[1] Born around 1875 in Pittsburg Hill, Illinois, she was the daughter of Michael Marion of Ireland and Marie Helene Brugiere.
[2] She covered the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, where "she had the advantage of speaking French, and she interviewed the envoys of foreign countries which sent exhibits and had buildings in Forest Park.
Women are individual human creatures and as such, like men, are entitled to all that life holds for them of beauty, goodness, knowledge and pleasurable experience.She continued work for the Post-Dispatch on a part-time basis until 1913, when she went to the Globe-Democrat.
[1] During the later part of her life she also collected news for radio station WTMV and wrote a column for the East St. Louis Journal.
[4] At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 she met Robert J. Boylan, a reporter for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat (later city editor), and they married in 1906.