John Bos II Part 3 1870s John Bos II mini-pedigree from Ancestry.com 1870 The family was still in the Netherlands. In Other News for 1870 Can Opener 60 years after the Tin Can is invented, William Lions of Connecticut invents an efficient can opener. Congress Adopts the Fifteenth Amendment The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (i.e., slavery). It was ratified on February 3rd , 1870. What is interesting is no mention was made of gender and it took another 50 years to guarantee women's right to vote with the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 (Pearson, 2017). Congress Creates the US Department of Justice The US Department of Justice is responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice headed by the Attorney Ge
From the Netherlands to Washington State, may I present to you the BOS family! The research, the sources and my thought process as I write about each person.