Tarbell was one of the most influential muckrakers of the Gilded Age, even though she did not care for the association with the term as she did not consider herself a writer. It seems the two felt Tarbell was writing a flattering article about the company.
Tarbell did not support the suffrage movement, a growing movement attempting to get the right to vote for women, feeling the movement contradicted her own convictions and refused repeated pleas to endorse the movement. Ida Tarbell died in Connecticut in at the age of 86 and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Titusville. At age 19, she went to Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. But after studying biology, Tarbell came to realize that she preferred writing. She took an editing job for a teaching publication and eventually worked her way up to managing editor before moving to Paris in to write.
There, Tarbell wrote a long and well-received series on Napoleon Bonaparte, which led to an immensely popular part series on Abraham Lincoln.
Standard Oil Company Refinery No. Photo: Wikipedia. After the Cleveland Massacre, Rogers spent 25 years working alongside Rockefeller, building Standard Oil into one of the first and largest multinational corporations in the world. Flagler was to have me go. But his daughter was relentless. Tarbell never considered herself a writer of talent. And perhaps I could learn to write. Initially she wrote two popular biographical series—on Napoleon and Abraham Lincoln.
In , she embarked on her ground breaking study of John D. As a result, after years of precedent-setting litigation, the Supreme Court upheld the break-up of Standard Oil. As the most famous woman journalist of her time, Tarbell founded the American Magazine in The rapidly changing economic landscape and the rise of monopolistic trusts was "disturbing and confusing people," wrote Tarbell.
A new generation of investigative journalists, later dubbed "muckrakers" by President Theodore Roosevelt, had set out to wage a campaign to expose corruption in business and political lawlessness. Tarbell latched onto the idea of using the story of Standard Oil to illustrate these troubling issues, persuading McClure to agree to a three-part series on the oil trust.
Tarbell's father, fearing that Rockefeller would retaliate against the magazine, advised her not to do it. For almost two years, she painstakingly looked through volumes of public records, including court testimony, state and federal reports and newspaper coverage.
From these, she gathered a mind-boggling wealth of information on Rockefeller's ascent and the methods used by Standard Oil. The breadth of her research was remarkable, but even more impressive was her ability to digest Rockefeller's complicated business maneuvers into a narrative that would be accessible and engaging to the average reader. Although always modest about her prose, Tarbell was an eloquent writer, able to combine her keen analytical skills with a sense of drama.
It takes time to crush men who are pursuing legitimate trade. But one of Mr. Rockefeller's most impressive characteristics is patience. There never was a more patient man, or one who could dare more while he waited. And nothing was too small: the corner grocery in Browntown, the humble refining still on Oil Creek, the shortest private pipe line. Nothing, for little things grow.
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