illiam Sirwell of Kittanning, Emma Goldman, Susan B.Anthony, Eugene Debs, prizefighters John L. Sullivan and Jack Dempsey. She was the author offour books. She has been honored by the New York Press club, the PennsylvaniaNewspaper Hall of Fame, the Ford City Area Hall of Fame and with a monument inCochran's Mills. She owned and operated factories as a model of social welfare for her1.500 employees. She provided them with health and day care, gymnasiums andlibraries. She championed the cause of the mentally ill, the unemployed, theworking poor, the homeless, the widowed, the orphaned, and the aged and infirm. Despite her phenomenal achievements, Bly has been little more than afootnote in journalism history. Over the years many abbreviated orfictionalized accounts of her life have been published for children, inspiringcountless young women to seek journalistic careers....
