Born in a log home in Hatch Hollow, northwestern Pennsylvania, on November 5, 1857, Ida Minerva Tarbell grew up amid the derricks of the Oil Region. Her father, Frank Tarbell, built wooden oil ...

It is worth remembering that the journalist who pioneered investigative reporting at the turn of the 20 th century grew up wanting to be a scientist. Born in Western Pennsylvania in 1857, Ida ...

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