Around 1874, she moved to Caddo, in what was then Indiana Territory and is now Oklahoma and began working as an editor on the Oklahoma Star.[1] She also wrote for the paper under the pen name "Urania".[2] In December 1874, she married Granville McPherson, then the newspaper's chief editor.[1] Around 1876, the couple split, and sometime between 1878 and 1880, Granville moved to Texas and remarried.[1][3]
McPherson remained in Caddo, where she founded a new newspaper, the Caddo International News, making her the first woman publisher of a newspaper in Oklahoma. Two of her sons did the printing for her.[1]
In 1877, McPherson moved across the Red River to Whitesboro, Texas, where she founded a weekly newspaper, the Whitesboro Democrat.[1] It was the first newspaper in Texas published by a woman.[1] It subsequently moved to Sherman, Texas and became a daily under the name Sherman Democrat in 1879.[1][2][4]
In 1881, she became one of the first three women to join the State Press Association of Texas and was elected corresponding secretary.[1][5] She served as a delegate to the World's Press Association convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1886.[1]
In 1886, she was appointed postmaster of Sherman, a position she held for four years.[1]
McPherson wrote for other periodicals as well as her own newspapers, contributing to Cosmopolitan magazine and Youth's Companion, among others.[2] In 1892, she published a collection of her own verse entitled Reullura.[1]
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