John Bos II Part 3 1870s
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1870
The family was still in the Netherlands.
In Other News for 1870
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 General (Pearson, 2017).
- John D. Rockefeller
- John D. Rockefeller forms the Standard Oil of Ohio company. By 1890, Standard Oil controlled 88% of the refined oil flows in the United States. John D. Rockefeller was a founder, chairman and major shareholder, and the company made him the richest man in modern history (Pearson, 2017).
- British Colombia Becomes Part of Canada
- British Colombia becomes part of Canada. On having been seen by Captain Cook in his look for the northwest passage, the area was mostly commonly used by fur traders. Finally recognized as an imperial territory by Britain it was named British Colombia in1858 , and became part of Canada in 1871 (Pearson, 2017).
- Congress Passes the 1871 Indian Appropriation Act
- This act ended the practice of the US government viewing Native American tribes, and lands as separate countries
- Great Chicago Fire
- The Great Chicago Fire started on Sunday, October 8, and burned for three days before it finally burned itself out Tuesday, October 10, 1871. It killed hundreds and destroyed about 2,000 acres in the central business district, including hotels, department stores, Chicago's City Hall, the opera house and theaters, churches and printing plants, in other areas thousands of homes were destroyed leaving 90,000 homeless. Supposedly it started by a cow kicking over a lantern in a barn owned by Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, or Daniel "Pegleg" Sullivan, igniting some hay in the barn while trying to steal some milk, or Louis M. Cohn may have started the fire during a craps game (Pearson, 2017).
- Third Force Act Also Known as the "Ku Klux Act" Passed
- Congress authorizes President Ulysses S Grant to declare martial law, impose heavy penalties against terrorist organizations, and use military force to suppress the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) (Pearson, 2017).
In Other News for 1872
- Mary Celeste Mystery
- Crew from the Dei Gratia, a small British brig, spot the Mary Celeste, a brigantine merchant ship at full sail near the Azores Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. The ship was seaworthy, its stores and supplies were untouched, the personal belongings of passengers and crew were still in place, including valuables but not a soul was on board (Pearson, 2017).
- Montgomery Ward Begins First Mail Order Catalog
- Montgomery Ward begins distributing a dry goods mail-order Catalog to rural customers offering wide selection of items unavailable to them locally. By 1883 , the catalog, which became popularly known as the "Wish Book", had grown to 240 pages and 10,000 items (Pearson, 2017).
- Yellowstone National Park
- Partly in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, the Yellowstone National Park was appointed the United States' first national park on March 1st, 1872. It covers more than three and a half thousand square miles of plateaus, mountains and valleys. The park's fossils, lava flows, volcanic remains, forests and other mountainous features such as its hot springs and geysers (like Old Faithful) have made it a national treasure (Pearson, 2017).
In Other News for 1873
- Blue Jeans
- Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patent "Blue Jeans", using heavy duty cotton cloth and copper rivets they produce trousers that are virtually indestructible aimed at Miners, Farmers, Mechanics and cattle raisers. They were called originally "Copper Riveted Overalls" (Pearson, 2017).
1874
1874 age 19
death of mother
His mother Aafjhe passed away in 1874 at the age of 69
She was born in 1805 in Langedijk, North Holland. She was 10 years old when the Netherlands was transfered to the United Kingdom in 1815, then she was faced with a new national identity when this area became part of the German Confederation. She was 50 years old when John/Johannes Bos was born. She probably had several other kids, I don't have that information right now. If you know anything, let me know. Use the contact form on the right.
By the way, the town of Langedijk, as far as I can determine, is pronounced LAYN-je-dizhk (Pronouncekiwi, n.d.). How do you pronounce her name? I couldn't find a source for that one, sorry. You are on your own.
In other News for 1874
She was born in 1805 in Langedijk, North Holland. She was 10 years old when the Netherlands was transfered to the United Kingdom in 1815, then she was faced with a new national identity when this area became part of the German Confederation. She was 50 years old when John/Johannes Bos was born. She probably had several other kids, I don't have that information right now. If you know anything, let me know. Use the contact form on the right.
