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His son Eugen Jan Boissevain (1880–1949), an importer of coffee from Java, married two notable 20th-century American women: suffragist Inez Milholland (1886–1916), for whom he emigrated to New York, and Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950). His son Robert Walrave Boissevain (1872-1938) emigrated to upstate New ...
Charles Hercules Boissevain was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on Oct. 18, 1893, to Maria Barbera Pijnappel and Charles Ernest Henri Boissevain.His father was a businessman and politician who sat on the Amsterdam city council and was a member of parliament in the province of North Holland before and during World War I. [1] His grandfather was Charles Boissevain, who had been the editor ...
Tennyson performing with Jan Peerce (left) and Robert Weede (right) on the CBS Radio program Great Moments in Music on October 13, 1942. Jean Tennyson (15 September 1898 [n 1] – 16 March 1991), also known by her married names Jean Tennyson Dreyfus and Jean Tennyson Boissevain, was an American soprano, musical theatre actress, philanthropist, and radio personality.
Inez Milholland Boissevain (August 6, 1886 – November 25, 1916) was a leading American suffragist, lawyer, and peace activist. From her college days at Vassar College , she campaigned aggressively for women’s rights as the principal issue of a wide-ranging socialist agenda.
Charles Boissevain (28 October 1842 – 5 May 1927) was a journalist, editor and part-owner of the Amsterdam Algemeen Handelsblad, a leading newspaper of the time. From 1872 he was on the editorial board of the literary journal De Gids .
He was born on October 4, 1870, in Amsterdam to Johannes Boissevain and Johanna Juliane Hoek. [1] He married Arabella Helen Magee in 1899. She was the daughter Emma S. and George J. Magee. [4] [5] In 1906 their house in New Castle, New York, was robbed and $10,000 worth of jewelry was taken. [6] [7] He died on April 25, 1924, in Manhattan. [1]
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The site is located near Boissevain, and has both colonial and Native American significance. There was once a palisaded Native village from the Late Woodland period on the site, and it was chosen by James Moore, a local militia captain who was one of Tazewell County's early settlers, as the site of his homestead in 1772.