Gideon Louis Boissevain
Appearance
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Gideon Louis Boissevain (October 4, 1870 - April 25, 1924) was president of the Hilliard Hotel Company and on the board of directors for the Knickerbocker Trust Company.[1][2][3]
Biography
[edit]He was born on October 4, 1870, in Amsterdam to Johannes Boissevain and Johanna Juliane Hoek.[1]
He married Arabella Helen Magee in 1899. She was the daughter Emma S. and George J. Magee.[4][5]
In 1906 their house in New Castle, New York, was robbed and $10,000 worth of jewelry was taken.[6][7]
He died on April 25, 1924, in Manhattan.[1]
He was buried on Berkeley Memorial Cemetery in Middletown, Rhode Island.
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ a b c "G. Louis Boissevain Dead In New York". Boston Daily Globe. April 27, 1924. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
- ^ "Knickerbocker Trust Co. Directors". New York Times. January 10, 1903. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
- ^ "Mrs. Jon Boissevain Wins A Paris Divorce. New Yorker, a Maryland Carroll, Is Among Three Americans to Receive Decrees". Associated Press in the New York Times. September 28, 1930. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
- ^ "Mrs. Arabelle Boissevain. Widow of Former Head of Hilliard Hotel Co. Dies in Paris". New York Times. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
- ^ "Mrs. G. Louis Boissevain (ca. 1875-1928)". New-York Historical Society. June 9, 1928. Retrieved 2013-11-30.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Boissevain Home Robbed. Police Think Some One in Banker's Household Stole His Valuables". New York Times. October 16, 1906. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
- ^ "Detective Persuaded Boissevain Butler to Confide in Him. Telling the Dishonest Servant He Would Help to Dispose of the Jewelry He Stole". New York Times. November 11, 1906. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
External links
[edit] Media related to Gideon Louis Boissevain at Wikimedia Commons