History

14 year old girl vs Richest man on earth Her mother was crying. Her dad's business was failing. You can't compete with the Standard Oil thet said. If you refuse to sell, you'll be crushed." Soon they would lose everything. How would they eat? Her mother thought. John D Rockefeller was putting a lot of people out of business. But what could a 14 year old girl do? Ida would do what her had couldn't. Stand up to John D Rockefeller, the richest man in the works and restore justice to American business. As she grew up, she wanted to be a scientist. She loved studying geology and botany. She was clever and did well at school. She took biology in college and was the only female in a class of 41 students. However, in 1900, women weren't allowed to be scientists and unlike the other students, she was denied a job in science purely because she was a  woman. So she used her investigation skills and became a writer. She got a job in France, where she wrote