The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-11-27
MRS. BO|SSEVA|N
SUFFRAGE LEADER
DIED LAST NIGHT
BIZ ASSOCIATED PRESS.

81 ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Los Angeles CAL, Nov. 26.-Mrs. |
Inez Milholland Boissevain, suffrage
leader, who has been i'll here from
anemia for several weeks, died last
midnight.
Inez Miholland Boissevain had been
for many years widely known for her
activity as a woman suffragist, a !
social welfare worker, an advocate of |
socialism, and rs a prcticing lawyer. |
AS a student in Vassar College, |
1869, although knownAs the college
beauty, and possessed of wealth and
position, she Stunned 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 a suffrage meet
ing in graveyard at night when per-
mission to hold the meeting in the
college chapel had been refused her.
She also made a name for herself as
an athlete, being captain of her class
hockey team which won the college
championship, and member of the
1909 track team, at which time she
established new record for the col
lege in the eight-pound shot-put at
81 feet, 87-8 inches.
Aside from her college activities,
she worked among the poor children
in the city of Poughkeepsie, ard had
herself appointed court probation of
ficer. During her first college va
cation she visited London and there
joined the Pankhurst suffragettes.
making several speeches and being
once arrested.
During the 1908 presidential cam
paign she won new fame as "the girl
who broke up the Taft parade" While
| the parade was being held in New
York City, she stationed herself in a
window and shouted: 'eVotes for
Womenp through a megaphone,
Some of the marchers fell out of the
parade and gathered around her to
hear her make speech for the sui
frage cause.
Following her graduation from
Vassar College, she attempted to en-
ter Harvard Law School, but this
permission was denied her en- the
ground that it was no a co-education-
al institution. The incident gave rise
to heated newspaper controversy in
which Inez Milholland and other
prominent feminists took part. She
also became active about this time
in the working girls cause, taking
part in the shirt waist makers
strike. In a clash of the strikers
with the police she was arrested and
locked up, but after controversy
of several weeks the charge against
her of leading an unlawful assembly
was finally dropped.
| Miss Miholand finally received her
degree in law at the New York Uni
versity Law School in 1912, and dur
ing this time she was active as a
suffrage worker and speaker and or
ganizer of woman's parades, being
featured in them both in New York,
Washington, D. c., and elsewhere as
"the most beautiful suffragette." Al
election time she was always a watch
er at the polls and was among the
women who went to Albany to de-
mand of the legislature woman's
rights to vote.
She began the practice of law in
f1912 as a clerk in the offices of Jas.
w. Osborne, her first case being the
defense of "Red Phil" Davidson,
charged with the murder of "Big
Jack" Zelig. Her next case was the
defense of Gee boy Yung, accused
of murder in Chinatown tong war,
and she was successful in obtaining
his acquittal.
In July, 1918, she married by a
civil ceremony in London, Eugen
Boissevain, wealthy Hollander, to
whom she had been introduced by
William Marconi, inventor of wire
less telegraphy. She returned to this
country and continued her practice
of law and suffrage activiries. In
1915 she was denied permission tc
make suffrage speech at the fiftieth
anniversary ceremonies of Vassal
College. Later the same year she
went to Italy as war correspondent
and was forced to leave Italy by the
i outhOhiIcc SilSAS OcCauSS o1 neE pa
cifist writings.
III In 1916 she went as a delegate OF
the Ford peace ship, but left tn,
party at Stockholm because, as sh,
said in statement, "the undemo
cratic methods employed by the man
ayers are repugnant to my princi
PIES"
II Mrs. Boissevain was born in New
York, August 6, 1886, receiving he
early education in New York, London
and Berlin. She was . member o
the Political Equality League. Won
ems Political Union, Naeional Chill
Labor Committee, Woman's Socia
and Political Union, of England, an
the Fabian Society, England.
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