Long Beach's Inspirational Firebrand
by
Marcia Lee Harris
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
The last daughter born to Jotham Bixby, the "Father of Long Beach," Fanny Bixby Spencer (1879-1930) carved her own singular and eccentric path across California history. Born to wealth and power, she chose a boldly independent, egalitarian lifestyle in an age when women's lives were largely confined...