John Bos II Part 6 1900s
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| John Bos II mini-pedigree from Ancestry.com |
1900
Federal Census
Coupeville, Oak Harbor, and San de Fuca Precincts, Island County, Washington
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| John Bos 1900 census Oak Harbor WA with Wilhelmina, Chris, Cora, Peter, John, Minnie, Girtie, Nicholas |
John and Wilhelmina Bos living on what looks like a farm in Oak Harbor WA. John was born in Holland February 1855, is aged 45. Wilhelmina was also born in Holland, in May 1849. She and John have been married 23 years at this point, and she has 9 of the 12 children she bore are still alive. This is a document that tells us John Bos arrived in the US in 1882, and has been in the country for 18 years by now. The children living with them are Chris age 20, Cora age 19, Peter age 15, John age 13 (you can see the age was corrected from 14), Minnie age 12, Girtie age 11 and Nicholas age 7. I've written about Nicholas in an earlier post.
Interesting. She has seven children living with her. The oldest daughter that I know of was Effie about age 23, who must be either married or working outside this home. There must be another older child also living outside the home, plus three more who did not survive to this point. I just thought of something. If this is Wilhemina's second marriage, she could have children by her first husband. That would account for any discrepancy.
Interesting. She has seven children living with her. The oldest daughter that I know of was Effie about age 23, who must be either married or working outside this home. There must be another older child also living outside the home, plus three more who did not survive to this point. I just thought of something. If this is Wilhemina's second marriage, she could have children by her first husband. That would account for any discrepancy.
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A postcard view of the north side of Water Street from Locust Street to Church Street. Taken between 1900 & 1908, the photo shows a (then) modern, up to date town with mainly brick commercial buildings fronting on a brick street with concrete sidewalks. The IOOF (Independent Order of Odd Fellows) had a meeting hall on the upper level of the building shown on the right. The building on the far left (gray & not colored) was the 3 story Kuebeler Hotel. Because of the large amount of wagons & buggies in town, this photo was probably taken on a Saturday. This was the day most people, especially farmers, went to town to do their shopping. Most of the buildings shown in this photo still exist on Water Street. -- (Oak Harbour Public Library, 2018)
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For a thumbnail history of Island County, check out this website: http://www.historylink.org/File/7523/
For a history of Dutch colonists arriving at Oak Harbor 1894, see this website: http://www.historylink.org/File/5432
In Other News for 1900
- Electric Cars
- 25% of all cars that were sold in 1900 were electric cars. It will be interesting to see how many years it takes for 25% of all cars sold to be fully electric or Hybrid (Pearson, 2017).
- Galveston Island Hurricane
- A Category 4 Hurricane with estimated winds of 135 miles per hour makes landfall on the city of Galveston, Texas. The hurricane caused the loss of between 6,000 and 12,000 lives about 20% of the island�s population, the reason for so much loss of life was that Galveston was a low, flat island, little more than a large sandbar along the Gulf Coast and the hurricane had brought with it a storm surge of over 15 feet, which washed over the entire island (Pearson, 2017).
- Hawaii is organized as a territory (OurTimelines.com)
- In Kentucky a small pox epidemic was raging with hundreds of people stricken. The mortality rate was 20% and health authorities demanded that every person in the state be vaccinated (Pearson, 2017).
- Second Modern Olympic Games
- The Summer Olympic Games of the II Olympiad are held in Paris, France. This is the first Olympics where women are allowed to compete (Pearson, 2017).
- Small Pox Epidemic
McKinley Roosevelt Campaign Poster
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| 1900 William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt Campaign poster |
1901
14 September 1901
US President William McKinley is assassinated.
William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States is assassinated by Leon Czolgosz when he is shot at point blank range. He died on September 14th 1901, eight days after he was shot, from gangrene surrounding his wounds. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 26th President of the United States on September 14th, 1901 (Pearson, 2017).
Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 26th President of the United States
He served from 1901 to 1909. His face is on Mount Rushmore. He is generally ranked as one of the five best presidents (Wikipedia -- Roosevelt, T., 2018).
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| 1901 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President (Wikipedia -- Roosevelt, T., 2018) |
President Theodore Roosevelt Quote: -- "A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad" -- Theodore Roosevelt (Roosevelt T., 2018)
In Other News for 1901
- The Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed (Pearson, 2017).
- First Nobel Prizes
- The first Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. The Nobel Prizes are funded by a fund created after the death of Alfred Nobel the Swedish inventor of dynamite and other high explosives. In his will, Nobel directed that the bulk of his vast fortune be placed in a fund in which the interest would be "annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind." (Pearson, 2017).
- First British submarine is launched (OurTimelines.com, 2018).
- First Speed Limits
- Connecticut passes new laws limiting the speeds of Automobiles to 10 MPH in cities 15 MPH in villages and 20 MPH in rural areas (Pearson, 2017).
- King Edward VII begins his reign over Saxe-Coberg (OurTimelines.com, 2018).
