Polly Pry
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1857
Polly Pry | |
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| Born | Leonel Campbell Ross O'Bryan 1857 |
| Died | July 16, 1938 (aged 80–81) |
| Occupation | Reporter |
| Known for | Connection to the case of Alfred Packer |
Leonel Campbell Ross O'Bryan (1857–16 July 1938), known under the pen name Polly Pry, was a controversial reporter for The Denver Post and later as a freelancer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is best known for her connection to the case of Alfred Packer as an investigative reporter.[1][2]
Pry was born to a wealthy family in 1857. Aged fifteen, she eloped to Mexico with a railroad industrialist named George Anthony. Five years later, Pry left Anthony and moved to New York to become a reporter.[3] While initially being rejected by The New York Times, she succeeded in getting a trial assignment on a recent slum fire. The article she then produced was good enough to earn her a full time job there.[4]
In 1898, Pry was hired by Frederick Bonfils for the Denver Post, becoming the paper's first female reporter. She was a member of the Denver Woman's Press Club.[5]
