Jones, Florence Lee, 1910-1985

Journalist Florence Lee Jones Cahlan was born in 1910 in Missouri. She received a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1933, and then she moved to Nevada to be closer to her family, where she became a reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. In 1940, she married Review-Journal managing editor John Cahlan. In 1953, she left the Review-Journal and became a freelance writer and political consultant. In 1963, she rejoined the newspaper, and she wrote a weekly column about Las Vegas history, which was enlarged into a book titled Water: A History of Las Vegas.

Cahlan was active in the Las Vegas area: she was a founding member of the local Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Junior League service organizations. She was also the first woman to be on the Nevada State Museum Board of Trustees. She died in 1985.

Source:

Green, Michael. “Florence Lee Jones Cahlan,” Online Nevada Encyclopedia. February 4, 2009. http://www.onlinenevada.org/articles/florence-lee-jones-cahlan