Until the close of her life, she would be known as the foremost biographer of Lincoln. Courtesy: The Ida M. Tarbell Collection, Pelletier Library, Allegheny College, Meadville PA Still ...

Born in a log home in Hatch Hollow, northwestern Pennsylvania, on November 5, 1857, Ida Minerva Tarbell grew up amid ... "Our national life is on every side distinctly poorer, uglier, meaner ...