Eulogy For Ida Tarbell

She wrote many letters to different people such as ministers. She wrote about freedom and liberty. They needed to know what they were doing wrong and it might have changed their perspective on slavery. And made them realize African Americans had the same qualities they did. This was also the first book an African American woman wrote in America. Once she published her book, she received a lot of recognition. John Hancock was one of the many who saw her book and thought it was beautiful. Her owner decided she deserved to be free so she was freed that year from slavery.

Ida Gray Nelson Rollins was born on March 4, 1867, in Clarksville, Tennessee. Ida was the daughter of Jennie Gray and a white male whose name is unknown. Ida became an orphan at an early age when her mother died. After the death of her mother, she was raised by her aunt Caroline Gray in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ida helped support her aunt by working as a seamstress and dressmaker, all while in high school. She also worked in the dental office of Jonathan and William Taft.

Ida Tarbell grew up in Erie County, Pennsylvania. Frank Tarbell, Ida’s father, saw an opportunity and switched jobs in order to become a part of the evolving oil business in their area. Soon business was driven away by the Standard Oil Company and wealthy oil refiners

Ida Bell Wells, more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was born in Holly Springs Mississippi on the 16th of July in 1862. Ida was raised by her mother Lizzie Wells and her father James Wells. She was born into slavery as the oldest of eight children in the family. Both Ida’s parents were enslaved during the Civil War but after the war they became active in the Republican Party during the Reconstruction era. Ida’s father, James, was also involved in the Freedman’s Aid Society (Biography.com). He also helped to start Shaw University. Shaw University was a university for the newly freed slaves to attend, it was also where Ida received the majority of her schooling. However, Ida received little schooling because she was forced to take care of her other siblings after her parents and one of her siblings passed away due to Yellow Fever. Ida became a teacher at the age of 16 as a way to make money for her and her siblings. Eventually Ida and all her sisters moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to live with their aunt, leaving all their brothers behind to continue working. In Memphis Ida began to stand up for the rights of African Americans and women.

The first author wrote about how she became known. She wasn’t a big fan of Lincoln because of him favoring having slaves. She raised funds to help the war. She met the Governor of Massachusetts because he had heard about her and he had also hated having slaves around. She also joined the Quaker Volunteers. She became very well known for theses things she did.

She was known to have stud up to the Puritans of the time and protest a new anti-Quakers law. She is also famous for her set example of determination and sacrifice.

Ida Minerva Tarbell was born in Hatch Hollow, Pennsylvania on November fifth, eighteen fifty seven. Ida was brought up in a strict Christian household. She often questioned her faith, even though she was too afraid to admit it sometimes. She was a very curious child, “suddenly… I found in certain textbooks the [open] sesame which was to free my curiosity, stir desires to know, set me working on my own to find out more than these books had to offer. These textbooks were for zoology, geology, botany, natural philosophy, and chemistry (McCully 26).”

She contributed to giving a deserving woman a place in Canadian history. She made a now canadian legend - Laura Secord - a household name. She was very dedicated to Canada, for the entire part of her life in which she lived here. In 1876, she wrote a play about Secord’s 20-mile

Ida Tarbell was born in Erie County, Pennsylvania on November fifth, eighteen fifty seven. When Ida was three years old, oil was found in Titusville, a town nearby. Tarbell’s father, Frank Tarbell, then joined the oil business. He struggled with the choice of either put his oil business for sale to John D. Rockefeller, Sr. and his newly incorporated Standard Oil Company, or attempt to compete and face destruction.

Ida Tarbell was was born on November 5,1857 in the rich-oil region of northern Pennsylvania. Her father was an oil producer and refiner, her family lived happily and peacefully. Until 1872, under the guise of the South Improvement Company, the price-fixing scheme concocted by the Pennsylvania Railroad and John

According to The New York Times, in the late 1990’s she was accused of lifting text from another writer to use in a freelance piece. She later apologized for the text in which she did not attribute her source. During her time with The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the editors saw discrepancies between her writing, and the accurate account of the story. They attributed this to a heavy work load, and she was never

Was an American journalist best known for her pioneering investigative reporting that led to the breakup of the Standard Oil Company’s monopoly.

Hey I'm back and it's like nearly 5 months since I wrote that ^^^ and guess what? IT GETS A WHOLE LOT WORSE. The boy doesn't even care about you Ellie, and it's looking like he never truly did. He doesn't care whether he's in your life or not, he could go on just fine and unscathed without you which is literally the worst situation to be in. Especially when you've devoted your entire teenage life (and a little bit before) to making him happy and letting his behaviour affect your every mood. You were used at the end of the day, just a person to spend his time with until he found better company, but during this time you fell for the bullshit and believed he actually cared about you and was actually desperate to have you in his life when in fact

For a long time, she lived in a "basement house" [they built the basement, but then they ran out of money, so they just lived in the basement]. Her dad died when she was almost 4 years old, so she & her siblings had to do a lot to help out around the "house". She learned to cook when she was 7, & she didn’t get her first TV until she was 5. She also had a dog called "Stinky Poo" who ate corn on the cob with her front paws.

It was because, despite the challenges that she faced, she was ready to move on with life. She became famous as the woman writer and as a local colorist. She was capable of writing many stories, sketches in arcane magazines and essays and at the selfsame time to take care of her children.