1910 -- Census Oak Harbor WA
1911 -- Historical Insight Circus 1917 -- historical Insight WWI Registering for Draft WWI Nicholas Registration WWI 1917 -- married Grace Westerdyke 1919 Peace Paris Conference 1910 age 18
The census was done 21 April 1910. This is sheet 3B, and we start by finding Nicholas on line 73 (red arrow), living with his parents John and Wilhelmina Bos, and two older siblings, Pete and Minnie. Interesting to note a John W. Bos, his wife Mary and their son John Wayne Bos, who is about a year old. This family has to be related to our Bos family ... hold on a second while I research.
Still searching ... loading ... and I found that relationship. John Wayne Bos' father, John M. Bos is brother to our Nicholas Willard Bos. Therefore, although they are about the same age, Nicholas is the uncle to John Wayne Bos. HAH! And you thought I couldn't figure it out! I wanted to add some interesting photographs of this area in 1910, but couldn't find anything. So, we just have to suffer with boring print. 1911 -- Historical Insight -- Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers Circus
The Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers Circus exemplified the "greatest show on earth" at the turn of the 19th century. Adam Forepaugh, an innovative circus proprietor until his death, was the first to incorporate a Wild West show and have two big top tents for his circus. James A. Bailey, of Barnum and Failey fame, purchaed the Forepaugh circus before the owner's death and then partnered with the Sells Brothers during the 1890s, creating the largest circus in America. People all over the country were awed by the grand show, which boasted a largely foreign cast and exciting acts including dancing elephants, trained sea lions, clowns, cyclists, aerialists, and more. Performing in places as famous as Madison Square Garden, the show and its exotic features were wildly popular until it performed its last tour in 1911. -- from Ancestry.com Historical Insight Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers Circus. 1917 age 24Historical Insight -- America Enters World War I
Historical Insight -- Registering for the Draft in World War I
1917 Nicholas Bos registered for the Draft in World War I
1917 Marriage to Grace M. Westerdyke, Coupeville, Island, Washington
This is the original marriage certificate, the one I like best. Why? Because Nicholas filled out his portion on the left in his own handwriting, and Grace filled out her portion on the right. They both signed the certificate, giving us a sample of their handwriting. This document also becomes secondary proof for Nicholas' birth year, since he is 24 years old, as well as for Grace and the names of each set of parents and places of birth. They were married by a Methodist Episcopal clergy, but I cannot decipher his name. Take a look at the witnesses, Cora Wolfsen and C.S. Wolfsen. Cora is actually Nicholas' sister, and her husband.
This format is a transcript of the original document. The handwriting is exactly the same on each entry. The date it is recorded is 15 September 1917. But look at that date ... the form came pre-printed with the date 189_ but the clerk crossed it out and wrote in the entire date. So, this form is about 20 years old, and they still use the old forms. Also, one problem with transcriptions is evidenced on this document. The date of the wedding is mis-written. The license is 29th August, the marriage was 15th of September. Gotta be careful about tertiary sources, you can easily get mislead. 1919 age 26Historical Insight -- 1919 Paris Peace Conference
About two months after fighting ended, the four primary Allied nations came to the negotiating table with different goals for post-World War I Europe when the Paris Peace Conference began on January 18, 1919. France wanted to secure its borders from foreign invasion. Great Britain and Italy were interested in re-establishing a balance of power. And, United States President Woodrow Wilson outlined his own 14 points for peace and wanted to forge an international mediating body called the League of Nations. In his 1920 book about the conference, journalist E. J. Dillon argued that the differing goals doomed the outcome of the negotiations: “The fatal tactical mistake chargeable to the Conference lay in its making the charter of the League of Nations and the treaty of peace with the Central Powers interdependent. … The outcome of this unnatural union will be to damage the cause of stable peace which it was devised to further.” -- Ancestry.com Historical Insight 1919 Peace Paris Conference Resources
Family Search. (2018). Island County, Washington Genealogy. Retrieved from FamilySearch: https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Island_County,_Washington_Genealogy
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1892 -- birth 1897 -- Historical Insight Barnum Brown 1900 -- living Oak Harbor When Nicholas Willard Bos was born on July 8, 1892, in Cowlitz, Washington, his father, John, was 37 and his mother, Willhelmina, was 43. He married Grace M. Westerdyke Bos on August 29, 1917, in Coupeville, Washington. They had three children in 13 years. He died on September 19, 1970, in Mount Vernon, Washington, at the age of 78, and was buried there. -- Ancestry.com Nicholas Willard Bos mini pedigree, Ancestry.com 1892 Birth "Nicholas Willard Bos was born on 8 July 1892 in Cowlitz Washington to Wilhelmina Usi Bos age 43 and John Bos age 37." I am not able to find any birth record for this man. I have gone through Island County records found on Ancestry and Family Search, but there is no record of his birth. The sources available to confirm this date for his birth is his death record, the censuses, the draft registration cards for both WWI and WWII, the marriage records.
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