Ida Tarbell

Complete Ida Minerva Taber (November 5, 1857, Erie County, Pennsylvania, January 6, 1944, Bridgeport, Connecticut), investigative reporter, lecturer, American Industry classic oil company known as the history of A chronicle (1904)

Tabel was educated at Allegheny College (Middleville, Pennsylvania) and taught easily before becoming an editor of Chautauqua Literature and Science Circle (1883-91). In 1891 she paid savings to Paris, where she enrolled in Sorbonne and an American magazine wrote an article to support her. S.S., the founder of McClure magazine. McClure hired her in 1894. The history of Standard Oil, originally run by McClure, is one of the most thorough explanations of the rise of commercial monopoly and its unfair practices. These articles also helped to identify the investigation, disclosure, and crusade trends in the liberal journals of the time. It was marked by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906.

The relationship between Tabel and McClure lasted until 1906. She wrote for "American Magazine" from 1906 to 1915 (the year the magazine was sold), and she co-owned it and compiled it. She spoke for a while on the Château Qua tour and wrote several popular biographies, including eight books on Abraham Lincoln. Later, she took part in various government meetings and committees and took up issues such as defense, industry, unemployment. Her autobiography published in 1939, working all day

Early life in Ida Taber's Pennsylvania oil field will have an impact when she later wrote labor practices with a standard oil company. Panic in 1857 attacked the Tabel family, the bank collapsed and Taber lost his savings. When Aida was born, Franklin Taber built a family house in Iowa. Franklin gave up the house of Iowa and returned to Pennsylvania. In the absence of money, he traveled in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio to regain and support himself in the process of teaching in a rural school. When he returned, he struggled from his 18-month journey, and said that it was told that a young ida Taber told him, "Stop the bad guy!"

A big bully from an oil company invaded the town when Ida Turbel was a small girl in Hutch Hollow, a small town in the oil field in the western part of Pennsylvania. It made Ida's father and many other people unemployed. Ada will never forget. The company's name is Standard Oil. Its owner is a mighty John D. Rockefeller. Talbell was the only woman of the Allegheny University graduation class in 1880, and she moved to Ohio to teach science. It lasted only two years. She wants to write. She moved to France and wrote a biography of Napoleon. One of the articles attracted the attention of publisher Samuel McClure. He hired her and she returned to America. She doubled the circulation of McClure's magazine and wrote a career about Abraham Lincoln.