Irish American Nellie Bly was a pioneering investigative ... Her mother moved the family to Pittsburgh in 1880. Bly found her calling at an early age after responding to a column entitled ...

But Annie Laurie would not settle for life on the society page. Like Nellie Bly before her, Laurie discovered that shocking stories sold papers and brought acclaim. Disguised as an indigent ...

The two settled upon Nellie Bly ... investigative journalism. Bly met industrialist Robert Seaman in 1895 and married him a few days later, leaving the newspaper life behind.

After her divorce, Nellie Bly's mother Mary Jane took her daughter to Allegheny City, an unincorporated part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where two of her sons were living. By that time the city ...