- Marconi Sends First Wireless Transmission
- Marconi sends first wireless transmission over 2000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean from Poldhu in Cornwall, England to Newfoundland, Canada. The transmission consisted of the Morse-code signal for the letter "s" which consists of three dots ( ... ) (Pearson, 2017).
- Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation (OurTimelines.com, 2018).
- Oil is discovered in Texas in significant amounts (OurTimelines.com, 2018).
- Safety Razor
- King C. Gillette and William Emerson Nickerson found the American Safety Razor Company to begin mass producing Safety Razors (Pearson, 2017).
- the Third law of thermodynamics is postulated by W.H. Nernst (OurTimelines.com, 2018).
- Queen Victoria Dies
- Queen Victoria dies at the age of eighty one. She had nine children, and left Edward as her heir. Her reign has been used to designate the era, and was the longest serving of any English monarch. She presided over the change of government from monarchy to almost pure democracy. Her Prime Ministers had included Robert Peel, William Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli, Henry Temple and John Russell. Queen Victoria passed away in the Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. She had become queen when she was 18 and had ruled for nearly 64 years of her life (Pearson, 2017).
In Other News for 1902
A very useful company called AAA (American Automobile Association) was founded on this day. Before this time, other companies dealing with automobile concerns had existed. However, none of them seemed to last and to this date AAA is one of the largest automobile organizations in the world (Pearson, 2017).
Ernest Shackleton is part of Robert Scott's British National Antarctic Expedition and joins Scott and Edward Wilson on their sledge journey across the Ross Ice Shelf. They were to reach the most southerly point that anyone had got to by getting to Latitude 82º 16' 33" South on December 30th 1902. This was the record until Scott had got to Latitude 77º 59' South the following year (Pearson, 2017).
In Other News for 1903
Edward Binney and C. Harold Smith introduce the world to Crayola Crayons for school kids. The first boxes consisted of 8 different colors and the boxes were the same trademark color of yellow and green they are today (Pearson, 2017).
Prussia become the first country to issue driving licenses on September 29th , 1903. It was the Dampfkesselüberwachungsverein that was required to pass the tests, which were largely conducted on the drivers' mechanical skills (Pearson, 2017).
A large naval base is established in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The U.S. Marines had landed there in 1898 , and it had been recognized for its proximity to the Winward Passage and to Panama (Pearson, 2017).
Henry Ford (A Machinist and Engineer) forms the Ford Motor Company to manufacture Automobiles (Pearson, 2017).
Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful man-powered airplane flight near on December 17th at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The plane weighed 750 pounds and was powered by a 12 horsepower gasoline engine. The craft is referred to as an airship and Orville and Wright were looking for buyers for their machine which was capable of speeds up to 10 mph (Pearson, 2017).
- Olympic Games
- The Summer Olympic Games of the III Olympiad are held in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States (Pearson, 2017).
- Times Square
- Long Acre Square in Manhattan, New York, is renamed Times Square (Pearson, 2017).
- Radar is developed (OurTimelines.com).
1905
Marriage of son Christian
1905 son Christian marries Francine Kaufers in Seattle, King, Washington. Her name is also spelled Kamps, I haven't researched which is correct. So far, I have used Kaufers. Christian was born in Holland in 1880, had at least two children, and died 1946 aged about 65. You can visit his Find a Grave memorial here.
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| https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43783444 |
In Other news for 1905
- Illiteracy in the US
- In 1905, illiteracy in the U.S. was 106.6 per 1,000 persons. Statistics showed that 6,180,063 persons were illiterate in America. The Arizona Republican observed, �Illiteracy is more common in the country than in the city. This is due to the superior schools in the towns and the more general attendance of children." (Pearson, 2017).
- New Orleans Yellow Fever Kills Hundreds (Pearson, 2017).
- The Nickelodeon
- The world's first nickelodeon opened showing a silent film called The Great Train Robbery the name was used as it cost 5 cents or a nickel to watch the movie or live vaudeville acts (Pearson, 2017).
In Other News for 1906
- Morse Code SOS Adopted
- International Morse code distress signal or SOS (... --- ...) (three dots, three dashes, three dots) became the worldwide standard when it was included in the second International Radiotelegraphic Convention, in Berlin
- Mount Vesuvius Erupts
- Vesuvius erupted on April 4th 1906, and its southern slope vented to about 1,200 meters. Its lava flow had stopped by the 5th, when a new effusion started on the Casa Fiorenza. This one went up to about 800 meters when a third one had occurred on the shoreline. The volcano's eruptions had become stronger throughout April 7th and the crater rim cracked and lava flowed. The 8th of April had started a number of explosive ruptures and the cone started to effuse a large amount of fume. The eruptions lasted until April 21st (Pearson, 2017).
- Plastic is developed (which will eventually cause a huge plastic island in the ocean) (OurTimelines.com).
- Oklahoma enters the Union as the 46th state (OurTimelines.com).
