Emma Summers

Emma Summers (née McCutchen, 1858 – 1941) was an American oil tycoon in the 1890s and the early years of the twentieth century.

Emma Summers and her husband eventually settled in Los Angeles, where she taught piano.

[1] The following year, in 1893, she used $700 that she had earned in her piano teaching business to invest in half ownership of a well near her Los Angeles home.

As a Sunset magazine article from 1912 later reported, "She was an expert in testing oil, hired all the men" and was involved in every part of the business.

The San Francisco Call said she was "A woman with a genius for affairs," adding that "it may sound paradoxical, but the fact exists.