John Bos II Part 5 1890s
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| John Bos II mini-pedigree from Ancestry.com |
1890
1890s The Federal Census was taken in 1890, but this particular one is almost all destroyed by a fire. Very sad affair. I have searched the South Dakota State censuses, and the Washington Censuses, but I just cannot find any enumeration list for this family earlier than 1900!
In Other News for 1890:
- Battle of Wounded Knee happens (OurTimelines.com, 2018).
- Bismarck Resigns
- He had achieved a few things but in 1890 Otto von Bismarck was forced to resign by Wilhelm II. His policies for social security were derided by his competitors, and his conservatism had started to wain on his being the leading statesman of Europe. It is interesting that Adolf Hitler was so enamored by the Prussian (Pearson, 2018).
- Idaho becomes the 43rd state (OurTimelines.com, 2018).
- Oklahoma organizes as a territory, (OurTimelines.com, 2018).
- Wyoming is the 44th state (OurTimelines.com, 2018).
1891
5 May 1891
In other news for 1891
- Carnegie Hall
- Originally called Music Hall, Carnegie Hall located at 881 Seventh Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City opens. Carnegie Hall is named after Andrew Carnegie, who paid for its construction. Its main purpose was for use as a performance venue for classical music (Pearson, 2018).
- Mormon prophesy of coming of the Lord by 1891 is unfulfilled (OurTimelines.com, 2018).
1892
29 October 1896 Naturalization Petition
Johannes Bos petitions the clerk of the District Court of Mix County, Territory of Dakota on the 23rd of May 1882, and he is sworn that he has lived in the United States for five years, and within the state of Washington for at least one year; has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same on 29th October 1896. At this time he declares that he renounces allegiance and fidelity to every foreign Prince, Potentate, State and Sovereignty whatsoever, and particularly to Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands whereof I was before a subject.
His signature (bonus points) on this document covers his wife and his children who were born in Holland.
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| Johannes Bos Naturalization Petition Part 1 |
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| Johannes Bos Naturalization Petition Part 2 |
8 July 1892
Birth of son Nicholas
His son Nicholas Willard was born on 8 July 1892 in Cowlitz, Washington. John was 37 years old.Nicholas was the eighth and last child born to John and Minnie. He married Grace Westerdyke, and had six children of his own. It looks like he fought in World War II, as there is a Draft Card. You can view his Find a Grave memorial here.
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| https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118083661 |
In Other News for 1892
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Arthur Conan Doyle had submitted the first of six Sherlock Holmes stories to the Strand Magazine in April of 1891. These were followed by 1892's book of the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Strand's stories (which had begun with A Scandal in Bohemia) were followed by the Strand's request for further cases to be published, and he provided another six (with his mother's admonishment for considering Holmes' demise). The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes contained all twelve stories (Pearson, 2018).
- Ellis Island Opens
- The first Ellis Island Immigration Station was officially opened. That first day, three large ships were waiting to land, and 700 immigrants passed through Ellis Island. In the first year, nearly 450,000 immigrants passed through the Island. The first to be processed was Annie Moore, a 15-year-old girl from Cork, Ireland on January 1st 1892 (Pearson, 2018).
1893
Grover Cleveland elected (again) as the 24th President of the United States.
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| 1893 Grover Cleveland Portrait (Wikipedia -- Cleveland 2018) |
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| 1893 Grover Cleveland, 24th President (Wikipedia -- Cleveland 2018) |
Quote: -- "Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people" -- Grover Cleveland (Cleveland, 2018).
In Other News for 1893
- Lizzie Borden
- In the case of the murder of her father Andrew Jackson Borden, and her stepmother, Abby Borden, despite incriminating circumstances but with no murder weapon found and no blood evidence found. A jury in New Bedford, Mass., found Lizzie Borden innocent of the ax murders of her father and stepmother. on June 20th
- The case was is best remembered by the popular jump-rope rhyme:
- Lizzie Borden took an axe
- And gave her mother forty whacks.
- And when she saw what she had done
- She gave her father forty-one (Pearson, 2018).
- Moving Pictures
- Thomas Edison, while not having been able to link sound and motion to his kinetograph and kinetoscope was able to to make a silent movie with them. He had constructed the world's first motion picture stage, which he'd named the 'Black Maria.' The kinetoscopes were able to give an individual depiction of a moving image, and the viewer had to look through a lens (Pearson, 2018).
