Mama Minnie Field: Mother to hundreds of Alaska's needy children
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Minnie Field was born June 1, 1892 in Belfast Ireland. In 1909 at the age of 17 she emigrated to Canada and by 1919 found herself working as a cook in the Golden North Hotel in Skagway. She also worked in Atlin and later in Juneau. In Juneau Minnie became known as one of the best cooks in town, and baked a cake for President Harding when he passed through in 1923. After she had worked at the Juneau jail for about seven years, her duties were increased to include caring for prisoners' children. At the time, Juneau had no orphanage, designated child care system or foster home program. Minnie began caring for several tots; she laid them side-by-side, crosswise in her bed, and slept on the floor. She worked tirelessly to house and feed the city's children through her own and later government help. She is a largely overlooked heroine - not a politician or an activist, not a teacher or a missionary - but a woman who contributed a great deal to the "least of them," Alaska's needy children, many racially mixed.
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