Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-27
Noted Suffragist
 Leader is Dead
MRS. INEZ MILHOLLAND 6oISsE-
 VAIN OF NEW YORK
DIED IN LOS ANGELES
Had Been Active as a Social Worker, an Advocate of Socialism and as Praetieing Lawyer-Had Been UT for Ten Weeks.

Los Angeles. Calif., Nov. 26-Mrs. meg Mulholland Boissevain, widely known suffragist and welfare worker, dled In a hospital here shortly before midnight last night after an illness of ten, weeks. She was 30 years of age.
 Stricken While Making an Address. Mrs. Boissevain was stricken sud- denly while addressing an audience in this city during the recent politi- cal campaign and Tainted on the plat 1 form at the meeting. She was re- moved to hospital and her husband and parents rushed from New York to join her here. Miss Vida MilhoI- land, her sister, was with her when she was stricken and had been in con- stant attendance since that time. ApIastic Anemfa.
 Mrs. Boissevain's illness was diag- nosed as aplastic anemia and blood | transmission was resorted to in at tempts to improve her condition. Miss l Vida Milholland twice gave blood for | this purpose and on four other occa- sions friends submitted to the ordeal | in hope that benefit would result. Af- | ter each transfusion temporary inn | proVement was followed by relapses. l A few days ago the physicians in | charge stated that there was practi- l cally no hope for Mrs. Boissevain but | thereafter she rallied and it was I thought she might recover.
 Late today she began to sink. Her | husband, Eugene Boissevain. her par 1 ents, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Milhol- l land, of New York, and her sister, Miss Vida, were present when she ' died. Trouble Originated in TonsiIs. l It was stSted that Mrs. Boissevain's 1 trouble originated in her tonsils which | became inf1amed as the result of too l constant speaking during the cam | paign. She had been weakened by over-exertion and when she became | i'll her sistem failed to resist the ad- 1 vance of the disease.
 Sketch of Her Life.
 i Inez Milholland Boissevain had been l for many years widely known for her l activity as a woman suffragist. a so- 1 cial welfare worker an advocate of l socialism, and as a practicing law yer.
 Had Radical Social Views. As q student in Vassar College
 1905-9. although known as the college 1 beauty, and possessed of wealth and position, she summed society as such, and shocked the more conservative college opinion by her radical social | views. One of her acts during this period was to hold q suffrage meeting in a graveyard at night when permis sion to hold the meeting in the college chapel had been refused her.
 Was an Athlete.
 She also made a name for herself as an athlete, being captain of her class hockey team which won the col lege championship, and a member of the 1909 track team, at which time she established a new record for the col lege in the eight-pound shot-put at 3l feet 8 1-S inches.
 Worked Among Poor Children. Aside from her college activities,
 she worked among the poor children
 in the city of POughkeepsie. and had herself appointed court probation off
 cer. During her first college vacation
 she visited London and there joined
 the Pankhurst suffragettes, making
 several speeches and being once ar
 Broke Up Taft Parade.
 During the 1908 presidential cam paign she won new fame as the girl
 who broke up the Taft parade" While
 York city, she stationed herself in a window and shouted: Votes for
 Womeni" through a megaphone. Some
 of the marchers fell out of the parade
 and gathered around her to hear her
 make a speech for the suffrage cause.
 Some Famorv Law Cases. I She began the practice of law in 1912 as a clerk in the offices of James
 w. Osborne, her first case being the
 defense of Red PhiF' Davidson. who
 was charged with the murder of Big Jack" Ze1ig. Her next case was the | l 1 murder in a Chinatown tong war. and
 sha was successful in obtaining his
 acquittal.
 Married in London.
 In July 1913 she married by civil ! ceremony in London. Eugen Boisse- 1 vain, a wealthy Hollander, to whom
 she had been introduced by William Marconi, inventor of wireless tele-
 graphy She returned to this ccun-
 try and continued her practice of law and. suffrage activities.
 One of Ford Peace Party. . In 1916 she went as a delegate on
 the Ford Peace Ship, but left the par
 ty at Stockholm because, as she said in a statement the undemocratic
 methods employed by the managers
 are repugnant to my principles"
 Mrs Boissevain was born in New , York, Aug. 6. 1886, receiving her ear Iy education in New York, London and Berlin She was a member of the Po- litical Equality League, Women's Po-
 Iitical Union. National Child Labor
 committee, Woman's Social and Politi- q cal Union of England and the Fabian , Society, England.