Ida
Minerva
Tarbell
Born in Hatch Hollow, Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Franklin Sumner Tarbell Sr
and Ester Ann (McCullough) Tarbell
Mother of
[private child (1940s - unknown)]
Died
at age 86
in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 30 Oct 2009
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Biography
Ida Tarbell is Notable.
Ida was a Journalist
Ida Tarbell was one of the first and most influential women in the history of journalism.
Ida was born on November 5th, 1857 in Hatch Hollow, Pennsylvania. She grew up with two brothers in a house in Titusville, Pennsylvania.
- "A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it"- Ida Tarbell
Since she was quite bright, childhood education wasn't a problem for her. She attended Allegheny College. She graduated from college in 1880 with a bachelors degree and got her masters in 1883.
In 1894 a magazine called McClure's hired her as a writer. Afterward she started her career in journalism.
In 1902, Tarbell was assigned to investigate oil companies. She released a 657 page summary in 1904 named "History of Standard Oil Company". It is probably her most famous work.
The result of this was a public attack against Standard Oil. Even before this, people disliked Standard Oil. In 1911, Standard Oil shut down due to the ruckus caused by the book. It was broken down into 34 companies.
Some of her other books include:
- "Life of Abraham Lincoln" - 1900
- "The Business of Being a Woman" - 1912
- "The Ways of Women" - 1915
- "Biography of Elbert H. Gary" - 1925
- "Owen D. Young" - 1932
And many others.
She left McClure's and purchased American Magazine wit h Lincoln Steffens and Stannard Baker. They were notoriously called "muckrakers" by Teddy Roosevelt.
She purchased a farm in Easton, Connecticut in 1906 as a summer home and lived there full-time from the mid-1910s until her death in 1944 [1].
She was posthumously inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2000 [2]. The US Postal Service issued a stamp in her honor in 2002 [3].
Sources
- ↑ Bruce Nelson, "Twin Oaks – Home on the Tarbell Farm," The Historical Society of Easton, March 17, 2019.
- ↑ "Ida Tarbell, National Women's Hall of Fame
- ↑ "Ida M. Tarbell," Smithsonian National Postal Museum. September 14, 2002.
- "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 17 June 2022, 01:56), entry for Ida Minerva Tarbell (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:KHJB-4PM ); contributed by various users.
- "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q5SN-NCJS : 18 July 2020), Miss Ida Minerva Tarbell, 1944.
See Also:
- Wikipedia: Ida Tarbell
- Wikidata: Item Q271712, en:Wikipedia
- Find A Grave: Memorial #1017
- "Ida Tarbell, Investigative Journalist, Takes Down John D. Rockefeller," New England Historical Society.
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She is remember as one of the greatest journalists of her time period. In the year 2000, she was nominated into the National Women's Hall of Fame. And in 2002, she was put on a U.S. postage stamp.