Katharine Felton

Katharine Conway "Kitty" Felton (July 7, 1873 – August 8, 1940) was the head of Associated Charities in San Francisco at the turn of the 20th century.

Felton was born in Oakland, California, on July 7, 1873, the daughter of a prominent San Francisco Bay Area family.

In 1902, she created the Children's Service Agency of San Francisco, which developed the first foster care system in California.

[2] Felton drafted nearly all of the State's early legislation covering welfare and relief according to the "Proceedings of the National Conference of Social Work", Volume 13, 1901.

[3] In 1928, with the help of her friend, architect Bernard Maybeck, she built what was the office building of Family Service Agency at 1010 Gough Street in San Francisco.