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Elizabeth Morse (Maclay) Blish 9 [f]
9th Generation

Personal Details
Born November 8th, 1863 No Image On File
Birthplace Dubuque, Iowa, USA
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Occupation(s) Founded Harger and Blish
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Parents
Father [1318saf]John Maclay 8 No Image On File
Mother [1318sam]Anna (Alexander) Maclay 8 No Image On File

Spouses, Mates & Children
Husband #1
[1318] - Henry Herbert Blish 9

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Married at: Dubuque, Iowa, USA

Children by this spouse:
I [1374] Herbert Harger Blish 10 b. January 4th, 1889 c. April No Image On File
II [1375] Marjorie Blish 10 b. July 26th, 1894 c. October No Image On File
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Personalized History Timeline, 1863 to 1963
1837-1901:
Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 38
1857-1866:
Transatlantic cable laid from before birth until age 3
1861-1865:
Confederate States of America Exist from before birth until age 2
1861-1865:
Civil War from before birth until age 2
1861-1865:
Abraham Lincoln president of US from before birth until age 2
1863:
Battle of Gettysburg at age 0
1863:
Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves at age 0
1863:
West Virginia enters the union - 35th at age 0
1863-1879:
4th Cholera pandemic from age 0 to age 16
1863:
Arizona organized as a territory at age 0
1863:
Idaho organized as a territory at age 0
1864:
Nevada enters the union - 36th at age 1
1864:
Louisiana organized as a territory at age 1
1865:
President Lincoln assassinated at age 2
1865:
Ku Klux Klan founded at age 2
1865:
Lister invents Disinfection at age 2
1866:
Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts) at age 3
1866-1868:
Andrew Johnson president of US from age 3 to age 5
1867:
Diamonds discovered in South Africa at age 4
1867:
Nebraska enters the union - 37th at age 4
1867:
Dynamite at age 4
1867:
Alaska purchased from Russia at age 4
1867:
Confederation of Canada at age 4
1868-1878:
War between Cuba and Spain from age 5 to age 15
1869:
Suez canal opened at age 6
1869:
Cutty Sark built at age 6
1869:
Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold at age 6
1869:
Trans-continental railroad completed at age 6
1869-1876:
Ulysses S Grant president of US from age 6 to age 13
1870:
1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) at age 7
1870:
US black men can vote at age 7
1870-1871:
Franco-Prussian war from age 7 to age 8
1871:
Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 8
1873:
Color Photographs at age 10
1873-1878:
Depression, banks fail from age 10 to age 15
1876:
Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 13
1876:
Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 13
1876:
American Centennial at age 13
1876:
Little Big Horn - Battle at age 13
1877-1880:
Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 14 to age 17
1877:
Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 14
1878:
1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 15
1879:
Zulu war at age 16
1879:
Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 16
1881:
James A Garfield president of US at age 18
1881:
President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 18
1881-1885:
Chester Arthur president of US from age 18 to age 22
1881-1896:
5th Cholera pandemic from age 18 to age 33
1884:
Motorcycle at age 21
1884:
1st subway at age 21
1885:
Automobile at age 22
1885-1888:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 22 to age 25
1886:
Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 23
1887:
X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 24
1888:
Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 25
1888:
70...77 rpm musical records at age 25
1889:
Holerith invents the punch card at age 26
1889:
North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 26
1889:
South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 26
1889:
Montana enters the union - 41st at age 26
1889:
Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 26
1889-1892:
Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 26 to age 29
1890:
Battle of Wounded Knee at age 27
1890:
Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 27
1890:
Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 27
1890:
Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 27
1891:
Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 28
1893-1897:
US Financial panic, depression from age 30 to age 34
1893:
Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 30
1893:
Movies at age 30
1893:
New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 30
1893-1896:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 30 to age 33
1894-1895:
Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 31 to age 32
1894:
Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 31
1896:
Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 33
1896:
Utah enters the union - 45th at age 33
1897-1901:
William McKinley president of US from age 34 to age 38
1898:
Spanish American 1-year war at age 35
1899-1902:
Boer war from age 36 to age 39
1899-1923:
6th Cholera pandemic from age 36 to age 60
1900:
Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 37
1900:
Hawaii organized as a territory at age 37
1900:
Boxer rebellion in China at age 37
1901-1910:
Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 38 to age 47
1901-1908:
Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 38 to age 45
1901:
First British submarine launched at age 38
1901:
Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 38
1901:
Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 38
1901:
Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 38
1901:
Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 38
1901:
US President William McKinley assassinated at age 38
1903:
Airplane at age 40
1903:
Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 40
1904:
Radar at age 41
1904-1905:
Russian-Japanese war from age 41 to age 42
1907:
Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 44
1907:
