 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 71

Additional Information

David Parshall Blish was schooled in Stamford and Hobart, N.Y., and at the age of twenty, took Horace Greely's advice, and went west, arriving at Ripon, Wisconsin, in 1856, and for two years was in general merchandising and lumber trade. Returned to New York and remained about four years, during which time he was married. About 1862 he returned to Ripon, and engaged in farming for four years, then removed to Chicago, Illinois and egaged in the sale of agricultural implements for about two years, and then went to Atchison, Kansas where he resided as of the last information available at the time of this writing (the very early 1900's). He was the senior member of the wholesale hardware business of Blish,Mize & Silliman Hardware Company, a remarkably successful company, which was at first a partnership composed of himself and his brothers in law, E. A. Mize and J. B. Silliman. Later, the company name changed to Blish-Mize. Blish, Mize and Silliman Blish-Mize-Silliman (Mohawk) lock from the collection of Charles Benjamin Blish This appears to be the source of the Blish-Mize-Silliman business: From: William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas JOHN E. WAGNER, retired merchant, residence on Fourth street, South Atchison, is a native of France, born in Valenciennes, July 20, 1822. emigrated to the United States in 1850, and for eight years was connected with a large hardware store in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1858, having a desire, as thousands of other business men of the eastern cities had, to transfer his place of business to some of the young, enterprising towns of the West, he accordingly set forth, in July of that year, to look up a location, having his eye on St. Joseph, Leavenworth or Kansas City, all three of these towns at that time bearing a good name in the East. After his further examination of several of the western towns, Mr. Wagner decided that Atchison was a very desirable location, but was doubtful of the propriety of opening a hardware store in so small a place. He, however, met with Senator Pomeroy, whose faith in the location of Atchison as one that, in time, must make a large city, inspired Mr. Wagner with a similar confidence, and his decision was that this place should be his future home. Removing from Cincinnati, he at once opened his stock of hardware in the then only brick building in the town, standing on Commercial street, near the Levee, of which Mr. Wagner was the first occupant. Here he did business for two years, meeting with a liberal patronage of the people, and then removed to a frame building on the same street, between Second and Third; but after three years, the growth of the city had been so large that his place of business was too far from the business center, and he erected a brick building on the corner of Fourth and Commercial streets, three stories high and 25X75 feet, for his business had grown to such an extent that it needed a great deal of room for the display of goods. Here Mr. Wagner continued business until January, 1871, when he sold out to Messrs. Blish & Silliman, and during the same year, in company with his wife, took a trip embracing Colorado, California, Panama, Jamaica and San Domingo; and since that time they have made several voyages to Europe. Mrs. Wagner was born in Lierre, France, and both are original members of the Congregational Church of this city. Mr. Wagner erected the first residence in South Atchison, in 1859, and built his new residence, the present brick edifice, in 1880. Photo circa 1880 From a postal envelope, ca. 1899