Bos Family Research

John Bos II Part 7 1910s John Bos II mini-pedigree from Ancestry.com 1910  Federal Census, Oak Harbor, Island County, Washington John & Wilhelmina Bos 1910 Census Oak Harbor, Island County, Washington John Bos lived in Oak Harbor, Island County, Washington, age 55, born in  Netherland  (Holland).  It looks like he and Wilhelmina, age 60, have been married for 33 years, and that this is John's first marriage, but this is Wilhelmina's second marriage.  This census indicates they both arrived in the US in 1881, which is different than in the 1900 census.  John and Wilhelmina may have forgotten the EXACT date of his immigration.  If I had to choose, I'd tend to go with the 1900 census figure, because it was closer to the event.  Another possibility is that a neighbor or one of the kids answered the questions of the census taker, thus getting the date wrong.  It looks like John was naturalized, which mean...

John Bos II Part 3 1870s John Bos II mini-pedigree from Ancestry.com 1870 The family was still in the Netherlands. 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 th...

John Bos II Part 2, 1860s John Bos II mini-pedigree from Ancestry.com Yeah, ain't got much for John Bos and his family.  They are still in the Netherlands, and if anything happened, I don't have access to that documentation.  If you know anything, contact me using the form on the right, or drop me a comment below. 1860 Abraham Lincoln is Nominated President Lincoln's election for President was followed by South Carolina's succession from the Union.  Its senators had resigned from Congress and several of the Southern states were looking to leaving it as well.  With Lincoln not inaugurated there was little he could do, and it was only a matter of time before the Confederate States united (Pearson, 2017). In Other News for 1860 Henry Repeating Rifle     Benjamin Henry perfects the Henry rifle which was manufactured by the New Haven Arms Company, and used in considerable numbers by certain Union army units in the American Civil War...