A local music teacher, Emma Summers, was one of the most successful investors in the first years of the initial boom, and by 1900, Summers controlled half the production in the original Los Angeles Field. For obvious reasons, Summers became known as “California’s Petroleum Queen.”
http://crownhillchronicles.blogspot.ca/2009/11/great-los-angeles-oil-strike.html
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