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Full Name: Nellie Bly
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(1864-1922) Writer, journalist. Nellie Bly was the pseudonym used by Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman. She lived at the Hotel McAlpin in Manhattan, New York, and died in New York City.
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1922 New York County
Nellie Bly lived in Manhattan, New York, and died there in 1922. 
1864 (Unknown) County
Elizabeth Jane Cochran was born in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania, in 1864. She later changed her surname to Cochrane. 
1890 (Unknown) County
Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
 
1887 (Unknown) County
Ten Days in a Mad House
 
1922 Bronx County
Nellie Bly is buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.  
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