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Wheatland, or the James Buchanan House, is a brick Federal style house which is located in Lancaster Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, outside of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It was formerly owned by the 15th president of the United States , James Buchanan .
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 ...
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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.
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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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 ...