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Ida Tarbell was born in 1857 in Western Pennsylvania. Ida was the daughter of of an independent oil producer. Ida was angered when John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company began to swallow up independent oil companies and her father's company went bankrupt.
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In 1876 Ida entered Allengany College and was the only female student in a class of 40 males. She called all the males "hostile or indifferent."
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In 1900 McClure's assigned her to investigate Standard Oil. Ida published her findings in 19 articles on Standard Oil's business practices.
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McClure's readers hailed Ida as "the terror of the trusts." Unlike other reporters, Ida was dimayed to find that she had been labled a muckmaker. Many of her readers continued to expect such exposes and seemed uninterested in more postive findings.
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After graduation Ida began her career as a writer. By the 1890s she was writing for McClure's. In November 1902 McClure's ran the first installment of "History of the Standard Oil Company" by Ida Tarbell.
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Later in Ida Tarbell's life she participated in numerous government conferences and committees. They delt with.......
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Ida wrote her autobiography. She clled it All in the Day's Work. Five years later, in 1944 she died.
