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- Wikipedia.com
Louise Bryant
Early life
Bryant was born Anna Louisa Mohan in San Francisco, California. Herfather, Hugh Mohan was a coal miner from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, whomade his way west with the Railroad crews. Her mother remarriedSheridan Bryant and Louise took her stepfather's name. The familymoved to Nevada where Louise was a student at the University ofNevada. She later moved to the University of Oregon in Eugene. Hersenior thesis was about the Modoc Indian War of Southern Oregon andwas completed in 1908. Bryant returned to San Francisco to become ajournalist after graduation but was soon nudged, for financialreasons, to teach "school" in Salinas, California in her words "in aremote area, forty miles from a train station". She also wrote that"Mexicans and Spaniards are my students."[2] She moved back to Oregonand became involved with the Suffrage Movement in Portland, worked forthe Spectator, and married Paul Trullinger.
(Internet extraction provided by David H. Drollinger 3 Feb 2012)
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