Tarbell, Ida M.

Tarbell, Ida M.

▪ American journalist
in full  Ida Minerva Tarbell 
born Nov. 5, 1857, Erie county, Pa., U.S.
died Jan. 6, 1944, Bridgeport, Conn.
 investigative journalist, lecturer, and chronicler of American industry, best known for her classic The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904).

      Tarbell was educated at Allegheny College (Meadville, Pennsylvania) and taught briefly before becoming an editor for the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle (1883–91). In 1891 she took her savings and went to Paris, where she enrolled in the Sorbonne and supported herself by writing articles for American magazines. S.S. McClure, founder of McClure's Magazine, hired her in 1894. The History of the Standard Oil Company, originally a serial that ran in McClure's, is one of the most thorough accounts of the rise of a business monopoly and its use of unfair practices. The articles also helped to define a growing trend to investigation, exposé, and crusading in liberal journals of the day, a technique that in 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt would label muckraking (muckraker).

      Tarbell's association with McClure's lasted until 1906. She wrote for American Magazine, which she also co-owned and coedited, from 1906 to 1915, the year the magazine was sold. She lectured for a time on the chautauqua circuit and wrote several popular biographies, including eight books on Abraham Lincoln. Later she served as a member of various government conferences and committees concerned with defense, industry, unemployment, and other issues. Her autobiography, All in the Day's Work, was published in 1939.

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