New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-27
MRS. BOISSEVAIN
DIES IN HOSPITAL
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blance 70 him was not more marked
than were her temperament and her in
tellectuality, with their blending of
buoyancy, humor, versatility, impul-
siveness, generosity, indomitable en-
ergy and courage. 1t wa. when her
father was manifesting his striking
characteristics on the Tribune staff
that she was born and received her
early but lasting impressions.
Gains Degree in Law
Mr.. and Mrs. Milholland (the latter
formerly Miss Jean Torrey) then lived
in Brooklyn, where Inez was born on
August 8, 1885. A university man him
self, her father determined to give her
the best possible education. She at
tended the Comstock School in this
I city, and later, when her father, having
graduated from The Tribune into
finance, and having introduced the
pneumatic tube system into the Ameri-
can mail service, went to London TO
continue his enterprises there, she was
placed in the Kensington High School,
/ London. A course in the Willard
| School at Berlin completed her pre-
paratory education, and she came home
TO spend four years at Vassar. and then
to pass through the New York Uni
versity Law School and get her Ii. B.
She settled down to practise her pro-
7 fession in this city, and the fact that
she opened an Office in East Ninth
/ Street indicates the general character
Of practice which she sought. She was
the legal champion Of the industrial
| toilers Of the great city's workshops.
Champion of Workers
She was something more, too. than
their legal champion. She became their
/ militant leader. an aggressive agitator
for the improvement of their standard
of life. John +. Milholland. leading the
Republican revolt against the PLAT
machine" was never more resolute, re-
scurceful and dashing.
Naturally, she was also a suffragist.
In that connection she was the heroine
Of one Of the most joyous traditions Of
Vassar. Under President Taylor votes
for women" was forbidden subject Of
debate there. But IneZ outwitted him.
She passed word around, Meet me in
the graveyard" And there, among the
tombs, like the girls at luncheon at old
st. Paul's, the Vassar undergraduates
assembled and were organized into a
large, enthusiastic and aggressive
"Votes for Women" club.
She was a member and active worker
not only in the Women's Trade Union
League, but also in the Woman's Suf-
frage Party of New York, the Woman's
Social and Political Union of England
the Weman's Political Union, the Po-
litical Equality League, the College
Equal Suffrage League, the State and
National Woman Suffrage associations,
the Fabian Society OF England, the As
ISOLATION FOR the Advancement of the
Colored People and the Peace Society.
Politically, she was set down IA So
cialist.
Married in London
Inez was married in London in July,
1918, TO Eugen Boissevain. OF Amster-
dam, thus adding another touch 70 her
cosmopolitanism. That made her, un-
der the law, no longer an American
citizen. but a Dutch subject. But when
Inez came back TO New York q bride
and was afrectionately greeted By her
old friends as "Dutchy." she confidently
responded: ut won't be for long. I'm
going to get him naturalized right
away, quick" And she did.
After her marriage she became a
more active and. aggressive suifragist
and general radical reformer than ever.
She was frequent and effective public
speaker, and in such activities she es-
pecially excelled in the gentle art Of
"heckllng the hecklers." Last year she
organized strong campaign against
capital punishment, though she did not
succeed in converting the Governor TO
her views.
Went Abroad for The Tribune
She then went abroad 20 represent
The Tribune as war correspondent in
Italy, and sent 10 this paper series
OF letters. the unconventional and ami
mated style of which gained for them
wide attention and evoked no little
comment A few months after her re-
turn 70 America she Joined Henry
Ford's peace expedition. and went with
IL as far as Stockholm. But there she
quit il because IL was not being con-
Quoted on q sufficiently democratic
basis.
More recently she interested herself
in the case Of Stielow. the condemned
murderer who made so persistent tight
for life, and then. with the oncoming
OF the Presidential campaign. she set
out TO fight Woodrow Wilson. Eariy
last month she set out or a "whirl-
wind tour" of spseehmaAng IN the
West. all the way from Lake Michigan
% the Pacific Ocean. Three weeks
later she was at Los Angeles. worn out
with strenuous extrtion and suffering
from trouble with her teeth and also
her tonsils.