Tarbell

[mbgross]

This is for Mr. Wick and all others who might be interested. In the current edition of the Lincoln Herald (Fall 2025, they run a little behind) there is an article by Stacy Lynn titled "Ida Tarbell's Lincoln". She wrote a wonderful little book last year "Loving Lincoln", mostly about MTL but included a chapter on Tarbell and others and of her own personal Lincoln journey. Everybody already knew this.... but just in case somebody hasn't.

[Rob Wick]

Is there a way to access this online? I don't have a subscription to the Lincoln Herald, and I definitely would like to see it.

Best
Rob

[mbgross]

I don't know. If you like, you can send me a private message of your address, and I can mail you, my copy. I don't need it back.

[Rob Wick]

PM sent!

Best
Rob

[David Lockmiller]

Ida M. Tarbell: A Progressive Look at Lincoln
JUDITH A. RICE

Ida Tarbell was born in the middle of raw capitalistic endeavor in the oil region of Pennsylvania in 1857. Her father, an "ardent Republican," had made a living in the frontier community by devising a tank to hold the oil that gushed daily from the wooded hills near Cherry Run, Pennsylvania. Eventually, he was one of the independent oilmen broken by John D. Rockefeller of the Standard Oil Company.


Tarbell continued to write about Lincoln throughout the Progressive Era even after she turned to her famous series of exposures on the Standard Oil Company in 1902. When Jesse Weik inquired if her work on the History of the Standard Oil Company meant that she was finished with her research on Lincoln, she answered: "Of course, I have not dropped Lincoln, I intend to keep hold of him as long as I live." Tarbell continued the investigative work begun in her biography of Lincoln by editing a collection of Lincoln's letters, speeches, and state papers published in 1911.