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 ...
A sensation has been caused in Cleveland by John D. Rockefeller's action in replying in print to the statements of Miss Ida Tarbell. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...
"I was not a writer, and I knew it," Ida Tarbell declared once, recalling her beginnings in journalism. "I knew I never should be one in the high sense which I then and still more now give to ...