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Harry Hopkins grew up in a large, closely-knit household that contained three generations. The family was bound together by moral lessons taught by his parents, David Aldona and Anna Pickett Hopkins, lessons that were drawn from the experiences of their forebears. Although the Hopkins and Picketts originally came from Scotland, England, and Canada, it was the American Midwest that molded Hopkins into an urban social worker and federal relief administrator. From his Iowa roots, Hopkins absorbed some of his mother’s Methodist teachings, his father’s cynicism, his sister’s commitment to social service, and his college’s Social Gospel message that rallied Christians to the cause of reform, and combined them with his own idealism and ambition.
What men say and think about the operations of oxygen and hydrogen makes no difference to the phenomena; but what men say and think about the relations of capitalists and employees does make a difference.
—Professor Jesse Macy, Grinnell College
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For a time Grinnell had been a stop on the Underground Railroad. The institution took the name of Iowa College; although it was commonly referred to as Grinnell, it did not formally adopt that name until 1909. See “Grinnell College Timeline” and John Shalte Nollen, Grinnell College (Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1953). No faculty and no students went from Davenport to Grinnell. McJimsey, 8. Nollen, 100–104.
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See Susan Curtis, A Consuming Faith: The Social Gospel and Modern American Culture (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991) for an enlightening discussion of women in the Social Gospel movement and the influence of novelist Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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Hopkins, J. (1999). From the Dakotas to Grinnell, Iowa. In: Harry Hopkins. The World of the Roosevelts. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-10580-6_2
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