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Charles Boissevain
Editor, Algemeen Handelsblad (Amsterdam). Boissevain Family Reunion, Amsterdam, 2011
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Father of Inez Milholland Boissevain.
Father-in-law of Eugen Boissevain.
Took on Platt Machine, won in 1894-95.
Editor, Labor Manager, NY Tribune.
CEO of Batchellor Pneumatic Tube Company. First Treasurer of the NAACP.
Last of the Lincoln Republicans.
| Inez Milholland Boissevain
American suffragist, wife of Eugen Boissevain (son of Charles). Her painting in DC restored 2011.
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| Willem Jacob van Stockum
Son of Olga Boissevain and Bram van Stockum. Brother of Hilda van Stockum. Large Gold medalist, Mathematics, Trinity, Dublin. Ph.D., University of Ediburgh. Appointed to post at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, spring 1939. Taught at Toronto and Univ of Maryland until WWII broke out. Time Travel Pioneer. Pilot of RAF Halifax Bomber, shot down over Laval, France, while on a post-D-Day mission, June 10, 1944.
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Updated February 28, 2012
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