Boissevain family
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The Boissevain family is a Dutch patrician family of French Huguenot origin.
The house of Willem Frederik Lamoraal Boissevain (1852–1919) in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia)
Inez Milholland
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Inez Milholland Boissevain was a leading American suffragist, lawyer, and peace activist.
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…North America. 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…
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Inez Milholland, on horseback, led the March 3, 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C. She was known as the 'Most Beautiful Suffragist'.
Front page of the Woman's Journal and Suffrage News from March 8, 1913. Depicted are Rosalie Gardiner Jones, Inez Milholland on a white horse, floats, and an aerial view of the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913.
Sketched by Marguerite Martyn of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1914