Born in a log home in Hatch Hollow, northwestern Pennsylvania, on November 5, 1857, Ida Minerva Tarbell grew up amid the derricks of the Oil Region. Her father, Frank Tarbell, built wooden oil ...

Courtesy: The Ida M. Tarbell Collection, Pelletier Library, Allegheny College, Meadville PA Still, Tarbell’s greatest accomplishment lay ahead of her. The ever-prescient Sam McClure had decided ...