Ida M. Tarbell - Titusville, PA - Pennsylvania Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

Marker Text: Noted oil historian, biographer of Lincoln, journalist, lived in this house about six years. She was graduated from the Titusville High School in 1875.

Understated sign - She is best-known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company, which was listed as #5 out of 100 in a 1999 New York Times list of twentieth-century American journalism. The book increased negative public sentiment against Standard Oil, thus became a piece of evidence in the U.S. government's antitrust case against the Standard Oil Trust which led to its breakup in 1911.

Marker Name: Ida M. Tarbell County: Crawford Date Dedicated: 09/30/1954 Marker Type: City Location: 324 E. Main St. (PA 27), Titusville Category: Abraham Lincoln, Women, Writers Website: [Web Link]

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