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 ...

Ida Minerva Tarbell was an American writer ... Iowa and the plan was he was going to work and he was going to build a house and get things ready for Esther to join him. And at this point, Esther ...