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INEZ MILHOLLAND
BOISSEVAIN DEAD

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self 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 a new record
for the college in the eight-pound
shot-put at 81 feet, SB inches.
Worked Among Poor.
Aside from her college activities,
she worked among the poor children
in the city of Poughkeepsie, and had
herself appointed court probation Of
ficer. During her first college vaca-
ton 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
window and shouted: Votes for
Womenp through megaphone.
Some OF the marchers fell out Of the
parade and gathered around her to
hear her make a speech for the suf-
frage cause.
Following her graduation from Vas
sar college, she attempted to enter
Harvard law school, but this permits
sion was denied her on the ground
that it was not co-educational insti-
tuition. The incident gave rise to a
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 waists 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 drop
ped.
Received Degree in 1912.
Miss Milholland 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 suf-
frage worker and speaker and organ
izer of woman's parades, being fea-
tured in them both in New York,
Washington and elsewhere as "the
most beautiful suffragette." At cleo
ton time she was always a watcher
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
1912 as a clerk in the Offices Of James
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 i'll London, Eugen Boisse-
vain, wealthy Hollander, to whom
she had beer introduced by William
Marconi, inventor OF wireless teleg-
iaphy. She returned to this country
and continued her practice of law and
suffrage activities, In 1915 she was
denied permission to make suffrage
speech at the fiftieth anniversary cere-
monies Of Vassar college. Later the
same year she went to Italy as a war
correspondent and was forced to leave
Italy by the authorities there because
of her pacifst 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
DDS employed by the managers are
repugnant to my principles"
Mrs. Boissevian was born In New
York, August 6, 1886, receiving her
early education in New York, London
and Berlin. She was a member of the
Political Equality league, Women's
Political union, national child labor
committee, Woman's Social and Po-
litical Union of England and the
Fabian society, England.