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Nellie
Bly
 Nellie Bly was born on May 5, 1864, named Elizabeth Jane Cochran. She was born in Apollo, Pennsylvania. When she was 25 she traveled around the world in 72 days. Her trip inspired a board game and a song. She also woman's revolutionized journalism, she had a pen name, Nellie Bly, that she is better known by. Her first journalistic experience was writing a letter in response of an article she had read. They were interested in how well written her letter was, so they asked her to come to their office. She then became a journalist for their Newspaper, John Pulitzer's New York World. She was a hard-hitting newswoman that truly went "behind the scenes." She was considered the best journalist in America by the New York Journal. She retired from her journalism career when she got married to Robert Seamen, she didn't stay out of business for long though. 10 years after her marriage she decided to start a business that saved falling businesses. She promoted physical activity in the places she saved. For 10 years managed two multi-million dollar companies. She was on a vacation in Europe when something unexpected happened. World war I broke out in the middle of her vacation! She used her reporter skills to report what was happening on the eastern coast. She died in 1922.
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