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Household of Eugen Jan Boissevain

(1) He is married to Inez Milholland.

They got married on July 14, 1913 at Londen, he was 33 years old.


(2) He is married to Edna St. Vincent Millay.

They got married July 1923 at New York, he was 43 years old.


Notes about Eugen Jan Boissevain

Eugen Jan Boissevain, geb. Amsterdam 20 mei 1880, [koopman te New York], † Boston (Massachusetts) 29 aug. 1949, tr. 1e Londen 14 juli 1913 Inez Milholland, B.A., L.L.B., geb. New York 6 aug. 1886, voorvechtster vrouwenkiesrecht, † Los Angeles (Californië) 25 nov. 1916, dr. van John W. en Jean Torrey; tr. 2e New York juli 1923 Edna St. Vincent Millay, B.A., geb. Rockland (Maine) 22 febr. 1892, dichteres, † Austerlitz (New York) 19 okt. 1950, dr. van Henry Tolman Millay en Cora Buzzell.

This quote, from Alyse Powers, one of his second wife's former lovers, describes Eugen:

"Handsome, reckless, mettlesome as a stallion breathing the first morning air, he would laugh at himself, indeed laugh at everything, with a laugh that scattered melancholy as the wind scatters the petals of the fading poppy...One day his house would be that of a citizen of the world, with a French butler to wait on the table and everything done with the greatest bienséance, the next the servants would have as mysteriously disappeared as bees from a deserted hive, and he would be out in the kitchen washing the dishes and whistling a haunting Slavic melody, as light-hearted as a troubadour. He had the gift of the aristocrat and could adapt himself to all circumstances ... his blood was testy, adventurous, quixotic, and he faced life as an eagle faces its flight."

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Eugen Jan Boissevain

Gideon Jeremie Boissevain
1796-1875
Maria van Heukelom
1801-1866
Hercules Henry Graves MacDonnell
1819-1900
Moylan Emily Ann
1822-1883

Eugen Jan Boissevain
1880-1949

Eugen Jan Boissevain

(1) 1913

Inez Milholland
1886-1916

(2) 1923

Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892-1950


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    Birthday May 20, 1880

    • The temperature on May 20, 1880 was about 11.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1880: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
      • January 27 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp.
      • February 13 » Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission.
      • May 11 » Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California.
      • June 24 » First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
      • June 28 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
      • December 16 » Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and the British Empire.

    Day of marriage July 14, 1913

    • The temperature on July 14, 1913 was between 12.9 °C and 26.7 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 19.4 mm of rain. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1913: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
      • February 2 » Grand Central Terminal is opened in New York City.
      • February 5 » Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
      • March 22 » Mystic Phan Xích Long, the self-proclaimed Emperor of Vietnam, was arrested for organising a revolt against the colonial rule of French Indochina, which was nevertheless carried out by his supporters the following day.
      • July 3 » Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.
      • July 12 » Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin; the siege is later called off when the war ends.
      • October 10 » U.S. President Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal.

    Day of death August 29, 1949

    • The temperature on August 29, 1949 was between 12.2 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
    • In the year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
      • February 15 » Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
      • March 25 » More than 92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia.
      • June 8 » George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
      • June 14 » Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134km (83mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space.
      • August 5 » In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.
      • August 31 » The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece in Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War.
    

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