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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 ...
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.
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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]
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 ...
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.
After 1915, Boissevain moved to Great Britain and adopted two English girls. She lived in Switzerland with her two daughters from around 1925 to 1928, moved to the Netherlands afterwards and lived in London from 1930 until her death in 1959. She is buried in Amsterdam.
Athanase Adolphe Henri Boissevain (8 March 1843 – 1 April 1921) was a Dutch banker who financed North American railways. He was from a prominent Boissevain family that had long been active in the banking and insurance industries in Amsterdam. [1] He founded the banking company Adolphe Boissevain & Co in 1875. [1]