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1324
Asa Rhodes Blish, (***) 9 [m]
9th Generation

Personal Details
Born June 8th, 1893
Birthplace Kewanee, Illinois, USA
Baptized No Entry
Baptized at... No Entry
Baptized by... No Entry
Baptized in... No Entry
Occupation(s) Financial Statistician, Economist, advertising salesman
Died June 23rd, 1948, aged about 55 years
Died at... Richmond, Virginia, USA
Cause of Death No Entry
Burial Place Old Cemetery, Kewanee, Illinois, USA
Disposition cremation

Parents
Father [1037]James Knox Blish, (***) 8
Mother [1037_sb]Amy Mason (Rhodes) Blish 8

Spouses, Mates & Children
Wife #1
[1324_sa] - Dorothea (Schneewind) Blish 9

Married by: Rev. Dr. Fortescue Gairdner, Episcopalian
Married at: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Children by this spouse:
I [1380I]+ James Benjamin Blish, B.Sc., Ed. (***) 10 b. May 23rd, 1921 c. August
Wife #2
[1324_sb] - Katharine (Hosking) Blish 9

Married by: No Entry
Married at: New York City, NY, USA

Children by this spouse:
No Records of Children
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Immediate Family Tree
Gen. 9 Gen. 8 Gen. 7 Gen. 6 Gen. 5
Asa Rhodes Blish, (***)James Knox Blish, (***)Charles Cheney Blish, (***)Colonel Sylvester Blish, (***)Deacon Thomas Blish, (***)
Prudence (Hubbard) Blish
Rhoda (Cheney) BlishTimothy Cheney
Rhoda (Skinner) Cheney
Elizabeth Potter (Bonar) BlishMatthew Bonar? Bonar
? (?) Bonar
Catharine (Cosner) Bonar? Cosner
? (?) Cosner
Amy Mason (Rhodes) BlishAlbert Rhodes? RhodesNo Entry
No Entry
? (?) RhodesNo Entry
No Entry
Ann Elizabeth (Read) Rhodes? ReadNo Entry
No Entry
? (?) ReadNo Entry
No Entry

Personalized History Timeline, 1893 to 1948
1837-1901:
Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 8
1881-1896:
5th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 3
1893-1897:
US Financial panic, depression from age 0 to age 4
1893:
Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 0
1893:
Movies at age 0
1893:
New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 0
1893-1896:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 0 to age 3
1894-1895:
Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 1 to age 2
1894:
Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 1
1896:
Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 3
1896:
Utah enters the union - 45th at age 3
1897-1901:
William McKinley president of US from age 4 to age 8
1898:
Spanish American 1-year war at age 5
1899-1923:
6th Cholera pandemic from age 6 to age 30
1899-1902:
Boer war from age 6 to age 9
1900:
Hawaii organized as a territory at age 7
1900:
Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 7
1900:
Boxer rebellion in China at age 7
1901-1910:
Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 8 to age 17
1901:
Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 8
1901:
Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 8
1901-1908:
Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 8 to age 15
1901:
Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 8
1901:
First British submarine launched at age 8
1901:
Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 8
1901:
US President William McKinley assassinated at age 8
1903:
Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 10
1903:
Airplane at age 10
1904-1905:
Russian-Japanese war from age 11 to age 12
1904:
Radar at age 11
1907:
Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 14
1907:
Plastic at age 14
1908:
Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 15
1909-1912:
William Howard Taft president of US from age 16 to age 19
1909:
North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 16
1909:
Union of South Africa formed at age 16
1910:
Halley's Comet at age 17
1910:
Japan annexes Korea at age 17
1910-1936:
Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 17 to age 43
1911:
South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 18
1912:
Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 19
1912:
New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 19
1912:
Alaska organized as a territory at age 19
1912:
Titanic sinks at age 19
1913-1920:
Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 20 to age 27
1914:
The Bra at age 21
1914-1919:
World War I from age 21 to age 26
1915:
Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 22
1916:
Sonar at age 23
1916:
Irish Easter Rebellion at age 23
1917:
Russian revolution at age 24
1917:
US enters WWI at age 24
1918-1933:
Prohibition from age 25 to age 40
1918-1920:
Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 25 to age 27
1919:
Shortwave Radio at age 26
1919:
League of Nations instantiated at age 26
1920-1929:
Roaring 20's from age 27 to age 36
1920:
Women receive right to vote in USA at age 27
1920:
Palestine established at age 27
1921-1924:
Warren G Harding president of US from age 28 to age 31
1922:
Insulin made available to diabetics at age 29
1925:
Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 32
1925-1928:
Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 32 to age 35
1926:
Sound in Movies at age 33
1927:
1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 34
1927:
Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 34
1928:
Television at age 35
1928:
Video Recordings at age 35
1928:
Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 35
1928:
Geiger Counter at age 35
1929-1932:
Herbert Hoover president of US from age 36 to age 39
1929:
Stock Market Crash at age 36
1929-1939:
Great Depression from age 36 to age 46
1930:
Pluto Discovered at age 37
1931-1933:
Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 38 to age 40
1933:
Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 40
1933:
Radio Astronomy at age 40
1933-1945:
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 40 to age 52
1933:
Soviet communist party purge at age 40
1934:
Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 41
1935:
Dustbowl at age 42
1935-1936:
Abyssinian war from age 42 to age 43
1936-1952:
Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 43 until after line end
1936:
Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 43
1936:
Helicopter at age 43
1936:
Spanish Civil War at age 43
1937-1945:
Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 44 to age 52
1937:
Nylon (by DuPont) at age 44
1938:
Germany annexes Austria at age 45
1939-1945:
World War II from age 46 to age 52
1939:
Digital Computer at age 46
1939:
Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 46
1940:
Color Television at age 47
1940:
1st black general in US army at age 47
1941-1945:
Manhattan Project from age 48 to age 52
1942:
Nuclear Reactor at age 49
1942:
Magnetic Recording Tape at age 49
1945:
US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 52
1945-1952:
Harry S Truman president of US from age 52 until after line end
1945:
Hypertext at age 52
1945:
United Nations formed at age 52
1946-1989:
The Cold War from age 53 until after line end
1946:
The Bikini at age 53
1947:
India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 54
1947:
Transistor at age 54
1947:
UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 54
1948:
NATO formed at age 55
1948:
Israel inaugurated as state at age 55
1948:
33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 55
1948:
Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 55

Additional Information
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