Hopkins, Ruth Hazen
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1906 June 15 - 1974 July 28
- Usage: 1934
- Usage: 1906 - 1934
Biographical Note
Ruth Hazen Hopkins (née Ruth Hazen), 1906-1974, was a violinist and the daughter of Allen Hazen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She was a graduate of Smith College. After graduation, she worked for a number of publishers in New York. In 1934, she married Frank Snowden Hopkins, a foreign service officer. She later played violin and viola in chamber music groups.
Adapted from: “Ruth Hopkins, Violinist,” Washington Post, July 30, 1974, sec. Obituaries. http://www.proquest.com/hnpwashingtonpost/docview/146166213/abstract/3C1838FDB41B47E0PQ/1
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Allen Hazen papers
Collection
Identifier: MC-0430
Scope and Contents
The papers of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) civil engineering graduate Allen Hazen contain records of his career as a consulting engineer, specializing in water supply and purification. The typescript by Dennis Sebian of his Hazen biography "Pioneer Engineering" in box 26 of the collection provides a detailed analysis of Hazen's importance in the discipline of water engineering in the early twentieth century. Allen Hazen advised a large number of cities and towns in...
Dates:
1883 - 1974