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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 ...
His first wife Rhoda Elsie Boissevain (1918–1999), was also a fine portrait painter and runner-up in the Rubinstein Prize for portraiture 1960. She also taught at Perth Technical College in the 1960s. [ 8 ]
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.
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Boissevain was the widower of labor lawyer and war correspondent Inez Milholland, a political icon Millay had met during her time at Vassar. [35] A self-proclaimed feminist, Boissevain supported Millay's career and took primary care of domestic responsibilities. Both Millay and Boissevain had other lovers throughout their 26-year marriage.