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Born in a log home in Hatch Hollow, northwestern Pennsylvania, on November 5, 1857, Ida Minerva Tarbell grew up amid ... She died of pneumonia in 1944, at the age of 86.

Born in Western Pennsylvania in 1857, Ida Tarbell was fascinated by geology ... She died in 1944 at the age of eight-six. Tarbell had hoped to see Rockefeller put out of business; when he was ...