Rockefeller, Ida Tarbell would become the torchbearer ... Earlier biographers had painted a squalid picture of Lincoln’s early life; Tarbell presented him as a man of the frontier, where life ...

Born in a log home in Hatch Hollow, northwestern Pennsylvania, on November 5, 1857, Ida Minerva Tarbell ... she moved to Paris to write her biography. Overseas, Tarbell supported herself by ...