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][3]

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

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.[4]

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.[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 Boisots had three children.[3]

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.[5]

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]

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.[9]

References
  1. Morris, Henry C. (1902). The history of the First national bank of Chicago, preceded by some account of early banking in the United States, especially in the West and at Chicago. Chicago, R. R. Donnelley & sons company. p. 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. MacGrath, Hyland (1902). Encyclopaedia of Biography of Illinois, Volume 3. Century publishing and engraving Company. p. 112.
  4. "The Swiss Settlement of Vevay, Indiana: The settlers, their relatives, their associates". Rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved April 27, 2014.
  5. The Book of Chicagoans. A. N. Marquis & Company, Chicago, 1905. Retrieved April 30, 2014.
  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. "Obituaries". The Pasadena Post. Pasadena, California. 1941-02-02. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
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