page_title: Sallie Joy White
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Sallie Joy White / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Sallie Joy White
context_page_description: Sallie Joy White was an American journalist. In 1870 she became the first woman staff reporter on a Boston newspaper when she was hired by the Boston Post, and she continued to write for local newspapers until her death in 1909. She co-founded the New England Woman's Press Association, and was an officer in several national press groups.
  White was a strong supporter of women's suffrage and women's education. In addition to her regular work as a journalist, she wrote and lectured on the subject of career paths for women. Having had a valuable mentor in suffragist Mary A. Livermore, she in turn mentored countless younger women over the course of her long career.
context_section_description: She married musician Henry K. White, Jr. in 1874 and quit her job at the Post. The couple had two daughters, Bessie and Grace. In 1879, shortly after the birth of their second daughter, Henry moved to California, leaving Sallie to support herself and the children. Her widowed mother came to live with her and care for the children while she worked. White later dedicated her book, Housekeepers and Home-makers, to her mother, "the best housekeeper and the dearest home-maker I ever knew."
  She died of anemia at her home in Dedham, Massachusetts, on March 25, 1909, after a long illness. Many of her newspaper colleagues attended her funeral service in Forest Hills, including several Boston Herald associates who served as pallbearers. Among those representing the New England Woman's Press Association were civil rights leader Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin and NEWPA co-founder Helen M. Winslow.
caption: Sallie Joy White (1897)
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