PRINTER'S NO. 2843
No. 462 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY FORCIER, HUTCHINSON, ARGALL, BASTIAN, BEBKO-JONES,
CLYMER, CORRIGAN, CREIGHTON, CRUZ, CURRY, DALEY, DENLINGER,
DeWEESE, J. EVANS, FABRIZIO, FICHTER, GRUCELA, HARHAI,
HERMAN, HERSHEY, HESS, HORSEY, KELLER, LAUGHLIN, LEDERER,
LEH, LESCOVITZ, LEWIS, McGILL, McILHATTAN, PALLONE, PHILLIPS,
PISTELLA, ROBERTS, ROEBUCK, ROHRER, ROSS, RUBLEY, SATHER,
SCAVELLO, R. STEVENSON, THOMAS, WALKO, WATSON, WOJNAROSKI AND
YOUNGBLOOD, OCTOBER 27, 2003
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
OCTOBER 27, 2003
A RESOLUTION
1 Honoring one of Titusville's most famous citizens by designating
2 November 1, 2003, as "Ida Tarbell Day."
3 WHEREAS, Ida Minerva Tarbell, born in Erie on November 5,
4 1857, was raised in Titusville; and
5 WHEREAS, Ida Tarbell was the only woman in the 1880 class at
6 Allegheny College; and
7 WHEREAS, Ida Tarbell became known throughout the United
8 States as a newspaper and magazine writer and editor, author,
9 lecturer and muckraker; and
10 WHEREAS, Ida Tarbell earned recognition for her two-volume
11 "The History of the Standard Oil Company," an expose of John D.
12 Rockefeller's oil interests which resulted in the eventual
13 breakup of the Standard Oil Company; and
14 WHEREAS, Ida Tarbell wrote biographies of Napoleon, Madame
1 Roland and Abraham Lincoln, feminist works, "The Business of
2 Being a Woman" and "The Ways of Women" and, in 1939, "All in a
3 Day's Work: An Autobiography"; and
4 WHEREAS, Ida Tarbell's biography and selected writings can be
5 found in the Encyclopedia Britannica's "Women in American
6 History"; and
7 WHEREAS, Ida Tarbell died on January 6, 1944; and
8 WHEREAS, Ida Tarbell's obituary was published in the New York
9 Times; and
10 WHEREAS, Ida Tarbell was inducted into the National Women's
11 Hall of Fame in 2000; and
12 WHEREAS, The United States Postal Service issued a stamp
13 commemorating Ida Tarbell and other women journalists in 2002;
14 therefore be it
15 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives honor the memory
16 of Ida Tarbell by designating November 1, 2003, as "Ida Tarbell
17 Day."
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