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	Ida M. Tarbell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5, 1857–January 6, 1944) was an American author and journalist, known as one of the leading muckrakers.
		Tarbell was born in Erie County, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Pennsylvania Republicans.
		Tarbell became acquainted with Henry H. Rogers, who by then was the most senior and powerful director of Standard Oil, through his friend, Mark Twain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ida_Tarbell (565 words)

	Ida Minerva Tarbell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ida Minerva Tarbell was born in Erie County, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Franklin and Esther Tarbell.
		Tarbell was scrupulously fair to her subjects, and commented that there was much that was admirable about both Standard and Rockefeller: the company was well managed and efficient, and Rockefeller was undoubtedly a great man. The sting comes in the book’s tail, at the end of volume 2 when she sums up her criticisms:
		Despite her muckraker image, Tarbell was not anti-business; rather, she called for business to be conducted in a fair and ethical manner.
	www.thoemmes.com /encyclopedia/tarbell.htm (1029 words)

	American Experience \| The Rockefellers \| People & Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tarbell’s inquisitive mind and her determination to have a career pushed her to become intensely invested in her writing and research projects.
		Tarbell was hired as an editor in 1894, and soon became "McClure’s" most successful writer when her series on Abraham Lincoln nearly doubled the circulation of the magazine.
		Tarbell capped the series with a two-part character study that revealed her fixation with the man she had been studying for the better part of five years.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/rockefellers/peopleevents/p_tarbell.html (1122 words)

	Ida Tarbell Life & Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ida Tarbell (1857-1944), the sole woman in Allegheny College's class of 1880, was America's first great woman journalist.
		Ida Tarbell had many opportunities to capitalize on her reputation as one of America's most respected journalists.
		The lasting results of Ida Tarbell's brand of investigative journalism, which include the 1911 Supreme Court decision to break up the Standard Oil trust, suggest that her career, characterized by thoroughness, fairness, and intellectual integrity, should be studied by any journalist more interested in recording and influencing events that achieving celebrity status.
	tarbell.alleg.edu /biobib.html (496 words)

	The Lessons of Ida Tarbell
		Tarbell was also preparing herself, unwittingly, to produce the most significant work of investigative journalism in history — her exposé of the Standard Oil Company and its executive, John D. Rockefeller.
		Tarbell’s relentless curiosity, the most significant trait of great investigative reporters, developed during her years at college and on her first job, as she built on the intellectual foundation of her youth and adolescence.
		Tarbell did some of her exploring with Clara (Dot) Walker, the banker’s daughter, who was determined to see that Ida got away from the arduous teaching schedule as often as possible.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF1804/Weinberg/Weinberg.html (1508 words)

	Ida Tarbell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ida Minerva Tarbell, born in 1857, was a woman far ahead of her time.
		Ida Minerva Tarbell, the first child of Franklin Sumner and Elizabeth McCullough Tarbell, was born November 5, 1857 in the log home of her maternal grandfather, Walter Raleigh McCullough.
		In 1870, when Ida was thirteen years old, her father bought the Bonta House, a hotel in Pithole, for six hundred dollars (it had cost sixty thousand dollars to build).
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /ppet/tarbell/page1.asp?secid=31 (631 words)

	Ida Tarbell Home Page
		November 6, 2001—The United States Postal Service announced that Ida Tarbell will be commemorated in a set of Four Women in Journalism stamps to be issued in recognition of the talents of Ida Tarbell, Marguerite Higgins, Ethel Payne and Nellie Bly.
		Ida Tarbell's "The History of the Standard Oil Company", published by McClure's Magazine (1902-1904), was ranked number five in a list of the top works of journalism this century.
		Includes facsimiles of the correspondence between Margaret Sanger and Ida Tarbell about the issue of birth control in the United States and a character study of John D. Rockefeller that was written for McClure's.
	tarbell.allegheny.edu (618 words)

	May/June 2001
		Born in 1857 in rural northwestern Pennsylvania, Tarbell was forty-three when she started researching the world's most powerful corporation and its chief executive, John D. Rockefeller.
		Tarbell's biggest obstacle, however, was neither her gender nor Rockefeller's opposition.
		Ida Tarbell possessed a relentless curiosity from a young age.
	archives.cjr.org /year/01/3/tarbell.asp (681 words)

	Stephanie Dispatch
		Ida Tarbell was born on a farm in Hatch Hallow, Pennsylvania, in 1857.
		Ida's foremost interest as a student was biology, and she vowed to be a scientist someday.
		Ida's articles became a 17-part series that started running in November 1901 and ended in 1904, when they were published altogether in two fat volumes.
	www.ustrek.org /odyssey/semester2/011701/011701stephidatar.html (1507 words)

