Nellie Bly

By mickey7

  • Born

  • Father Dies

  • Enrolls at Indiana State Normal School

  • Family moves to Pittsburg

  • Marries Robert Livingston Seaman

  • Hired at Pittsburg Dispatch

    Takes pen name "Nellie Bly"

  • World asks if she'd go into a New York Assylum

  • Ten Days in a Mad-House appears in New York World

  • Period: to

    Travels around the world

    Travles 21,740 miles in 72 days

  • Reports on the Pullman Strike

    for the New York World

  • Robert Seaman Dies

    becomes owner of iron clad manufacturing

  • Died age 57