Fanny Bixby Spencer
Subtitle: Long Beach's inspirational firebrand
By: Marcia Lee Harris
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781609498757
Subjects: Biography; Policewomen; Police; Political activists; Philanthropists
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Finding Fascinating Fanny; title: Part I. The Early Years; title: The Story Begins; title: Sheep and Sheep Shearing; title: Grandfather; title: Fanny's Father; title: The Story of the Lie; title: Fanny's Mother, Her Siblings and the Church; title: Charity and the Neighborhood Lesson; title: Fanny and the President Story; title: Swimming, Shells and Silverheel; title: Part II. The Yound Girl; title: Early School Life and Education; title: New School and Poetry; title: The San Francisco Trip and Band of Hope; title: Womanhood; title: Holidays; title: Fanny and Her Letter Writing; title: Fanny's Uncle Henry and the Bear; title: Part III. Higher Education; title: Boarding School Years; title: The Chicago Trip and Brother's Graduation; title: Fanny and the 1893 World's Fair; title: College Preparatory School; title: The Whale Story and Italy; title: Sister Rosamond's Death in 1899; title: The Wellesley Years and Boston Tenements; title: From San Francisco's Streets to Long Beach's Newsboys; title: Part IV. The Officer and the Activist; title: The Police and Juvenile Court Years, 1908-1911; title: The Years of 1912-1914; title: Fanny's Mother's Car Accident; title: The Suffrage Movement and Trade Unions; title: World War I, Being Antiwar and Other Political Days; title: Part V. The Later Years; title: The Years of Marriage, Family and Neighborhood Children; title: Piney Woods Cotton Blossom Singers; title: Helping Others During the Costa Mesa Years : "Decade of Doing"; title: Mrs. Munson's Son; title: The Final Year : Death and Dying; title: The Will and the Family After Fanny's Death; title: The Years Following Fanny's Death; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix I: Timeline; title: Appendix II: "The Cycle of Life"; title: Appendix III: Bixby Family Tree.