Plastic at age 44
1908:
Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 45
1909-1912:
William Howard Taft president of US from age 46 to age 49
1909:
North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 46
1909:
Union of South Africa formed at age 46
1910:
Halley's Comet at age 47
1910:
Japan annexes Korea at age 47
1910-1936:
Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 47 to age 73
1911:
South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 48
1912:
Alaska organized as a territory at age 49
1912:
Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 49
1912:
New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 49
1912:
Titanic sinks at age 49
1913-1920:
Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 50 to age 57
1914-1919:
World War I from age 51 to age 56
1914:
The Bra at age 51
1915:
Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 52
1916:
Irish Easter Rebellion at age 53
1916:
Sonar at age 53
1917:
US enters WWI at age 54
1917:
Russian revolution at age 54
1918-1933:
Prohibition from age 55 to age 70
1918-1920:
Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 55 to age 57
1919:
League of Nations instantiated at age 56
1919:
Shortwave Radio at age 56
1920-1929:
Roaring 20's from age 57 to age 66
1920:
Women receive right to vote in USA at age 57
1920:
Palestine established at age 57
1921-1924:
Warren G Harding president of US from age 58 to age 61
1922:
Insulin made available to diabetics at age 59
1925-1928:
Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 62 to age 65
1925:
Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 62
1926:
Sound in Movies at age 63
1927:
1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 64
1927:
Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 64
1928:
Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 65
1928:
Geiger Counter at age 65
1928:
Television at age 65
1928:
Video Recordings at age 65
1929-1932:
Herbert Hoover president of US from age 66 to age 69
1929:
Stock Market Crash at age 66
1929-1939:
Great Depression from age 66 to age 76
1930:
Pluto Discovered at age 67
1931-1933:
Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 68 to age 70
1933:
Radio Astronomy at age 70
1933-1945:
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 70 to age 82
1933:
Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 70
1933:
Soviet communist party purge at age 70
1934:
Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 71
1935:
Dustbowl at age 72
1935-1936:
Abyssinian war from age 72 to age 73
1936:
Helicopter at age 73
1936:
Spanish Civil War at age 73
1936-1952:
Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 73 to age 89
1936:
Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 73
1937-1945:
Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 74 to age 82
1937:
Nylon (by DuPont) at age 74
1938:
Germany annexes Austria at age 75
1939-1945:
World War II from age 76 to age 82
1939:
Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 76
1939:
Digital Computer at age 76
1940:
Color Television at age 77
1940:
1st black general in US army at age 77
1941-1945:
Manhattan Project from age 78 to age 82
1942:
Magnetic Recording Tape at age 79
1942:
Nuclear Reactor at age 79
1945:
Hypertext at age 82
1945-1952:
Harry S Truman president of US from age 82 to age 89
1945:
United Nations formed at age 82
1945:
US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 82
1946:
The Bikini at age 83
1946-1989:
The Cold War from age 83 until after line end
1947:
Transistor at age 84
1947:
India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 84
1947:
UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 84
1948:
33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 85
1948:
Israel inaugurated as state at age 85
1948:
Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 85
1948:
NATO formed at age 85
1949:
Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 86
1949:
45 rpm musical recordings at age 86
1949:
Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 86
1950-1953:
Korean War from age 87 to age 90
1950:
World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 87
1950:
Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 87
1950-1954:
McCarthyism from age 87 to age 91
1951:
Electricity from Atomic Power at age 88
1952-2050:
Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 89 until after line end
1952:
1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 89
1953-1960:
Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 90 to age 97
1954:
Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 91
1955:
Warsaw pact formed at age 92
1955:
Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 92
1955:
Invention of Velcro at age 92
1955:
Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 92
1956:
Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 93
1957:
Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 94
1958:
FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 95
1958:
Integrated Circuit at age 95
1958:
Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 95
1958:
US space agency (NASA) established at age 95
1959:
Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 96
1959:
Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 96
1959:
1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 96
1960:
World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 97
1960:
1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 97
1960:
Laser at age 97
1960:
Pantyhose at age 97
1961-1963:
John F Kennedy president of US from age 98 to age 100
1961:
First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 98
1961-1970:
7th Cholera pandemic from age 98 until after line end
1961:
1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 98
1962-1965:
Vatican II from age 99 until after line end
1962:
Cuban missile crisis at age 99
1963-1968:
Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 100 until after line end
1963:
1st artificial heart at age 100
1963:
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 100
1963:
Compact Cassette Recordings at age 100

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