Lucy Louisa Coues Flower

Lucy Louisa Coues Flower (born May 10, 1837, probably Boston, Mass., U.S.—died April 27, 1921, Coronado, Calif.) was an American welfare worker, a leader in efforts to provide services for poor and dependent children, to expand the offerings of public education, and to establish a juvenile court system. After a year at Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, New York, in 1856–57, Lucy Coues worked for two years as a draftsman in the U.S. Patent Office...