Facts about Nellie Bly
Impressed with her earnestness and spirit, he asked her to join the paper and christened her with the pen name, Nellie Bly, taken from the title of a popular song written by Stephen Foster.
Nellie Bly died of pneumonia at St. Mark's Hospital in New York City in 1922, at age 57.
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Nellie Bly married millionaire manufacturer Robert Seaman in 1894, who at age 72, was 44 years her senior.