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suspicious, sure that she had married him for his money. One magazine even wondered if it was an example of her "stunt reporting" in which Bly would pretend to be married and then write about it. After their marriage, they resided in his home on West 37th Street in New York City. In 1896, they traveled to Europe, returning to New York in 1899 to take care of problems with his business.
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Seaman's business prospered during his lifetime and for a number of years after his death under his wife's management. At the 1901 Pan-American
Exposition, Iron Clad factories were promoted as being, "Owned exclusively by Nellie Bly – the only woman in the world personally managing industries of such
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on the part of employees destroyed the company. At its peak, Iron Clad employed 1,500 and could produce 1,000 steel barrels daily, but then charges of fraud led to bitterly contested bankruptcy proceedings, beginning in 1911. The Iron Clad
Manufacturing Company eventually succumbed to debt, and Bly
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In March 1895, Seaman met journalist
Elizabeth Jane Cochran, better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, at a dinner party, or on a train, and on April 5, 1895 married her. An article announcing their marriage called him one of the most carefully dressed men in New York. Seaman's loved ones were
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William and Ellen Seaman, Robert made his fortune in the wholesale grocery business and in 1869 started the Ironclad Manufacturing Company, manufacturing cans for shipping milk on trains, riveted boilers, tanks, and “The Most Durable Enameled Kitchen Ware Made.”
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