** Ida Tarbell, American journalist ( d. 1944 )

Former distinguished faculty include the author of the McGuffey Reader, William Holmes McGuffey and journalist Ida Tarbell.

Perhaps in one of history's ironies, another resident of Venango County about the same time as Henry and Abbie Rogers was a little girl named Ida M. Tarbell, whose father was an independent producer whose small business was ruined by the South Improvement Company scheme of 1871 and the conglomerate which became Standard Oil.

The latter is the birthplace of famed muckracker Ida M. Tarbell, who was born in her grandfather's log cabin in Hatch Hollow in 1857.

His serious interest in social problems was first aroused at about this time by Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell, and once aroused it quickly led him to a far more radical position than theirs.

Other contributors during this period included Alfred Henry Lewis, Sinclair Lewis, A. J. Cronin, David Graham Phillips, George Bernard Shaw, Upton Sinclair, and Ida Tarbell.

* January 6 – Ida M. Tarbell, journalist

Ida Minerva Tarbell ( November 5, 1857 – January 6, 1944 ) was an American teacher, author and journalist.

" And then, in an inspirational tale for journalists, Ida Tarbell went to work.

Ida Tarbell died of pneumonia at Bridgeport Hospital in Bridgeport, Connecticut on January 6, 1944, after being in the hospital since December 1943.

In 1993, half a century after her deal, the Ida Tarbell House was declared a National Historic Landmark.

* Abraham Lincoln, an address delivered by Miss Ida Tarbell for the Students ' lecture association of the University of Michigan 1909

Tarbell, Ida M., " Peacemakers Blessed And Otherwise " The Macmillan Company, 1922

Tarbell, Ida M., " The Business of Being a Woman ", The Macmillan Company, 1921

Tarbell, Ida M., " He Knew Lincoln " Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909

Tarbell, Ida M., " The History of the Standard Oil Co ."

" Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller ".

" Ida Tarbell, patron saint ", Columbia Journalism Review, 40 ( 1 ), 29.

He later became an editor of McClure's magazine, where he became part of a celebrated muckraking trio, along with Ida Tarbell and Ray Stannard Baker.

In 1898, Baker joined the staff of McClure's, a pioneer muckraking magazine, and quickly rose to prominence along with Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell.

Journalistic critics, including Ida M. Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens were labeled The Muckrakers.

Ida M. Tarbell (" The History of Standard Oil "), Lincoln Steffens (" The Shame of Minneapolis ") and Ray Stannard Baker (" The Right to Work "), simultaneously published famous works in that single issue.

McClure sought out and hired talented writers, like the then unknown Ida M. Tarbell or the seasoned journalist and editor Lincoln Steffens.

Ida Tarbell published The Rise of the Standard Oil Company in 1902, providing insight into the manipulation of trusts.

* Ida M. Tarbell ( 1857 – 1944 ) exposé, The History of the Standard Oil Company

Their authors, such as the journalist Ida M. Tarbell, who crusaded against the Standard Oil Trust, became known as " Muckrakers ".

* Ida M. Tarbell, 1925.

* Ida M. Tarbell

* Tarbell, Ida M. 1904, The History of Standard Oil

Paris Singer contributed an introduction and Ida M. Tarbell wrote the text.

* Ida M. Tarbell

* Ida M. Tarbell

* Tarbell, Ida M. 1904, The History of Standard Oil

* Tarbell, Ida M. The History of Standard Oil

Muckrakers are often claimed as the professional ancestors of modern advocacy journalists ; for example: Nellie Bly, Ida M. Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, George Seldes, and I. F.

* The American Impressionists, including Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Frederick Carl Frieseke, Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, Lilla Cabot Perry, Theodore Robinson, Edmund Charles Tarbell, John Henry Twachtman, and J. Alden Weir.

Many late 1970s and early 1980s home computers used Compact Cassettes, encoded with the Kansas City standard, or several other " standards " such as the Tarbell Cassette Interface.

* April 26 – Edmund Charles Tarbell, American artist ( d. 1938 )

Introduced to each other in 1902 by their mutual friend Mark Twain, Tarbell who had become an investigative journalist and Rogers, who knew of her work, shared meetings and information over a two year period which led to her epoch work, The History of the Standard Oil Company, published in 1904, which many historians feel helped fuel public sentiment against the giant company and helped lead to the court-ordered break-up of it in 1911.

* Edmund C. Tarbell, impressionist painter

* John Tarbell, ( b. in Moriah, lieutenant-colonel of the 91st New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment and promoted to brevet brigadier general of United States Volunteers during the American Civil War.

It borders Tarbell Avenue, one of the oldest brick-paved streets in Ohio.

* Edmund C. Tarbell

Tarbell was born in Amity Township, Pennsylvania on November 5, 1857.

She was the daughter of Esther Ann ( née McCullough ) and Franklin Summer Tarbell, a teacher and a joiner by trade, who used his trade to build wooden oil storage tanks.

Later, Tarbell would vividly recall this situation in her work, as she accused the leaders of the Standard Oil Company of using unfair tactics to put her father and many small oil companies out of business.