Frissell, Hollis Burke

Dr. Hollis B. Frissell was chaplain of Hampton Institute from1880 to 1886 when he was appointed vice-principal. He held this position until the death of General Samuel Chapman Armstrong, in 1893 he was elected by the Board of Trustees to serve as the second principal of Hampton Institute, a position he held until his death. He was a member of the General Education Board; a member and organizer of the Southern Education Board; a member of the Negro Rural School Fund, Anna T. Jeanes Foundation; a chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Calhoun Colored School and the Penn Normal, Industrial and Agricultural School; a trustee of the Virginia Manual Labor School for the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia; president of the New York Colonization Society; a member of the Mandingo Association; and the Mandingo Development Company. Dr. Frissell received many honorary degrees and awards from various institutions including Yale University, Howard University, Harvard University and Richmond College. He also held memberships in well-known organizations such as the Century Association, City Club of New York, Yale club, Barnard of New York and the Cosmopolitan club of Washington, D.C. He married Julia Frame in 1883 and they had one son, Sidney Dodd Frissell.

The papers of Hollis Burke Frissell consist of particularly important, are the volumes of out goingcorrespondence. (See Special Index). Included are handwritten or typewritten letters from W.E.B. DuBois, Arthur Curtiss James, Kelly Miller, George Foster Peabody, John D. Rockefeller, President Theodore Roosevelt and President William Howard Taft.