Emile Kellogg Boisot

Emile Kellogg Boisot (February 26, 1859 – February 1, 1941) was President of the First Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago, Illinois.[1] He was vice president of the Chicago First National Bank and director of a number of corporations. [2]

Emile Kellogg Boisot
Portrait of Emile K. Boisot, ca. 1920
BornFebruary 26, 1859
Dubuque, Iowa
Died1 February 1941(1941-02-01) (aged 81)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationBanker

Early life
Father, Louis Daniel Boisot (1823-1900)

Emile Kellogg Boisot was born in Dubuque, Iowa on February 26, 1859. He was the son of Louis Daniel Boisot (1823-1900) and Albertina Bush (1825-1889). He is a direct descendant of Jean-Baptiste Boisot who was a French abbot, bibliophile, and scholar.[3]

He was educated in the public and high schools of Dubuque, Iowa. His brother, Louis Boisot, Jr.(1856-1933), was a successful lawyer and vice-president of the First Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago. Louis wrote two books, “By-laws of Private Corporations” in 1892 and “Treatise on Mechanics' Liens” in 1897.[4]

In 1908, Boisot built a large two-story house on the block of 6th Avenue in La Grange, Illinois. In 1915, Henry Charles Lytton sold the Hillcroft English summer cottage on Lake Geneva, Wisconsin to Emile K. Boisot. Five years later, Boisot sold it to Arthur Leath of Elgin, who owned a chain of furniture stores. It is believed that the property acquired the name Hillcroft during this time. The house is unique in that it has a restored carriage house, gatehouse, greenhouse, and ice house. The Lake Geneva area, at this time, was an exclusive resort for wealthy Chicagoans.[5]

Marriage and children
Wife, Lilly (Moseman) Reid Boisot (1860-1939)

On November 4, 1891, Boisot married Lilly R. Moseman (1860-1939) in Chicago, Illinois.[6] She had been married before to a George Moseman.

The Boisot's had three children:

  • Louis Marston Boisot (1892-1941) Fought in World War I; Created patent GB383767A for a Golf practice device.
  • Marion Boisot (1897-1990)
  • Elizabeth Boisot (1899-1903)

Professional life

In 1875, Boisot was employed by the German Bank at Dubuque, where he remained for three years.

First National Bank

In 1878, Boisot moved to Chicago, Illinois where he entered the bond department of the First National Bank. The First National Bank of Chicago became the First Chicago Bank, which merged into Bank One Corporation and later the Chase Bank.[4]

On January 1, 1897, Boisot was promoted manager of the Foreign Exchange and Bond Department at the First National Bank of Chicago. In 1904, he was appointed vice president and manager of the bank. He was director of three other Chicago banks and trustee of Rollins College. He was a member of the Chicago Stock Exchange and the Republican Party (United States).

In December 1915, Boisot was elected president of the First Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago that provided savings accounts to individual customers.[7] First Trust and Savings Bank merged with the Union Trust Company in 1928 to become the First Union Trust and Savings Bank.[8]

Later life
Emile Kellogg Boisot Bookplate

In 1924, Boisot moved to a large home at 585 Bellefontaine St. in Pasadena, California. The house was designed in 1912 by Frederick C. Grable and Clarence A. Austin of the well known design firm, Grable & Austin who are accredited to building over seventy homes in the Pasadena area.

Boisot was a member of the Valley Hunt Club, Midwick Country Club, and the Annandale Golf Club in Pasadena.[2]

On February 19, 1925, Boisot was among the 68 charter members of the Monterey Peninsula Country Club.[9]

They had a summer home in Carmel Valley, California, which is where his daughter Marion B. Sanford lived. On August 27, 1939, his wife, Lilly Reid Boisot, died in Carmel, California.

Death

On February 1, 1941, Boisot died at his home in Pasadena, California, after a short illness. He was 81 years old.[2] Services were held at the Wee Kirk o' the Heather chapel at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale), California.[10]

See also

References
  1. The history of the First National Bank of Chicago, pg 174.
  2. Special to The New York Times (1941-02-04). "EMILE KELLOGG BOISOT; Retired President of a Chicago Bank Dies in Pasaderia at 81". The New York Times. New York. p. 17. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  3. "The Swiss Settlement of Vevay, Indiana: The settlers, their relatives, their associates". Rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved April 27, 2014.
  4. The Book of Chicagoans. A. N. Marquis & Company, Chicago, 1905. Retrieved April 30, 2014.
  5. Hillcroft’s Undivided History. At The Lake Magazine. May 24, 2017. Retrieved October 14, 2017.
  6. "Weddings Of The Week". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. 1891-11-08.
  7. The Bankers Magazine, Volume XCI. 253 Broadway, New York: The Bankers Publishing Co. 1915. p. 884. Retrieved 2014-04-13.CS1 maint: location (link)
  8. "Bank One Corporation History". FundingUniverse.com. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
  9. Durein, Ted (1975). The First Fity Years 1925-1975. California: Monterey Peninsula County Club. p. 14.
  10. "Obituaries". The Pasadena Post. Pasadena, California. 1941-02-02. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
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