MRS. JANE GRAY SWISSHELM
Title: A century and a half of Pittsburg and her people / by John Newton Boucher ; illustrated. Vol. 2.
Author: Boucher, John Newton, 1854-1933.
Pg. 436
MRS. JANE GRAY SWISSHELM was certainly the greatest literary figure of Western Pennsylvania among women.The story of her life is thrillingly related by herself in her book, “Half a Century.”As a newspaper writer she was always aggressive, bold, forceful and typical.She was one of the pioneer Abolitionists, one of the foremost and most indomitable champions of the Woman’s Suffrage movement and at one time a publisher of a newspaper.The well known incompatability between herself and husband after years of unhappiness resulted in the divorce which left her free to follow out her ideas and inclinations.