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===Social worker===
===Social worker===
Harry Hopkins was born in [[Sioux City, Iowa]], the fourth child of David Aldona and Anna (née Pickett) Hopkins, devout Methodist parents who taught him the [[Social Gospel]]. He attended [[Grinnell College]] and soon after his graduation in 1912 took a job with Christodora House, a social settlement in New York City's Lower East Side ghetto. In the spring of 1913 he accepted a position with the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (AICP) as "friendly visitor" and superintendent of the Employment Bureau. In October 1913, Harry Hopkins married Ethel Gross and the couple eventually had three sons: David (1914-1980), Robert (1921-2007) and Stephen (1925-1944).
Harry Lloyd Hopkins was born in [[Sioux City, Iowa]], the fourth child of David Aldona and Anna (née Pickett) Hopkins, devout Methodist parents who taught him the [[Social Gospel]]. He attended [[Grinnell College]] and soon after his graduation in 1912 took a job with Christodora House, a social settlement in New York City's Lower East Side ghetto. In the spring of 1913 he accepted a position with the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (AICP) as "friendly visitor" and superintendent of the Employment Bureau. In October 1913, Harry Hopkins married Ethel Gross and the couple eventually had three sons: David (1914-1980), Robert (1921-2007) and Stephen (1925-1944).
In 1915, New York City's Democratic Mayor [[John Purroy Mitchel]] appointed Hopkins executive secretary of the Bureau of Child Welfare which administered pensions to mothers with dependent children.
In 1915, New York City's Democratic Mayor [[John Purroy Mitchel]] appointed Hopkins executive secretary of the Bureau of Child Welfare which administered pensions to mothers with dependent children.