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Frank Wiggins
A little-known early-20th-century California booster and public writer, best known today for a surviving exposition report rather than a large body of books. His work offers a window into how California presented itself to the wider world at the time.
1 Audiobook
Report of Governor's Representatives for California at Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Commission
by California. Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition commission, J. A. (Joseph Adams) Filcher, Frank Wiggins
About the author
Frank Wiggins appears to have been active in Southern California civic and promotional work in the early 1900s. Sources connect him with the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, where he was credited with helping shape major exhibition displays that promoted California agriculture and industry.
As an author, he is chiefly associated with Report of Governor's Representatives for California at Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Commission, a historical report credited to J. A. Filcher and Frank Wiggins. Modern book and audiobook listings suggest that this document is the main work currently circulating under his name.
There is also evidence that his name lived on locally through the Frank Wiggins Trade School in Los Angeles, which points to his regional prominence. Reliable biographical detail beyond these public connections is limited, so many personal facts about his life remain unclear from the sources reviewed.