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          Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm (December 6, – July 22, ) was an American Radical Republican journalist, publisher, abolitionist, and women's rights....

          Jane Grey Cannon was born in Pennsylvania in , and her young life was marked by tragedy.

        1. Jane Grey Cannon was born in Pennsylvania in , and her young life was marked by tragedy.
        2. In this biography, Hoffert shows how Jane Grey Swisshelm (), a feminist, abolitionist, journalist, and newspaper editor, was an unconventionally.
        3. Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm (December 6, – July 22, ) was an American Radical Republican journalist, publisher, abolitionist, and women's rights.
        4. She was an unbelievably bold woman and never shied away from telling people what she thought of slavery.
        5. Jane Grey Swisshelm was a newspaper journalist and publisher, abolitionist and women's rights advocate.

          6. Jane Swisshelm

          American journalist, publisher, abolitionist, women's rights advocate

          Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm (December 6, 1815 – July 22, 1884) was an American Radical Republican journalist, publisher, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate.

          She was one of America's first female journalists hired by Horace Greeley at his New York Tribune.[1] She was active as a writer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and as a publisher and editor in St. Cloud, Minnesota.

          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.

          Early life and education

          Swisshelm was born Jane Grey Cannon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., one of several children of Mary (Scott) and Thomas Cannon, both of whom were Presb