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Famille Bost
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Ancienne famille suisse originaire du canton de Geneve.
The following book is a MUST for you to read
if you descend from this BOST family!! It is a compilation of
Theodore & Sophie (Bonjour) BOST's letters to their family
back in Switzerland in the mid 1800s - to about the late 1880s!
Theodore BOST was the son of Ami BOST, a leading figure in the
great wave of evangelical piety called the Awakening. Ami Bost
was a powerful preacher, an influential theologian, a gifted
composer of scared music and the translator of John Bunyan's
"The Pilgrim's Progress" into French. Ami also set
music to 14 short poems that Bunyan included in his text. Ami's
son, Theodore (and the subject of the below book) heard his
father's hymn's and cantatas sung in St. Paul, Minnesota. Ami's
wife was named Jenny.
The book is titled: "A Frontier Family in Minnesota, Letters
of Theodore and Sophie BOST, 1851-1920", translated and
edited by: BOWEN, Ralph H. (University of Minnesota Press :
Minneapolis, 1981)
I read this book for background history knowledge. My family were
also pioneers in Minn., not far from where Sophie and Theodore
BOST lived.
It is a WONDERFUL book of letters. You learn about Theodore and
Sophie great deal - about early pioneer living; how tough it was
physically, financially and more. Sophie and Theodore write
delightful letters and when you are done reading the book, you
feel as if you always knew them. They discuss pioneer life, their
thoughts about America, the births of their children, write about
each other, the American Civil War, politics, about people that
they befriended and more.
If you descend from this family, it is a TREASURE Trough full of
information and there are some wonderful footnotes and source
citations.
Jean Weddle jeanie79@comcast.net
Personnalités:
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Notes généalogiques:
Etymologie
Répartition des familles en Suisse (1999)
Armoiries
Familles Bost
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mise à jour du 30 janvier 2005