Fred Bixby operated five ranches, as well as land companies and banks. He was the director of the California Agricultural Society under five governors.
Bixby graduated from the University of California in 1898 and then went into the livestock and ranching business. His home base was the historic Rancho Los Alamitos on the outskirts of Long Beach, where he lived in an adobe house built in 1778.
On that ranch, originally 30,000 acres, Bixby raised beef cattle, draft horses, mules, hogs, grains and feed. He helped organize the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.
Bixby died in 1952.