- New Zealand is the first to grant women the right to vote; (OurTimelines.com).
- Nikola Tesla (Not Marconi) invents Radio (OurTimelines.com).
- United States is in financial panic and depression lasting four years (OurTimelines.com).
- US Marines Remove Quieen Liliuokalani From the Throne of Hawaii
- Lydia Liliuokalani was the only Queen of Hawaii before the islands' annexation to the United States. She had succeeded her brother to the throne in 1891, and wanted to reinstall the autonomy he had given away, and to rescind on the concessions he had made to the Americans, such as their use of Pearl Harbor. She was made to abdicate in January 1893 and the U.S. attendant, Sanford Cole, was supported by a detachment of Marines (Pearson, 2018).
- Coca-Cola First Sold in Bottles
- With Coca-Cola having been trademarked in 1893, the Coca-Cola Company was able to sell its produce in bottles for the first on March 12th, 1894 in Vicksburg, Mississippi (Pearson, 2018).
- The Jungle Book
- The Jungle Book is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling. The tales in the book are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons (Pearson, 2018).
- Pullman Illinois
- The Pullman Strike starts when 3,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a wildcat strike in response to sharp reductions in wages. The town of Pullman including homes, shops, was owned by the Pullman corporation and the cost of rents and goods were not decreased. The main railway unions showed strong support for the Pullman workers and called for a boycott of Pullman cars, and 125,000 workers on twenty-nine railroads had quit work rather than handle Pullman cars. The strike was broken up by United States Marshals and some 12,000 United States Army troops, sent in by President Grover Cleveland on the premise that the strike interfered with the delivery of U.S. Mail and represented a threat to public safety. The arrival of the military and subsequent deaths of workers led to further outbreaks of violence. During the course of the strike, 13 strikers were killed and 57 were wounded.
- A national commission formed to study causes of the 1894 strike found Pullman's paternalism partly to blame and Pullman's company town to be "un-American". In 1898, the Illinois Supreme Court forced the Pullman Company to divest ownership in the town, which was annexed to Chicago (Pearson, 2018).
In other news for 1895
- First Race of Gas Powered Cars
- Six motor cars left Chicago's Jackson Park for a 54 mile race to Evanston, Illinois and back on Thanksgiving Day 1895 racing for a 1st prize of $2,000 provided by the Chicago Times-Herald Newspaper. Car Number 5 driven by inventor Frank Duryea, won the race in just over 10 hours at an average speed of 7.3 mph (Pearson, 2018).
- The Radio or "Telegraphy without Wires"
- Italian Born Inventor Guglielmo Marconi uses radio waves to create a system of "wireless telegraphy" to transmit signals a distance of approximately 1.5 kilometers in Pontecchio, Italy. He found no interest or backers and moved to England. Over the next few years having found financial backing he improved his equipment and in 1901 he sent a signal across the Atlantic from Poldu in Cornwall to St John's Newfoundland in Canada (Pearson, 2018).
- Second Jungle Book
- More famously known for Kim, Rudyard Kipling had written the stories of Mowgli in 1894 and 1895. It was in this year that the Second Jungle Book came out. The two books were commonly sold together as The Jungle Books. Mowgli had first appeared in 1893's In The Rukh, and is a fictional Indian character. Kipling is also known for his poetry: 'You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din....' (Pearson, 2018).
1896
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| 1896 William McKinley Campaign poster Wikipedia -- McKinley, 2018) |
In Other News for 1896
- First Modern Olympic Games
- The Olympic Games of the I Olympiad are held in Athens, Greece. The original Olympics date back to 776 BC and were held at Olympia on the border of Greece and Macedonia and only Greeks were allowed to compete (Pearson, 2018).
- Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation (OurTimelines.com, 2018).
- Tsar Nicholas II
- Nicholas II is crowned Tsar of Russia (Pearson, 2018).
- Utah enters the Union as the 45th state (OurTimelines.com, 2018).
- Utah becomes the 45th United State on January 4th , 1896. To become a state it became necessary to renounce the Mormon church's promotion of polygamy as well as their political party the "People's Party" (Pearson, 2018).
- Yukon Gold Rush
- Gold is discovered in Bonanza (Rabbit) Creek, Yukon, Canada starting the Klondike Gold Rush/Yukon gold rush. Thousands rush to the Klondike River near Dawson City, Yukon, Canada hoping to strike it rich (Pearson, 2018).
