Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-11-30
|NEZ MILH0LLANO
B0|SSEVA|N DEAD
Remarkable as Beauty, Athlete.
Suffragist. Lawyer and
Social Worker.

Los angeles, Cal, Nov 26.--Mrs 1nez
Milholand Bossevain. the New York
suffragist leader. died at local hospital,
where abe has been i'll for ten days, early
this morning
Inez Milho,land Poiseevain had been
Tor many years widely known for her
activity rs n woman sufrragist, n social
welfare worker an advocate OF socialism,
and = practicing lawyer.
AS a student in Vassar College, 1862
although known az the college beauty,
and possessed Of wealth and position,
the more conservative college opinion by
her radical social views One Of her acts
during this period was to hold a suffrage
meeting in graveyard at night when
permission to hold the meeting in the COL
lege chapel had been refused her. She
also made name for herself as an
athlete. being captain Of her class hockey
team which won the college champion.
ship, and a member OF the 1909 track
team, at which time she established a
new record for the college in the eight.
pound shot-put at 81 feet sN inches
Aside from her college activities. she
worked among the poor children in the
city of Poughkeepsie. and had herself
appointed court probation officer, During
her first college vacation she visited Lon
don and there Joined the Pankhurst sui.
fragettes. making several speeches and
being once arrested
During the 1908 presidential campaign
she won now fame as 1.-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: Votes for Women" through
a megaphone Some of the marchers fell
cut of the parade and gathered around
her to hear her make a speech for the
suffrage cause.
Following her graduation from Vassat
College, she attempted to enter Harvard
Law school. but this permission was de-
MED her on the ground that I, was not a
co-educational institution. Tho incident
gave rise TO a heated newspaper contro-
versy in which Inez Milhollsnd and other
prominent femnists took part She also
became active about this time in the
working girls cause, taking part in the
shirt waist makers strike. In clash
Of tho strikers with the police she was
a rrested and locked UP. but after a con-
troversy of several weeks the charge
bly, was finally dropped
Miss Milholland finally received her do
gree in law at the New York University
! .aw school in 1919. and during this time
she was active suffrage worker and
speaker and organizer of womans par
AIDES, being fes tured in them 10th in New
York. Washington. y. C., and elshew here
as the most beautiful suffra cette." At
election time she was always watcher
at the polls and was among the women
who vent TO Albany TO demand Of the
Legislature womans rights to vote.
She began the practice of law in 1912 as
a clerk in tho offices of James W. Os-
borne her first case being the defense Of
Red Phil' Davidson charged with me
murder Of Big Jack Ielig. Her mex.
case was the defense of Gee boy Yung
accused Of murder in a Chinatown tong
war. and she was successful in obtaining
his acnuttal
In July, 1919. she married by a civil
ceremony in London Eugen Boissevain
a wealthy Hollander, to whom she had
been introduced by william MaTconi.
inventor ~ wireless telegraphy. She
returned to this country and continued
her practice Of law and suffrage actv-
tiles. In 1915 she was denied permits
sion to make a suffrage speech at the
tiftieth anniversary ceremonies Of Vas
sar Collage. Later the same year she
went to Italy war correspondent
and was forced tn leave italy by the
authorities there because of her paci-
fist writings.
In 1916 she went as a delegate on
the Ford Peace ship, but LEFT the party
at Stockholm because, as she said in a
statement, the undemocratic meth ods
employed by the managers are repug.
nant to my principles"
Mrs. Roissevain was born in New
York. August 6. 1855. receiving hey
early education in New York. London
and Berlin. She was a member of the
Political Equality League, Women's Po-
litical Union, National Child Labor
Committee, Women's Social and Politi-
cal Union of England and the Fabian
society. England.