Frank Snowden Hopkins (Journalist, author, and philosopher) was born in Gloucester county, Virginia, to Selina Lloyd Hepburn and Nicholas Snowden Hopkins in 1908. A Neiman Fellow at Harvard, Frank went on to become a reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch and the Baltimore Sun. From 1945-1951, he served as the Deputy Director of the Foreign Service Institute. From 1951-1975, he worked as a foreign service agent. From 1975 to his death, he served as vice president of the World Future Society.
This collection contains the family history research notes and manuscripts of Frank Snowden Hopkins. The focus is on his mother's (Selina Lloyd Hepburn Hopkins) family.
The collection is arranged by manuscript, to which there are 2, plus a single folder of miscellaneous notes by the author.
[Item identification], Frank Snowden Hopkins Notes, MS270, Alexandria Library, Local History/Special Collections, Alexandria, VA.
This folder contains a manuscript titled "The Ninety-Two Years of Selina L. Hopkins 1878-1970: A Family Memoir" as well as notes, letters, and receipts surrounding the writing of the memoir, collected and arranged by her children Nina, Sewell, Frank, and Rebecca.
This folder contains a manuscript of the genealogy of Powell and Lloyd families as told by Frank Snowden Hopkins, focusing on the genealogy of his mother, Selina Lloyd Hepburn Hopkins.
This folder contains a variety of notes on the genealogy of the Powell, Lloyd, Sewell, Maslin, and Harper families, as written by Frank Snowden Hopkins.