1908
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| 1908 Taft Sherman Campaign Poster |
In Other News for 1908
- Baden Powell Starts the Boy Scouts
- Robert Baden-Powell had been an Army officer in the defense of Mafeking, but had gone on to create the Boy Scout movement. He had started a camp for boys in Dorset in 1907, and gone on to produce his Scouting for Boys Booklet in 1908. The movement's promotion of both self-reliance and teamsmanship were instantly popular
- Ford Model T
- Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company introduces the Ford Model T costing $850.00, this was nearly 1/3 of the price of any other car on the market but still not cheap enough for the masses. Over the next few years he perfected assembly line production bringing the cost down to $368.00 in 1916making it much more affordable consequently selling hundreds of thousands more cars than any other company
- Messina Earthquake
- The Messina Earthquake, a category 7.5 according to today's Richter scale, strikes the Straits of Messina in southern Italy, destroying the cities of Messina in Sicily and Reggio di Calabria on the Italian mainland. The earthquake and tsunami it caused killed between 50,000 and 150,000
- New Year Ball is dropped in New York City's Times Square to signify the start of the New Year at midnight on January 1st (Pearson, 2017).
- Tunguska atmospheric object exploded over the Russian Tundra (OurTimelines.com).
- Want to learn more? Click on this link right here. Okay, so Wikipedia is not a creditable source, but you can also look at the NASA Science article here!
1909
1909 daughter Gertrude Bos marries Newell Schock, Oak Harbor Island WA
Gertrude went by the nickname Girtie, and was the seventh of John's eight children. She was 20 years old when she married Newell Schock. They moved to Wenatchee, Chelan County WA. They had three girls: Marguerite C. Schock Parks who lived to be 100 years old with two sons, two grandchildren; Cre Ella Schock Tolbert who had two children; and Orpha Gene Schock who died in California. Everyone is buried in either Wenatchee, Chelan County, or East Wenatchee, Douglas County. Girtie was 82 years old when she died. You can visit her Find a Grave memorial here.
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| https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18902575 |
William Howard Taft becomes the 27th President of the United States
He was the 10th Chief Justice of the US, the only person to have held both offices. The vice president became president when Theodore Roosevelt was assassinated, and was deveated by Woodrow Wilson after splitting the Republican Party by running as a third party candidate (Wikipedia -- Taft, 2018).
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| 1909 William Howard Taft, 27th President (Wikipedia -- Taft, 2018) |
Quote: -- "A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad" (Taft, 2018)
In Other News for 1909
- Automobile Hearse
- For the first time ever an automobile hearse was used in a funeral procession. Before this time, horse-drawn carriages had always been used to carry the honored body of a person who has passed away
- First Fingerprint Evidence Used in Murder Case
- For the first time fingerprint evidence is used to solve a murder case in 1909. The worlds first official Fingerprint Bureau was founded in Scotland Yard in 1901. It should also be noted that the World's first Fingerprint Bureau opened in Calcutta, India in 1897
- First Men to Reach the North Pole
- Explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson claim to became the first men to reach the North Pole. On April 6, they established "Camp Jesup" allegedly within five miles of the pole. There is a large amount of controversy over this claim for a number of reasons including no independent verification and discrepancies in his journal, and even looking at those Societies who accepted or did not accept his claim makes it difficult to know for certain. The National Geographic Society certified his claim. The Royal Geographical Society of London accepted Claim. The American Geographical Society did not accept his claim. Societies of semi-Arctic Scandinavia did not accept his claim
- NAACP
- The NAACP was formed partly in response to the continuing practice of lynching and the 1908 race riot in Springfield, the capital of Illinois. Appalled at the violence that was committed against blacks, a group of white liberals that included Mary White Ovington and Oswald Garrison Villard, issued a call for a meeting to discuss racial justice. Some 60 people, seven of whom were African American (including W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Mary Church Terrell) attended the meeting
- Naval Base at Pearl Harbor
- To prevent a Japanese expansion in the Pacific Congress had
passed a act in 1908 to build a naval yard in Pearl Harbor, and President Taft
had announced this in 1909. It was said at the time to be the world's largest
naval base, and its construction was budgeted for around $3 million
- Union of South Africa is formed (OurTimelines.com, 2018).
- World's Airplane Record
- The world's airplane record for two men, was broken in a flight of one hour, twelve minutes and forty seconds over fifty miles and at a speed averaging about forty miles an hour by Orvill Wright and Lieutenant Frank P. Lahm, of the army signal corps, as passenger (Pearson, 2017).
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Resources
Nicholas Willard Bos Part 1, https://bosfamilyresearch.blogspot.com/2018/05/nicholas-willard-bos-part-1.html
Pearson, S. (2017). 1900 The People History. Retrieved December 30, 2016, from 1900 to 1909 Important News, Significant Events, Key Technology: http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1900to1909.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/
Roosevelt, T. (2018, December). Theodore Roosevelt Quotes. Retrieved from BrainyQuote: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/theodore_roosevelt
Taft, W. H. (2018). William Howard Taft Quotes. Retrieved from BrainyQuotes: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/william_howard_taft
Wikipedia -- McKinley. (2018, December). William McKinley, 25th President. Retrieved from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McKinley
Wikipedia -- Roosevelt. (2018, December). Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President. Retrieved from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt
Wikipedia -- Taft. (2018). William Howard Taft, 27th President. Retrieved from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Taft
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