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]
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]
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.
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