By the way, the town of Langedijk, as far as I can determine, is pronounced LAYN-je-dizhk (Pronouncekiwi, n.d.). How do you pronounce her name? I couldn't find a source for that one, sorry. You are on your own.
In other News for 1874
- First Commercial Barbed Wire
- Joseph F. Glidden of DeKalb Illinois, received a patent for modern barbed wire in 1874 after he made his own modifications to previous versions (Pearson, 2017).
- Republican Elephant
- The Republican elephant started when a political cartoonist (Thomas Nast) who did not think President Ulysses S Grant should run for a third term had a cartoon published in Harper's Weekly in 1874 depicting the Republican Party as a stampeding Elephant (Pearson, 2017).
- First Kentucky Derby
- On May 17, 1875, in front of an estimated crowd of 10,000 people, a field of 15 three-year-old horses contested the First Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky (Pearson, 2017).
1876
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12 November 1876
1876 age 21, marriage
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Schermer is in North Holland. According to Wikipedia, it is a former municipality, and since 2015 it is a part of Alkmaar. It was covered in peat, and there was a small river by the same name flowing through it, which developed into an inland lake because of peat digging and by storm floods. The Schermer municipality consisted of about six cities, towns or villages (Wikipedia Schermer, 2017). This wiki site shows how to pronounce the municipality, gives a topographical map, and some other interesting things about this area.
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In Other News for 1876
- Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent
- for his revolutionary new invention the telephone. Patent 174,465 was issued to Alexander Graham Bell by the US Patent Office. Bell's patent covered "the method of, and apparatus for, transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically ... by causing electrical undulations, similar in form to the vibrations of the air accompanying the said vocal or other sound" (Pearson, 2017).
- Great Sioux War of 1876-1877
- The Great Sioux War/Black Hills War was a series of battles and negotiations in the Montana Territory and Dakota Territory between the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne, and the United States between 1876 and 1877. The Indian Chiefs included Crazy Horse (Oglala Lakota Tribe), Sitting Bull (Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux), Little Wolf (Cheyenne) and Dull Knife (Cheyenne). The (Pearson, 2017).
- Practical Internal Combustion Engine
- Nikolaus August Otto builds the first practical four-stroke cycle Internal Combustion Engine. Like all inventions before and since each inventor builds on knowledge gained from earlier inventions or multiple inventors working far apart who come up with similar inventions, so often it depends on the researcher and research material available to make the decision of who and when (Pearson, 2017).
- Little Bighorn/Custer's Last Stand
- The Battle of the Little Bighorn took place a week after General Crook's retreat from Rosebud Creek, when the Sioux, Cheyenne, Lakota, Arapaho and others fell on George Custer's 7th Cavalry on June 25th . The Indians, whose amalgamated tepees could show that there were about two thousand braves, attacked Custer's squadrons at Little Bighorn. Reno and Benteen's parts of the 7th suffered heavily, but were not wiped out. The Indians fled on the arrival of Terry and Gibbons' more numerous soldiers, but have retained their name for the Bighorn's slopes, " which is 'the greasy grass'. There is some debate on where exactly the 'last stand' took place, with Custer's body not actually having been found around his men. The greasy grass might have been in Wyoming and not Montana (Pearson, 2017).
1877
10 July 1877 age 22, birth of daughter
His daughter Effie F. Bos was born 10 July 1877 in Grootschermer, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Grootschermer, [ed. note -- don't confuse the town with the Marvel Comics character] is a village in North Holland, is also part of the municipality of Alkmaar. In 2001, the town had a whopping 205 inhabitants. The entire surrounding area includes 540 people (Wikipedia Grootschermer, 2018).
