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Nellie Bly Now A Wife

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Day
16
Month
April
Year
1895
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Public Domain
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New York, April 15. - The morning Advertiser says: Nellie Bly, who is one oL the bost known newspaper woinen in the country, is no longer Miss Elizabeth Cochran. She is now Mrs. Robert Seainan. Her husband is one of the directora of the Merchants' Exehange National bank and a niulti-millionaire. He lives at 15 West Thirty-seventh street, and is nearly 70 years old. The marriage occurred on April 5, at the rectory of the church of tho Epiphany, in Ashland avenue, Chicago. Rey. Theodore M. Morrison performed the oeroniony. Tho coutraeting partios had met at a dinner in the Auditorium hotel two weeks before, and conceived an instant attachment. Mrs. tíeaman was interviewed by a reporter, and said: "I cannot deny tho rumor I was married to Mr. Seaman in Chicago líe left the following day for New York. Owing to my business affairs and to his we both Jesirod to keep it secret for a time. It is his wish, as soon as arrangemeuts are completed, to make a formal announcement of the wedding. Sickness in my own family also caused us to delay its publication." Miss Cochran did her first newspaper work on the Pittsburg Dispatch when she was 15 years old. She has been engaged in similar work in New York for abouC eight years and has becoiue famous for the sensational character of her contributions to newspaper literatura. One of lier first exploits was to feign insanity and get herself incarcorated in the Blackwells island asylum for the purpose of describing her experiences. Her trip around the world in seventy-two days occurred in 1890.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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