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(November 5, 1857-January 6, 1944)
Born in Hatch Hollow, Pennsylvania
Muckraker
Obtained Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from Allegheny College (1880 and 1883, respectively)
Staff member of Chautauquan newspaper (1882)
Attended Sorbonne University (1891-1894)
Worked for McClure’s Magazine
Wrote ‘The History of the Standard Oil Company’ (1904), ‘The Business of Being a Woman’ (1912), ‘The Ways of Women’ (1915), ‘The Nationalizing of Business, 1878-1898’ (1936), and ‘All in the Day’s Work’ (1941)
Died in Bethel, Connecticut, United States
Why she might be annoying
Unlike most famous people of her time, she had a comfortable childhood.
She refused to support women’s suffrage.
She disliked being called a muckraker.
Why she might not be annoying
She was the only woman in her class when she graduated Allegheny College (1880).
John Rockefeller bankrupted her father’s oil business, so she protested against business monopolies.
She created a new kind of journalism known as investigative journalism.
She campaigned against trusts.
New York Times called her one of the ‘Twelve Greatest American Women’ (1922).
She died of pneumonia.
Credit: Big Lenny
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