	National Historic Landmarks Program (NHL) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From 1906 to 1944, this was the home of Ida Tarbell (1857-1944), one of the pioneers of contemporary journalism and literary biography.
		As a journalist working for McClure's Magazine, Tarbell's reputation was established by biographical series on Napoleon and Lincoln, and sealed by a series on the development of the Standard Oil, which was later published as the two-volume History of Standard Oil.
		Tarbell and other journalists such as Lincoln Steffens and Upton Sinclair, who set aside bland objectivity and focused on grave social problems from a stance of deep moral concern, were termed "muckrakers" by President Theodore Roosevelt.
	tps.cr.nps.gov /nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=2159&ResourceType=Building (135 words)

	The Lessons of Ida Tarbell
		Ida said later she always remembered two lessons from the incident - first, that she would never again experience defeat if she could help it; second, that she could always return to her parents after a revolt without fear of rejection.
		Ida understood that skill in the sciences might help her gain college admission, something she desired fervently in an era when many young women would not have dared act on such thoughts.
		Ida's exposure to the debate contributed to her understanding that few issues are simple - another vital realization for an investigative reporter.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF1803/Weinberg/Weinberg.html (2651 words)

	Ida M. Tarbell / All in the Day's Work
		Tarbell was the only woman in her class of forty students at Allegheny College.
		It was at McClure's--where she was the only woman on staff--that Tarbell made her name as a determined journalist, one of the fearless brigade of truth-seekers famously chastised by Theodore Roosevelt, who used the term "muckraker" to discredit those who attacked U. senators in print.
		Tarbell wrote serialized biographies of Napoleon and Abraham Lincoln, as well as a landmark series of articles on Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /f03/tarbell.html (340 words)

	Ida Minerva Tarbell
		Ida Minerva Tarbell was born on November 5, 1857 to Esther Ann McCullough and Franklin Sumner Tarbell on a farm in Erie County, Pennsylvania.
		With her background in the oil country, Tarbell was the natural choice for the assignment.
		At the age of 86, Ida Tarbell died of pneumonia in a hospital near Bridgeport, Connecticut.
	home.nycap.rr.com /bound/mediawomen/tarbell.html (778 words)

	Ida M. Tarbell
		Ida Tarbell, one of the original muckrakers, was able to help shut down the Standard Oil Company monopoly that had hampered her father's efforts in the oil industry in Pennsylvania.
		Ida Tarbell was born in a log cabin on a farm in Erie County, Pennsylvania.
		Brady, Kathleen, Ida Tarbell, Portrait of a Muckraker.
	www.pinn.net /~sunshine/whm2002/tarbell.html (843 words)

	Digging up the Dirt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Being a conscientious journalist, Ida Tarbell is known for the inauguration of muckraking.
		Ida Tarbell was able to take the information she found and piece the puzzle together.
		Ida Tarbell’s duty to inform readers of the monopolization of the oil industry by Rockefeller exemplifies her independence and accountability as a successful journalist.
	homepages.udayton.edu /~santamjc/winter2000-11/kathyjennings.html (1762 words)

	Ida Tarbell, Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ida Tarbell wanted a career, so she decided she would never marry.
		It was a custom in the Tarbell household to entertain the Methodist ministers who periodically filled the pulpit in the Titusville church.
		Ida Tarbell felt a need to find out more about women and their contributions to public life.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /ppet/tarbell/page2.asp?secid=31 (432 words)

	tarbell1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ida Tarbell was one of the little group of crusading journalist — muckrackers, as President Roosevelt called them—who in articles and books exposed the social evils and injustice of the time.
		Miss Tarbell’s most sensational series of articles, written for McClure’s magazine beginning in 1903, was on John D. Rockefeller and the beginnings of the Standard Oil Company.
		Miss Tarbell’s expose` of the origins of his company and the methods be used to acquire his fortune caused many reflective Americans to consider the virtues and vices of the free-enterprise system itself.
	mohawk.k12.ny.us /progressive/tarbell1.html (376 words)

	Allegheny College: What Leads to the Best Journalism? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Allegheny alumna Ida Tarbell, class of 1880, was born in Erie County on Nov. 5, 1857.
		Ida Tarbell blended an unusual combination of interests, skills and talents--a love of science and discovery with a passion for communication--to stand up for what she believed in.
		Although Tarbell is widely regarded as one of America's finest journalists, event planners at the College have decided to see if they can find consensus about what kind of person is best suited to journalism as it has evolved in modern times.
	www.alleg.edu /news/releases/004046.php (845 words)

	Ida M. Tarbell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5, 1857 - January 6, 1944) was an American author and journalist, known as one of the leading muckrakers.
		It placed fifth in a 1999 list of the top 100 works of journalism in the 20th century.
		Tarbell's other books include Life of Abraham Lincoln (1900), The Business of Being a Woman (1912), The Ways of Women (1915), biographies of (1925) and Owen D. Young (1932), The Nationalizing of Business, 1878-1898 (1936), and her autobiography, All in the Day's Work (1939).
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Ida_Tarbell (592 words)