1897
11 February 1897
Marriage of Daughter Effie
Daughter Effie Bos (born 1877 in Netherlands) married Jacob D. Capaan, Oak Harbor, Island WA. They had two children, Joseph Capaan Jr, and Bertha (Albertha Wilhelmina). There are two very nice family portraits on Ancestry.com. Effie may have been married to Allie Kemper Capaan, according to her Find a Grave memorial, here. If so, then her name would actually be Effie Bos Capaan Capaan. |
| https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47374805 |
4 March 1897
William McKinley becomes the 25th President of the United States
He served from 4 March 1897 until his assassination six months into his second term. He was the last president to have served in the Civil War, and the only one to have started that war as an enlisted soldier (Wikipedia -- McKinley, 2018).
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| 1897 William McKinley, 25th President (Wikipedia -- McKinley, 2018) |
Quote: -- "Expositions are the timekeepers of progress" -- William McKinley (McKinley, 2018)
1897 age 42, Historical Insight
Historical Insight -- Dr Barnum Brown, Fossil Hunter
John Bos II of Oak Harbor, Washington may have eagerly read the daily news hoping to hear more about Dr. Barnum Brown's fantastic fossil discoveries in 1900.
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| Dr Barnum Brown, Fossil Hunter -- Historical Insights (3) 1911. Credit: AMNH/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain (Ancestry Historical Insights, 2018) |
Dr Brown's worldwide travels gave him important geographic information, which he provided to the U.S. government during World War II. Dr Brown's work made him a kind of scientific celebrity, and people flocked to see both him and the fossils he had unearthed (Ancestry Historical Insights, 2019).
- Boston Marathon
- The World's oldest annual marathon run in Boston, Massachusetts, United States races for the first time. The Boston Marathon ranks as one of the world's most prestigious road racing events with an average of 20,000 taking part. The marathon is one of five members of the World Marathon Majors which include the cities of Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York City (Pearson, 2018).
- Dracula is Published
- Bram Stoker's Dracula was published in this year, but owes its origins to some of the 19th Century's earlier literary works, such as Wilkie Collins' The woman in White and Moonstone, John Polidori's The Vampyre, and Dion Boucicault's The Vampire (Pearson, 2018).
- First US Gasoline Powered Car Maker
- Charles Duryea and Frank Duryea were the first Americans to build a successful commercial automobile, and the first to incorporate an American business for the expressed purpose of building automobiles for sale to the public (Pearson, 2018).
- Grant's Tomb
- The nation mourned with the death of Ulysses S. Grant in 1895, and thousands lined the streets of New York for the dedication of his tomb in 1897. It is on Riverside Drive and 122nd Street, and was attended by President McKinley. A number of Grant's ex-comrades and foes were also present (Pearson, 2018).
In Other News for 1898
- New York's Five Counties
- The counties (or boroughs) of New York City are defined. They are New York (Manhattan), King's (Brooklyn), Bronx (Bronx), Queen's (Queen's) and Richmond (Staten Island) (Pearson, 2018).
- Puerto Rico
- The US Takes formal possession of the Island of Puerto Rico (Pearson, 2018). 18th
- USS Main
- USS Maine suddenly explodes and sinks in Havana harbor, Cuba killing nearly three quarters of her crew. No cause has ever been found but suggested causes range from Spanish Espionage to an undetected fire in one of her coal bunkers (Pearson, 2018).
- 11 February 1899
- The Great Blizzard
- 1899's Great Blizzard affected the South more than the North, and its reports gave it an extremely cold weight and density of air. It started on February 11th and despite its largely more southerly influence it reached -61º F in Montana and -47º F in Nebraska. Snow started falling on February 12th, and Washington D.C. had over twenty inches of snow falling, with New Jersey reaching an astonishing thirty-four inches. New Orleans was iced over, as were parts of the Mississippi River. By February 14th the temperatures started to rise again (Pearson, 2018).
- 6 March 1899
- Aspirin
- Felix Hoffman, a German Chemist who worked for Bayer, investigated using a new acetylsalicylic acid as a less-irritating replacement for standard common salicylate medicines and together with other chemists created Aspirin for pain relief. Aspirin has been replaced by paracetamol and ibuprofen over recent years for pain relief but is widely used as a preventive treatment for heart attacks and strokes (Pearson, 2018).
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