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Nicholas Willard Bos Part 3

1920 Census Swantown WA
1926 KDKA first American Radio Station
1929 inauguration Herbert Hoover

1920 age 28

Nicholas and Grace Westerdyke Bos 1920 Census
Swantown, Island, WA

The road is not named, but Nicholas and his wife Grace (red arrow) are age 26 and 22, have no children yet, and are renting their farm.  I can't find who they rented it from.  It would also be nice to have a photo of that farm.  Nicholas' nephew John and Mary Bos and their son John Wayne also live nearby (blue arrow), on the farm they own.



Residence -- Swantown, Island, Washington

Swantown Washington, big picture
from Google Maps 2018


Swantown Satellite View
from Google Maps 2018

The above two images show Swantown, Island County WA both within the state of Washington, and a bird's eye view of the area, where we can see it is, indeed, farmland.  Interesting to note, is the beach, called "Hakuna Matata Beach."  Now where did THAT come from, do you think?


1921 - 1925, age 29 - 33

Oak Harbor, Island County WA, Google Maps 2018

You can see, on this google satellite map, that Oak Harbor is close to Swantown, and is where his son Gordon Nicholas Bos was born on the 28th November 1921.  Son Glen Lyle Bos was born in the same place when Nicholas was 31 years of age, 3 July 1924.  Four months later, his father John died at the age of 69 in the same town.

Later his mother Wilhelmina Bos died aged 76, on 24 September 1925, again at Oak Harbour Washington.


1926 age 34-35

Historical Insight -- KDKA Becomes First American Radio Station


The first commercially broadcast radio station in the United States, 
station KDKA in Pittsburgh, pioneered radio as a news and entertainment medium.Credit: Getty Images

1929 age 36

Historical Insight -- Inauguration of Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover had never held an elected political office 
before he became president of the United States in March 1929.Credit: Library of Congressfrom Ancestry.com Historical Insight

Nicholas Willard Bos and his wife Grace probably listened to Herbert Hoover’s inauguration on the radio in March 1929. -- from Ancestry.com Historical Insight The Inauguration of Herbert Hoover



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