Famille Bost
Histoire
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
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