Biography
Robert W. Minton was an IWW member from Sacramento. Robert W. Minton received a five-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quentin from February 5, 1925, until his term expired.
The International Labor Defense holiday roster in the December 29, 1925 Daily Worker lists this prisoner, printed as R. W. Minton, at San Quentin California. Its printed identifier is 37492; this is a prison number or mailing designation, not a year or a custody date. This documents confinement at the roster’s reporting time, without establishing an admission, transfer, release, new conviction or complete duration. Existing independently sourced custody chronology remains separate. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1925/1925-ny/v02b-n297-NYE-dec-29-1925-DW-LOC.pdf#page=5
The May 1927 Labor Defender explicitly lists Robert W. Minton among prisoners actually released, giving January 25, 1927. This contemporary completed-release report corrects the earlier missing or conflicting endpoint. It does not establish complete continuous custody or turn an imposed term into actual time served. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1927/v02n05-may-1927-LD.pdf#page=11
The February 26, 1924 Daily Worker political-prisoner roster individually prints R. W. Minton with historical prisoner number 37492. The entry appears under San Quentin State Prison, California. This is a contemporary institutional identifier, not a federal BOP register number. No admission or release date, individual sentence length, actual duration, organizational membership or present status is inferred.
Denver’s ILD report specifically selected R. W. Minton at San Quentin, distinct from William Minton in the birthday list. This documents the source’s contemporary custody context without establishing a new admission, precise release or completed-service total.
