Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-11-27
KNOWN FOR MANY YEARS
AS LEADER OF SUrERAGISTS

lnez Milholland Boissevain had been
for many years widely known for her
activity as woman sufrraciSt, n So
clal welfare worker, an advocate Of
socialism and as practicing LAWYER
AS student in NaSsar College. 1905
1909. although known ;.s the college
beauty. and possessed OF wealth and
position, she stunned society as such
and shocked the moro conservative col
l"Ec opinion by her radical social
views one OF her acts during this
period was to hold - suffrage meeting
IN graveyard at n.ht. whom permits
sion 10 hold the meeting in tho ..olInro
chapel had bccn refused l.r. she also
made name for herself rs an athlete
being captain OF her class hockey team.
which won the cole: champion shin.
and member of the 1909 track tcam.
at winch time she established u now
record for the college in the eight
ound Shot-put at thirty-"nc feet,
eight nd scvcn-cighths inches
Aside from her college activities. she
worked among the poor children in the
city Of PouEhkccpsie, and had herself
appointed court probation officer. Dur
ing her first college vacation she
visited London, and there J,incd III"
fankhurst suffragcttcs, making several
speeches and being once arrested
During the 1905 presidential cam,
paiSn she won new fame as the girl
VINO broke up tho Taft parade" While
the parade was being held in New York
city, she stationed herself in window
and shouted: Votes for womcnr'
through mcEaphonc. Some OF the
marchers fell out ot the parade and
gathered around hcr 20 hear her make
Il speech for tho suffrage causc.
Following her graduation from Vas.
Sar college. she attcmutcd Ia cn,.r
Harvard Law School but this ncrm;s
sion was denied hcr on the ground tba,
II was not a cocducatio in.ti,u,inn
The incident gave rise To u heated
newspaper controversy. in which ln,z
Miiholland nnd other prominent fcmin
is'S TOOK part. She also became active
'p"ut th's time IN the working -ciris'
'HuSc. taxing part in th" shirtwaist-
'''"htrS Slrlk". IN claS!; Of the ..triIi-
"rS with tho police she was orr,..od
anu '"rh'd np. nut after controversy
"i several weeks the charge agains,
her Of leading an ,Inlawf,,l .sscn,,,I,.
iinail% was dropped
RECEIVES DEtREE IL LAW
~: NEW iORK UNIVERSITY
MISS Milholland finally received hcr
dcgrc" in law q; the New YorI; irri-
versity Law School in 1912. and Gur-
ing this time she was active as "a suf
rage worker and speaker and or
Sani"cr OF w"mcn's parad..;. being fca-
lurch IN them both in New Yor,
Washington. y. g.. and elsewhere as
tn: most beautiful suffrasc,tc." Al
election time she was always "A watcher
ai the polls and was amon,, the wo
men VINO went 20 Albany to demand of
the legislature womun's rights to yot.
She began the practice of law i'm
1917 as clerk i'm the offices of James
w. Osborne. her first case being the
defense OF Red phir' Davidson, charr-
ed with the murder OF "Hig Jack" Zc-
'iS. Her next case was the defense OF
&c" boy funG, accused OF murder in
CHINATOWN Tong war, and she was
succe essful in obtaining his acquittal
In July. 1913. she married. by civil
ceremony in London. Eugcn Boisscvain.
4 wealthy Hollander, to whom she had
been introduced by William Marcont
inventor OF wireless tclcgraphy She
returned to this country and continued
her practice Of law and suffrage ac,
tivities In 1915 she was denied per-
mission tn make a suffrage speech Mt
the nfticth anniversary ceremonies of
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