Charles Boissevain (28 October 1842 – 5 May 1927) was a journalist, editor and part-owner of the Amsterdam Algemeen Handelsblad, a leading newspaper of the time.

He published a series of articles on the war, collected as and republished in English translation as The Struggle of the Dutch Republics: A Great Crime.

[3] In 1881, Boissevain paid a visit to the United States and published his impressions in a series of articles in the Handelsblad, afterward republished in book form as From the North to the South.

Eugen Jan became an importer of coffee from Java and married two notable 20th Century American women: suffragist Inez Milholland, for whom he moved to New York, and Pulitzer-prizewinning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Robert emigrated to Canada, as did Olga, who married Dutch sea captain and explorer Abraham Jacob van Stockum.