Ida Tarbell was born on November 5, 1857 in Amity, PA. Her series of exposés on the Standard Oil company led to the Supreme Court decision of breaking up the company.
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About
Her series of exposés on the Standard Oil company led to the Supreme Court decision of breaking up the company.
Before Fame
One of the only women in her Allegeny College graduating class, she took on a me-against-the-world spirit to McClure's magazine, where she started investigating big Business.
Trivia
She dug into volumes of Rockefeller Business records, news reports and court testimony to uncover the unfair methods they used in their ascent.
Family Life
Her birth to an oil family among the derricks of North West Pennsylvania and helped her to make sense of the Rockefellers' Business dealings.
Associated With
President Theodore Roosevelt would later frown on her generation's brand of investigative reporting known as muckraking.
