Ida Minerva Tarbell

Ida Minerva Tarbell 1857-1944, American author, b. Erie co., Pa., grad. Allegheny College (B.A., 1880; M.A., 1883). One of the leading muckrakers , she is remembered for her investigations of industry published in McClure's magazine. Some of them were collected in her History of the Standard Oil Company (1904). She also wrote Life of Abraham Lincoln (1900), other books on Lincoln, and biographies of Elbert H. Gary (1925) and Owen D. Young (1932). Her economic studies culminated in The Nationalizing of Business, 1878-1898 (1936).

Bibliography: See her autobiography, All in the Day's Work (1939).

Tarbell, Ida M[inerva] (1857–1944), Pennsylvania author, editor, and lecturer, first became known as a leader of the muckraking movement for her articles in McClure's Magazine. From some of these was gathered her sensational exposé The History of the Standard Oil Company (2 vols., 1904). For the same magazine she had earlier written a Life of Abraham Lincoln (2 vols., 1900). She is the author of other books on Lincoln, The Nationalizing of Business, 1878–1898 (1936), and an autobiography, All in the Day's Work (1939).