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Martha Ery (Brown) Blish 8 [f]
8th Generation

Personal Details
Born May 3rd, 1877 No Image On File
Birthplace Westly, Rhode Island, USA
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Parents
Father [879saf]Fred H. Brown 7 No Image On File
Mother [879sam]Sarah Francis (Wheeler) Brown 7 No Image On File

Spouses, Mates & Children
Husband #1
[879] - Ernest Luverne Blish 8

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Married at: Norwich, Connecticut, USA

Children by this spouse:
I [1347] Elizabeth Bell Blish 9 b. July 11th, 1900 c. October No Image On File
II [1348] Edna Irian Blish 9 b. February 3rd, 1903 c. May No Image On File
III [1349] Helen Inez Blish 9 b. January 31st, 1904 c. April No Image On File
IV [1349bb] Earnest Francis Blish 9 b. May 19th, 1916 c. August No Image On File
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Personalized History Timeline, 1877 to 1977
1837-1901:
Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 24
1863-1879:
4th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 2
1868-1878:
War between Cuba and Spain from before birth until age 1
1873-1878:
Depression, banks fail from before birth until age 1
1877-1880:
Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 0 to age 3
1877:
Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 0
1878:
1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 1
1879:
Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 2
1879:
Zulu war at age 2
1881:
President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 4
1881-1885:
Chester Arthur president of US from age 4 to age 8
1881:
James A Garfield president of US at age 4
1881-1896:
5th Cholera pandemic from age 4 to age 19
1884:
Motorcycle at age 7
1884:
1st subway at age 7
1885:
Automobile at age 8
1885-1888:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 8 to age 11
1886:
Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 9
1887:
X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 10
1888:
Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 11
1888:
70...77 rpm musical records at age 11
1889:
South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 12
1889:
Holerith invents the punch card at age 12
1889:
Montana enters the union - 41st at age 12
1889:
North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 12
1889-1892:
Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 12 to age 15
1889:
Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 12
1890:
Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 13
1890:
Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 13
1890:
Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 13
1890:
Battle of Wounded Knee at age 13
1891:
Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 14
1893-1896:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 16 to age 19
1893:
Movies at age 16
1893:
Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 16
1893:
New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 16
1893-1897:
US Financial panic, depression from age 16 to age 20
1894-1895:
Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 17 to age 18
1894:
Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 17
1896:
Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 19
1896:
Utah enters the union - 45th at age 19
1897-1901:
William McKinley president of US from age 20 to age 24
1898:
Spanish American 1-year war at age 21
1899-1902:
Boer war from age 22 to age 25
1899-1923:
6th Cholera pandemic from age 22 to age 46
1900:
Boxer rebellion in China at age 23
1900:
Hawaii organized as a territory at age 23
1900:
Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 23
1901:
First British submarine launched at age 24
1901:
Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 24
1901-1910:
Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 24 to age 33
1901:
Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 24
1901:
US President William McKinley assassinated at age 24
1901:
Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 24
1901:
Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 24
1901-1908:
Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 24 to age 31
1903:
Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 26
1903:
Airplane at age 26
1904-1905:
Russian-Japanese war from age 27 to age 28
1904:
Radar at age 27
1907:
Plastic at age 30
1907:
Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 30
1908:
Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 31
1909:
North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 32
1909:
Union of South Africa formed at age 32
1909-1912:
William Howard Taft president of US from age 32 to age 35
1910:
Halley's Comet at age 33
1910-1936:
Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 33 to age 59
1910:
Japan annexes Korea at age 33
1911:
South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 34
1912:
Titanic sinks at age 35
1912:
Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 35
1912:
New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 35
1912:
Alaska organized as a territory at age 35
1913-1920:
Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 36 to age 43
1914:
The Bra at age 37
1914-1919:
World War I from age 37 to age 42
1915:
Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 38
1916:
Sonar at age 39
1916:
Irish Easter Rebellion at age 39
1917:
Russian revolution at age 40
1917:
US enters WWI at age 40
1918-1933:
Prohibition from age 41 to age 56
1918-1920:
Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 41 to age 43
1919:
Shortwave Radio at age 42
1919:
League of Nations instantiated at age 42
1920-1929:
Roaring 20's from age 43 to age 52
1920:
Palestine established at age 43
1920:
Women receive right to vote in USA at age 43
1921-1924:
Warren G Harding president of US from age 44 to age 47
1922:
Insulin made available to diabetics at age 45
1925-1928:
Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 48 to age 51
1925:
Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 48
1926:
Sound in Movies at age 49
1927:
1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 50
1927:
Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 50
1928:
Television at age 51
1928:
Geiger Counter at age 51
1928:
Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 51
1928:
Video Recordings at age 51
1929:
Stock Market Crash at age 52
1929-1939:
Great Depression from age 52 to age 62
1929-1932:
Herbert Hoover president of US from age 52 to age 55
1930:
Pluto Discovered at age 53
1931-1933:
Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 54 to age 56
1933:
Soviet communist party purge at age 56
1933-1945:
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 56 to age 68
1933:
Radio Astronomy at age 56
1933:
Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 56
1934:
Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 57
1935-1936:
Abyssinian war from age 58 to age 59
1935:
Dustbowl at age 58
1936:
Spanish Civil War at age 59
1936:
Helicopter at age 59
1936:
Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 59
1936-1952:
Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 59 to age 75
1937:
Nylon (by DuPont) at age 60
1937-1945:
Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 60 to age 68
1938:
Germany annexes Austria at age 61
1939:
Digital Computer at age 62
1939:
Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 62
1939-1945:
World War II from age 62 to age 68
1940:
1st black general in US army at age 63
1940:
Color Television at age 63
1941-1945:
Manhattan Project from age 64 to age 68
1942:
Magnetic Recording Tape at age 65
1942:
Nuclear Reactor at age 65
1945:
Hypertext at age 68
1945:
United Nations formed at age 68
1945:
US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 68
1945-1952:
Harry S Truman president of US from age 68 to age 75
1946:
The Bikini at age 69
1946-1989:
The Cold War from age 69 until after line end
1947:
Transistor at age 70
1947:
UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 70
1947:
India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 70
1948:
Israel inaugurated as state at age 71
1948:
Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 71
1948:
33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 71
1948:
NATO formed at age 71
1949:
Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 72
1949:
45 rpm musical recordings at age 72
1949:
Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 72
1950:
World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 73
1950-1953:
Korean War from age 73 to age 76
1950:
Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 73
1950-1954:
McCarthyism from age 73 to age 77
1951:
Electricity from Atomic Power at age 74
1952-2050:
Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 75 until after line end
1952:
1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 75
1953-1960:
Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 76 to age 83
1954:
Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 77
1955:
Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 78
1955:
Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 78
1955:
Warsaw pact formed at age 78
1955:
Invention of Velcro at age 78
1956:
Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 79
1957:
Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 80
1958:
Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 81
1958:
Integrated Circuit at age 81
1958:
US space agency (NASA) established at age 81
1958:
FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 81
1959:
Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 82
1959:
1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 82
1959:
Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 82
1960:
World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 83
1960:
Laser at age 83
1960:
1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 83
1960:
Pantyhose at age 83
1961:
1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 84
1961-1970:
7th Cholera pandemic from age 84 to age 93
1961:
First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 84
1961-1963:
John F Kennedy president of US from age 84 to age 86
1962:
Cuban missile crisis at age 85
1962-1965:
Vatican II from age 85 to age 88
1963:
1st artificial heart at age 86
1963:
Compact Cassette Recordings at age 86
1963:
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 86
1963-1968:
Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 86 to age 91
1964-1975:
Vietnam War from age 87 to age 98
1964:
US civil rights bill at age 87
1965:
Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 88
1965:
1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 88
1966:
8-track tape players at age 89
1966:
1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 89
1967:
1st human heart transplant at age 90
1967:
Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 90
1967-1970:
Nigerian civil war from age 90 to age 93
1967:
Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 90
1967:
Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 90
1968:
Martin Luther King assassinated at age 91
1968:
Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 91
1969-1974:
Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 92 to age 97
1969:
Woodstock Music Festival at age 92
1969:
Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 92
1970:
Microprocessor at age 93
1970:
Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 93
1971:
Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 94
1971:
Pakistani civil war at age 94
1973:
October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 96
1973:
The Internet at age 96
1974-1976:
Gerald Ford president of US from age 97 to age 99
1974:
Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 97
1975:
Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 98
1975:
Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 98
1975:
The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 98
1976:
Television begins satellite delivery at age 99
1976:
American Bicentennial at age 99
1976:
Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 99
1976:
VHS Video Recordings at age 99
1977:
Neutron bomb at age 100
1977-1980:
James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 100 until after line end

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