Robert Livingston Seaman (1822 – March 11, 1904) was an American millionaire

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 industrialist who was the husband of investigative journalist Elizabeth Cochran (better known as Nellie Bly

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Nellie Bly was the pen name of American pioneer female journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran. She remains notable for two feats: a record-breaking trip around the world in emulation of Jules Verne's character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she faked insanity to study a mental institution from...

), whom he married in 1895 in Chicago

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Born in Catskill

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, Greene County, New York

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 to William and Ellen Seaman, he owned the Ironclad Manufacturing Company, which prospered during his lifetime and for a number of years after his death under his wife's management. Later, however, embezzlement

Embezzlement

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 on the part of employees destroyed the company and his wife had to return to journalism.