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Dec 06, 1815 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Died on 22 Jul 1884 (aged 68)
American journalist
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About Jane Swisshelm
- Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm (December 6, 1815 – July 22, 1884) was an American journalist, publisher, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate.
- She was one of the first women journalists hired by Horace Greeley at his New York Tribune.
- She was active as a writer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and as a publisher and editor in St.
- Cloud, Minnesota, where she founded a string of newspapers and regularly wrote for them. While working for the federal government in Washington, D.C., during the administration of President Andrew Johnson, Swisshelm founded her last newspaper, Reconstructionist.
- Her published criticism of Johnson led to her losing her job and the closing of the paper.
- She published her autobiography in 1881.
