Cornelius
Van Ness
[uncertain]
Blish
Born in Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont
Ancestors 
Son of Harvey Blish
and Phebe (Worden) Blish
Brother of
Harvey Frederick Blish, Mary Jane Blish, Alfred Day Blish, Alvira Angel Blish, George Washington Blish, Caroline Melissa (Blish) Lane, Ellen Marie (Blish) Phillips, Louisa (Blish) Case and Julia Anna (Blish) Norton
Husband of
Jane (Kingsley) Blish
— married
1849 in Racine, Wisconsin
Descendants 
Father of
Phebe Jane (Blish) Norton, James Edward Blish, David Blish, John Blish and Arthur George Blish
Died
at age 60
in Summit, Juneau County, Wisconsin
Profile last modified
| Created 19 Mar 2014
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Biography
Married Jane Kingsley (1835-1910) on 26 August 1849 in Racine, Wisconsin.
The Cornelius Blish family resided in the SW corner of Summit Township. Source: Wisconsin State Atlas 1870, County Histories, page 217 ... "Elias Kingsley, C. Blish and Alex. Noble, are due the credit of being the first settlers in the town of Summit, they dating their residence in the county (Juneau) from 1852. (Son, Charles Sumner Blish died in Brown County, South Dakota on 28 May 1949)"...
Children of Cornelius and Jane:
Phebe Jane Blish Norton 1853–1943
Edward Blish 1854–1935
Charles Sumner Blish 1856–1949
Rhoda Ellen Blish Reinecke 1859–1922
Dave M. Blish 1861–1950
Harriet Belle Blish Jenewein 1865–1890
John Blish 1866–1960
Alice E Blish 1868–1879
Arthur George Blish 1870–1939
Maurice Blish 1872–1946
Carrie Blish 1876–1953
Lyman L. Blish 1879–1883
Sources
- Find A Grave: Memorial #87424038 Cornelius Van Ness Blish
- Blish Genealogy, Reedsburg Herald (Reedsburg, Wisconsin)
- Wisconsin Deaths, 1820-1907,
- Wisconsin Marriages, pre-1907, 1850
- 1860 census (Summit, Juneau, Wisconsin)
- 1870 census (Summit, Juneau, Wisconsin)
- 1880 census (Summit, Juneau, Wisconsin)
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Cornelius by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Cornelius:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Cornelius by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Cornelius:
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~3.12%
~6.25%
Lynn (Williams) Winter 
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A760507 [compare], Ancestry member ucdxpixie1
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~0.78%
Charlene (Worden) Eastman :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch WK2825096 [compare], Ancestry member eastmadc
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