Rheta Childe Dorr

(1866-1948) born in Omaha. Journalist and feminist, reporter and war correspondent for New York Evening Mail from 1915 to 1918, one of the first women to be a newspaper reporter. The topics of the her stories, articles and books reveal a devotion to working women and children. Consult American National Biography, Vol 6 (1999) 757-759.

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