George Matthew Dutcher
{{Short description|American historian (1874–1959)}}
{{Notability|Bio|date=October 2020}}
{{infobox person
| name = George Matthew Dutcher
| spouse = Andrienne Van Winkle
| alma_mater = Cornell University (PhD)
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1874|10|16}}
| birth_place = Pleasant Valley, New York, United States
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1959|02|22|1874|09|16}}
| death_place = East Hampton, New York, United States
}}
George Matthew Dutcher (October 16, 1874 – February 22, 1959) 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 (honorary degree) 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.{{cite web |title=Full text of 'The Annual report of the Connecticut Historical Society' |url=https://archive.org/stream/annualreportofco12conn/annualreportofco12conn_djvu.txt |website=archive.org |year=1894 |publisher=Connecticut Historical Society |accessdate=23 May 2020}}
He married Andrienne Van Winkle. He died on February 22, 1959, at Resthaven Hospital in East Hampton, New York.{{Cite news|date=1959-02-24|title=Obituary for George Matthew Dutcher (Aged 84)|pages=20|work=Poughkeepsie Journal|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61489686/obituary-for-george-matthew-dutcher/|access-date=2020-10-20}}
Works
- The Political Awakening of the East: Studies of Political Progress in Egypt, India, China, Japan, and the Philippines (The Abingdon Press, 1925){{cite web |title=Catalog Record: The political awakening of the East; studies... |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001240276 |website=catalog.hathitrust.org |publisher=Hathi Trust Catalog |accessdate=23 May 2020}}{{Cite journal |last=Andrews |first=Arthur I. |date=August 1925 |title=The Political Awakening of the East. Studies of Political Progress in Egypt, India, China, Japan and the Philippines. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/political-awakening-of-the-east-studies-of-political-progress-in-egypt-india-china-japan-and-the-philippines-by-george-matthew-dutcher-new-york-the-abingdon-press-1925-pp-372/4D03CAC4AF87C8B01EA90FD2B54C105E |journal=American Political Science Review |language=en |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=633–634 |doi=10.2307/2939149 |issn=1537-5943|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Riker |first=T. W. |date=1926-06-01 |title='The Political Awakening of the East; Studies of Political Progress in Egypt, India, China, Japan, and the Philippines'. By George Matthew Dutcher. (New York and Cincinnati: The Abingdon Press, 1925. 372 p. 2) |url=https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/13/1/98/862901?redirectedFrom=fulltext |journal=Journal of American History |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=98–99 |doi=10.2307/1892571 |issn=0021-8723|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Hayden |first=Ralston |date=1926 |title=Review of The Political Awakening of the East: Studies of Political Progress in Egypt, India, China, Japan, and the Philippines, by G. M. Dutcher |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/1016269 |journal=The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |volume=124 |pages=195–196 |jstor=1016269}}
- A Guide to Historical Literature (1937), editor{{cite web |title=A guide to historical literature Catalog Record |url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=acls;cc=acls;view=toc;idno=heb06297.0001.001 |website=quod.lib.umich.edu |publisher=University of Michigan |accessdate=23 May 2020}}{{Cite journal |last=Grose |first=Clyde L. |date=1932-09-01 |title='A Guide to Historical Literature'. Edited by George Matthew Dutcher, Henry Robinson Shipman, Sidney Bradshaw Fay, Augustus Hunt Shearer and William Henry Allison. (New York: Macmillan Company, 1931. xxviii + 1222 pp. $10.50.) |url=https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/19/2/265/787732?redirectedFrom=fulltext |journal=Journal of American History |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=265–267 |doi=10.2307/1891458 |issn=0021-8723|url-access=subscription }}
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Category:People from Pleasant Valley, New York
Category:Wesleyan University faculty
Category:Historians from New York (state)
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