The Resume

(May 5, 1864-January 27, 1922)
Born in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania
Birth name was Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Reporter for the Pittsburgh Dispatch (1880-87) and New York World (1887-94)
Wrote 'Ten Days in a Madhouse' (1887)
Inspired by Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg, circumnavigated the globe in 72 days (1889-90)

Why she might be annoying:

As a teenager, she added an 'e' to Cochran to make her name more sophisticated.
Her time for traveling around the world was beaten in only a few months.
She retired from journalism to marry a millionaire 42 years her senior (1894).
She tried running his companies after his death, but went bankrupt and had to return to reporting (1905).

Why she might not be annoying:

When the Pittsburgh Dispatch assigned her the tradition women's topics of fashion and society, she took the initiative to travel to Mexico and serve as a foreign correspondent.
She smuggled out a suitcase of notes about government corruption by telling Mexican border agents that the case contained ladies' 'unmentionables.'
She faked insanity to be admitted to the asylum on Blackwell Island; her reports of neglect and brutality forced needed reforms.
While running her late husband's companies she patented a steel barrel that was the model for 55-gallon drums that are still in use.

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Bankruptcy
• Born on Cinco de Mayo [May 5th] (Ranked: 1864)
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 12]
• Google Modified Its Logo For My Birthday (Google Doodles)
• I am on a U.S. Postage Stamp [A-C]
• I Died in 1922 (Ranked: 57)
• I Had Pneumonia
• I Retired, Just Kidding
• I'm Buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx
• In Town for The World's Fair at the Columbian Exposition [1893-Chicago]
• Inventors
• Look at My Book Cover
• Man's World
• My Spouse is at Least Ten Years Older than Me
• Profiles 23001-23250 (Ranked: 23086)
• Subjects of 'Drunk History'

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 11 Votes: 72.73% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 17 Votes: 64.71% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 10 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 17 Votes: 64.71% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 31 Votes: 51.61% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 31 Votes: 32.26% Annoying