John W. Minto
John Wilson Minto was a law enforcement officer in the U.S. state of Oregon. He served as sheriff of Marion County in the 1880s[1] and as chief of the Portland Police Bureau in the 1890s. His father, John Minto IV, was a well known Oregon pioneer and politician, and his brother Harry Minto was head of the Oregon Department of Corrections. In his memoirs, Oregon governor Oswald West related a story in which Minto, while serving as sheriff, averted a bank robbery in progress.[2]
Minto was born in about 1848 and died in 1926. He was a graduate of Willamette University.[3] His youngest daughter, Lena May, died at age 15.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ "Republican League register, a record of the Republican Party in the state of Oregon". 1896.
- ^ Oswald West: Reminiscences and Anecdotes: The Harding Brothers, Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 4 (Dec., 1951).
- ^ "John W. Minto".
- ^ "Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Lena May Minto ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon".