John Bost

Jean Antoine Bost (March 4, 1817 in Moutier-Grandval, canton of Bern-1 November 1881) was a French-Swiss Calvinist pastor and musician.

In 1840, he gave up his musical career and became a pastor in La Force, village of the Dordogne valley of France.

It was immediately made available to children, orphans, disabled and incurables.

He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1864.

[1] The asylum has since flourished to become the John Bost Foundation where over 1000 people with a wide variety of disabilities live.