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In Other News for 1877
- The "Molly Maguires"
- Ten members of the Irish Miners Group The "Molly Maguires" were hanged for murder, the hangings brought about an end to the group as members now feared for their lives and loved ones lives. "Molly Maguires" were a group of Irish anthracite miners who were fighting for better working and living conditions in the coal fields of Pennsylvania, and were considered militant union activists but to understand the whole story my advice is look up "Molly Maguires" on your favorite search engine to gain a better perspective of the whole story (Pearson, 2017).
- The Phonograph
- Thomas Alva Edison announced his invention of the first phonograph, a device for recording and replaying sound (Pearson, 2018).
- Sitting Bull
- In January, Crazy Horse had fought Brigadier General Miles at the Battle of Wolf Mountain in what was to become Montana. Mills had remained in the field over winter in order to avenge Custer. In May, Sitting Bull had taken his people into Canada as a sanctuary against an American reprisal on Little Bighorn, but the Canadians would provide the necessities that the American reservations would offer. He was forced to surrender in 1881 with a tribe that was becoming handicapped by the lack of food and clothing (Pearson, 2018).
- Queen Victoria's Appointment as Empress of India
- Queen Victoria's appointment as Empress of India was made on India having been formally made into part of the British Empire. There is some debate on whether this was made as a comparison to the Russian and German imperial titles, or that it would allow a degree of hierarchy to permeate the British rule of the Indian nobles (Pearson, 2017).
1877
In Other News for 1877- Not a single new
1879
In Other News for 1879
- First Cash Register
- James Ritty and John Ritty patent the first cash register in Dayton Ohio as "Ritty's Incorruptible Cashier", it was later sold and became "The National Cash Register Company" NCR (Pearson, 2018).
- First Woolworth's 5 cents Store Opened
- Frank Winfield Woolworth opens the Great 5 Cents Store in Utica, New York. Pledging to sell "nothing" that cost more than a nickel expanding over the next 50 years to 1000 stores, but due to changes in the retail market the last Woolworth's shop in the United States was closed down on July 17th , 1997 (Pearson, 2018).
- Incandescent Light Bulb
- Thomas Edison invented a commercially practical incandescent light. Edison filed his first patent application for "Improvement In Electric Lights" on October 14, 1878 (U.S. Patent 0,214,636). The first successful test was on October 22, 1879, and lasted 13.5 hours. Historians list 22 inventors of incandescent lamps prior to Thomas Edison but Edison's, although not first light bulb, is considered to be the first practical incandescent lamp (Pearson, 2018).
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Resources 1870s
Newspapers.com. (1876, April 6). The Cincinnati Daily Star, Cincinnati Ohio. Retrieved from Newspapers.com: Newspapers.com
OurTimelines.com. (2018). TimeLines. (Timelines courtesy of www.ourtimelines.com. Timeline formatting and technology copyright © 2000-2018 ourtimelines.com, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED under the Pan-American Conventions.) Retrieved from OurTimeLines.com: http://ourtimelines.com/
Pearson, S. (2017). 1880 The People History. Retrieved December 30, 2016, from 1880 to 1889 Important News, Significant Events, Key Technology: http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1880to1889.html
OurTimelines.com. (2018). TimeLines. (Timelines courtesy of www.ourtimelines.com. Timeline formatting and technology copyright © 2000-2018 ourtimelines.com, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED under the Pan-American Conventions.) Retrieved from OurTimeLines.com: http://ourtimelines.com/
Pearson, S. (2017). 1880 The People History. Retrieved December 30, 2016, from 1880 to 1889 Important News, Significant Events, Key Technology: http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1880to1889.html
Pronouncekiwi. (n.d.). Pronouncekiwi. Retrieved from How To Pronounce Langedijk: http://www.pronouncekiwi.com/Langedijk
Wikipedia Grootschermer. (2018, January 30). Grootschermer. Retrieved from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grootschermer
Wikipedia Koedijk. (2019, February). Koedijk. Retrieved from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koedijk
Wikipedia Schermer. (2017, November 12). Schermer. Retrieved from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schermer
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