retiring from publishing weekly columns at the age of 76, Goulder-Izant spent her time researching the Rockefeller Family Archives at the Western Reserve Historical Society and in 1972, published a well-received biography of John D. Rockefeller. The book, John D. Rockefeller, The Cleveland Years chronicled the early life of the oil magnate telling for the first time how he created the enterprise that would be known as Standard Oil. Goulder-Izant died on November 17, 1984 in Akron, Ohio. Shortly after her death, Kent State University Press published her final work, Hudson’s Heritage: A Chronicle of the Founding and the Flowering of the Village of Hudson, Ohio, which used biographical sketches to relay the history of the village where Goulder-Izant had lived for 60 years. Legacy In her quest to write the stories behind the history of Ohio, Goulder-Izant collected and preserved many documents important to the history of the state. Besides collecting documents on buildings and monuments, she collected the papers of David Hudson and John Brown. She served as a trustee of the Western Reserve Historical Society, receiving the Ohio Governor's Award for her preservation work. She was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 1982. References Citations Sources 1893 births 1984 deaths Writers from Cleveland 20th-century American women writers Vassar College alumni American women historians Journalists from Ohio 20th-century American historians 20th-century American journalists Historians from Ohio American women journalists