Charles A. Bos was born on 1 June 1940 in North Tonawanda, New York and grew up in Mentor, Ohio. He attended Oberlin College
where he studied German and met his wife, Marilyn Whitney. In 1962, a few months before graduation, the couple married. That
same year, they moved to Brentwood, Maryland where Bos took a job as a technical writer for the Naval Ordnance Laboratory.
Although he liked writing, he did not enjoy government employment and decided in 1965 to pursue his passion for auto repair
as a profession. In 1970, the Bos family moved to Leesburg, Virginia and purchased a circa 1830's home where they raised
three daughters: Margot, Karla and Lisa. He also opened the Leesburg Import Service, an automobile repair shop, and managed
it for twenty years until he retired.
Bos was civic-minded. His enthusiasm for renovating his historic Loudoun County home eventually led him to join Leesburg's
Board of Architectural Review in the 1970's, to serve on the board of the Loudoun Restoration and Preservation Society and
to initiate its first newsletter. He was elected to the Leesburg Town Council. Additionally, Bos was appointed to fill a
vacancy on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors and subsequently served a full term. He was one of the founders in 1976
for Leesburg's August Court Days, a community celebration that included music, crafts, food, and re-enactors dressed in period
clothes. It was during the August Court Days that Bos's vision of concerts on the Courthouse lawn emerged, which materialized
as the annual Bluemont Summer Concert Series.
Bos' diverse interests also included golfing, travel and music. Charles Bos died after a three year struggle with non-Hodgkin's
lymphoma at the age of 64 on 25 May 2005.
This collection consists of 113 color slides, taken from 1974 to 1987; the CD contains low resolution copies of 92. Images
focus on the Leesburg historic district and include the Aldie Mill. Images are individually catalogued in PastPerfect, Thomas
Balch Library's visual collections database available onsite, and may be identified in the online index available at www.leesburgva.gov/ThomasBalchLibrary/SpecialCollections
by searching vc_0024.
"'Chuck' Bos, community leader, dies," Loudoun Times-Mirror , A-22, 1 June 2005.
"Remembering a Man of Vision Leesburg Loses a Leader, Friend," Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/03/AR2005060302096.html, accessed 12 April 2010.
"'Chuck' Bos, community leader, dies," Loudoun Times-Mirror , A-22, 1 June 2005.
"Remembering a Man of Vision Leesburg Loses a Leader, Friend," Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/03/AR2005060302096.html, accessed 12 April 2010.
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