Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Breakfast with Mom. Today I want to tell you about a female journalist from the mid- 19th century. Nellie Bly, born Elizabeth Jane Cochran on May 5, 1864, in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania to Michael Cochran and Mary Jane Kennedy. She was one of 15 children in her family, and her father was a wealthy landowner and businessman. Bly attended boarding school for a time but had to return home due to financial difficulties after her fath...