	National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ida Tarbell helped transform journalism by introducing what is called today investigative journalism.
		Through her achievements she not only helped to expand the role of the newspaper in modern society and stimulate the Progressive reform movement, but she also became a role model for women wishing to become professional journalists.
		Born on the oil frontier of western Pennsylvania in 1857, Tarbell was among the first women to graduate from Allegheny College in 1880.
	www.greatwomen.org /women.php?action=viewone&id=156 (493 words)

	News Release
		The agency selected Kochersberger for his research on Tarbell, one of a dozen journalists known as muckrakers in the early 1900s for their efforts to expose the wrongdoings committed by corporate America and government.
		Tarbell is best known for her powerful exposé on the Standard Oil Company in its attempt to monopolize the oil industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
		Tarbell was one of relatively few female journalists in the country at the time.
	www.ncsu.edu /news/press_releases/02_09/233.htm (600 words)

	Ida Minerva Tarbell Biography / Biography of Ida Minerva Tarbell Biography Biography
		Ida Tarbell was born on Nov. 5, 1857, in Erie County, Pa., the daughter of a small oilman driven to the wall by the Rockefeller oil monopoly.
		Tarbell, unlike many famous people, spent an unusually well-adjusted childhood and had a healthy appreciation of her parents.
		She wrote of the log house in which she was born and of the pleasant memories it gave her.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-ida-minerva-tarbell (269 words)

	Ida Tarbell Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Two of her brothers knew Abraham Lincoln, and her father was forced out of business by John D. Rockefeller's Southern Improvement Company, a predecessor to Standard Oil.
		Although public opposition to Rockefeller and Standard Oil existed prior to Tarbell's investigation, it fueled public attacks on Standard Oil and in trusts in general, and the book is credited with hastening the 1911 breakup of Standard Oil.
		Tarbell's other books included Life of Abraham Lincoln (1900), The Business of Being a Woman (1912), The Ways of Women (1915), biographies of Elbert H. Gary (1925) and Owen D. Young (1932), The Nationalizing of Business, 1878-1898 (1936), and her autobiography, All in the Day's Work (1939).
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Tarbell_Ida.html (408 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Ida Tarbell: Pioneer Investigative Reporter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Starting with Tarbell's childhood in the oil fields of western Pennsylvania, Somervill presents a lively and interesting portrait of this ambitious, adventurous woman.
		Tarbell's journalistic career began at a small newspaper in Pennsylvania, but after she moved to Paris she wrote biographies that appeared in installments in McClure's magazine.
		Touching briefly on Tarbell's childhood in "the oil patch" of nineteenth-century Pennsylvania, the text focuses on the journalist's iconoclastic career, detailing her struggles and failings as well as her triumphs, most famously her expose of John D. Rockefeller that helped turn public opinion against Standard Oil and contributed to the break-up of the oil trust....
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1883846870 (344 words)

	Freedom: A History of US. Printable Page \| PBS
		When Ida Tarbell was a girl, she wished to be a scientist.
		She soon discovered that a degree and a passion for science were not enough: scientific research, like most fields, was a men-only domain.
		Ida became a teacher, but found she didn't really want to teach, so she went off to France.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/historyofus/web10/segment5_p.html (670 words)

	Ida M. Tarbell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tarbell, who had already written popular works on Lincoln and Napoleon, was commissioned by S. McClure not to do a work of exposure, but to tell the story of the remarkable achievements of Standard Oil.
		However, Tarbell had lived among the independent oil operators of Pennsylvania and looked at this gigantic company through the eyes of its defeated competitors.
		Her account became the story of the ruthless methods by which this company was built, and it was so effective in flening the name of John D Rockefeller that he found it wise to hire a publicity agent to create a more favorable image of himself in the public mind.
	www.utoronto.ca /csus/271/tarbell.htm (2609 words)

	The AWC Matrix - Association for Women in Communications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		SENECA FALLS, NY, AUGUST 18, 2000 — Ida Tarbell (1857-1944), role model for women journalists and a leader in investigative journalism, will be inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame at a formal ceremony on Saturday, October 7 in Seneca Falls, New York.
		Tarbell made history with her landmark 1904 book, The History of the Standard Oil Company.
		In 1922, The New York Times named her one of the "Twelve Greatest American Women." Tarbell is credited with leading the way in a brand of journalism that has inspired Americans to seek reform in government, economic structures, and in our urban areas.
	www.womcom.org /88Uk9XyQ8fKPBJ6iMKboOD1/fallmatrix/tarbell.html (370 words)

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