Viola Roseboro'
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Viola Roseboro' was an American literary editor. She was the fiction editor for McClure's and later for Collier's, in which role she discovered several important authors. Ida Tarbell called her a "bor
Roseboro' in her twenties
Ida Tarbell
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Ida Minerva Tarbell was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers and reformers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20
Viola Roseboro'
…an American literary editor. She was the fiction editor for McClure's and later for Collier's, in which role she discovered several important authors. Ida Tarbell called her a "born reader" and a "reader of real genius". Roseboro' was born in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1857. Her parents, the Reverend Samuel Reed…
Portrait in 1904
A Pennsylvania oil field in 1862
Ruter Hall, Allegheny College
Ida Minerva Tarbell, 1890