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Originally Posted by westcork
Trying to find information on 2118 Trinity Street.
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The Minnie Barton Home for Girls was
built at 2118 Trinity Street in 1918 under the auspices of the Big Sister League and the Women's City Club.
Minnie Barton was
"the well known probation officer" from the city jail. In the late teens and early 20s, the Training Home appeared to be a halfway home for young women being released from jail. Its mission was later expanded.
From Minnie Barton's
Find a Grave page:
"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/ "
Much more info on Minnie Barton and the Training Home may be found at this KCET page:
"Parole Officer No. 2: Minnie Barton and the Crusade for Lost Women"
and on google.
I'm sure Ms Barton has come up before here.