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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 08-12-2013
This gentleman was very important to a younger Ida M. Tarbell. Who is he?
![[Image: 01gu.jpg]](http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/15/01gu.jpg/)
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - RJNorton - 08-13-2013
Horace Greeley in old age?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 08-13-2013
Good guess, Roger but it's not Greeley.
First clue: This photo was taken around the time Tarbell knew him.
Bonus clue: He wrote letters of introduction for Tarbell, including one to John Hay.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 08-13-2013
Third clue:
He was from Massachusetts and belonged to the Free-Soil Party.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - RJNorton - 08-13-2013
George Frisbie Hoar.
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 08-13-2013
You got it Roger. My next clue was going to be you could play with his middle name but should stay far away from his last name.
If I can find my old Frisbee, that will be your prize. I think it's on a roof somewhere.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 12-27-2018
It's been a long time since I've contributed a trivia question regarding Ida Tarbell, but since I'm on a small hiatus from writing about her (which will end this weekend) I thought I might contribute one for old times sake.
What subject of Tarbell once remarked to her "I did not think I could be quite so interesting."
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - RJNorton - 12-28-2018
Robert Lincoln?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - AussieMick - 12-28-2018
John D Rockefeller?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 12-28-2018
Both are certainly logical guesses, but not correct. In fact, Tarbell never spoke to Rockefeller in her life.
First clue. The person in question was a woman.
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - RJNorton - 12-28-2018
Helen Keller?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Rob Wick - 12-28-2018
Good guess Roger, but it's not her..
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Rob
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Steve - 12-28-2018
Jane Addams?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - Warren - 12-28-2018
I'm going to take a shot in the dark - Eleanor Roosevelt?
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia - L Verge - 12-28-2018
(08-13-2013, 05:27 PM)Rob Wick Wrote: You got it Roger. My next clue was going to be you could play with his middle name but should stay far away from his last name.
If I can find my old Frisbee, that will be your prize. I think it's on a roof somewhere.
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Rob
I taught with a female English teacher with the last name of "Hoar." Boy, did our middle schoolers have a field day...