Credit: Ida M. Tarbell Collection, Pelletier Library, Allegheny College
A native of Titusville, Ida Tarbell (1857-1944) was the only woman in class of 1880. In the early 1900s she would become one of the nation's most famous investigative journalists. Indeed, in 1999 the New York Times still listed her muckraking 1904 expose, The History of Standard Oil, number five of the top 100 works of twentieth-century American journalism.
