George Matthew Dutcher
George Matthew Dutcher was an American historian and professor at Wesleyan University.
He was born on 16 September 1874, in Pleasant Valley, New York.
He received a BA and a PhD from Cornell University, where he studied under historian George Burr, as well as an LLD from Allegheny College in 1939.
He was a member of the Acorn Club, the Phi Beta Kappa, and was vice-president of the Connecticut Historical Society from 1945 to 1954.
He married Andrienne Van Winkle. He died on February 22, 1959, at Resthaven Hospital in East Hampton, New York.
Works
- The Political Awakening of the East: Studies of Political Progress in Egypt, India, China, Japan, and the Philippines
- A Guide to Historical Literature, editor