Ida Tarbell (Journalist) - Age, Birthday, Bio, Facts, Family, Net Worth, Height & More

Ida Minerva Tarbell is an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer and lecturer. She was one of the leading journalists of the progressive era in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was a pioneer in the field of investigative journalism. Born in Pennsylvania at the start of the oil boom, Tarbell is best known for his 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company. The book was published in a series of articles in the McClure Journal from 1902. to 1904. It has been called "the masterpiece of investigative journalism" by historian J. North Conway, as well as "the most influential business book ever published in the United States" by historian Daniel Yergin. This work would help eliminate Standard Oil's monopoly and help introduce the 1906 Hepburn Act, the Mann-Elkins Act, the creation of the Federal Trade Commission and the Clayton Antitrust Act. Tarbell has also written a number of biographies throughout his 64-year career.

Born	Ida Minerva Tarbell, November 5, 1857, Hatch Hollow, Amity Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania, US
Died	January 6, 1944, Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
Occupation	Teacher, writer and journalist
Notable works	The History of the Standard Oil Company

About Ida Tarbell

Journalist Ida Tarbell was born in Amity, Pennsylvania, United States on November 5, 1857. She dies at the age of 86, on January 6, 1944.

Her series of exposés on Standard Oil resulted in the business being broken up by the Supreme Court.

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Ida Tarbell before becoming famous

Ida Tarbell was born in the Zodiac sign Scorpio (The Scorpion), and 1857 is also the year of Serpent (蛇) in the Chinese Zodiac.

She took a me-against-the-world attitude to McClure's magazine, where she began examining big business, as one of the only women in her Allegeny College graduating class.

Achievement of Ida Tarbell

She combed through reams of Rockefeller company papers, news clippings, and court testimony to discover the shady tactics they employed during their rise to power.

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Her upbringing in an oil family among the derricks of northwest Pennsylvania provided her with the background she needed to understand the Rockefellers' business operations.

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President ^{US President}Theodore Roosevelt would subsequently criticize her generation's muckraking style of investigative reporting.

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