Minnie Hafley McCoach Barton was the second female police officer in Los Angeles, the first one being Alice Stebbins Wells, who was the first female cop in the entire nation. Minnie was noted for befriending homeless girls and working with young women on parole or probation, sometimes taking them into her home and giving them vocational training. In 1917, she founded the "Minnie Barton Home." In the early years, she and her co-workers were primarily interested in women just released from jail. Often younger women were committed to the Home in lieu of jail sentences. This facility grew to include care for pregnant women, often left destitute as a result of the father's jail confinement or abandonment. The Home has since expanded and exists today as Children's Institute, Inc. Minnie was born in Linn County, Kansas, and followed her parents to San Marcial, New Mexico, where she married John Alexander Barton, who took her to LA, where they had three children.
See http://www.laalmanac.com/crime/cr73b.htm and http://www.childrensinstitute.org/about/history/
See http://www.laalmanac.com/crime/cr73b.htm and http://www.childrensinstitute.org/about/history/
Minnie Hafley McCoach Barton was the second female police officer in Los Angeles, the first one being Alice Stebbins Wells, who was the first female cop in the entire nation. Minnie was noted for befriending homeless girls and working with young women on parole or probation, sometimes taking them into her home and giving them vocational training. In 1917, she founded the "Minnie Barton Home." In the early years, she and her co-workers were primarily interested in women just released from jail. Often younger women were committed to the Home in lieu of jail sentences. This facility grew to include care for pregnant women, often left destitute as a result of the father's jail confinement or abandonment. The Home has since expanded and exists today as Children's Institute, Inc. Minnie was born in Linn County, Kansas, and followed her parents to San Marcial, New Mexico, where she married John Alexander Barton, who took her to LA, where they had three children.
See http://www.laalmanac.com/crime/cr73b.htm and http://www.childrensinstitute.org/about/history/
See http://www.laalmanac.com/crime/cr73b.htm and http://www.childrensinstitute.org/about/history/
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