George McCutchen Student Notebooks

George Thomas McCutchen was born in the Indiantown Community of Williamsburg County on April 16, 1876. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1898 and earned his law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1903. He spent several summers studying at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Chicago, and Harvard. He was hired as an instructor in the Economics Department at the University of South Carolina in 1900. He served as head of the Department of Economics from 1910 until he retired in 1948. McCutchen died in Columbia on January 8, 1951. The house in which he lived on the University campus was named the McCutchen House in his honor.

This collection consists of three notebooks. The fist notebook is no longer bound. It includes some notes McCutchen took in a course on international law at the University of Chicago and courses at the University of South Carolina School of Law. Pages 29-30 are missing from this notebook. The second notebook contains notes McCutchen took in courses taught by University of South Carolina School of Law Professor Maurice Herndon Moore from 1901 to 1903. The third notebook contains notes McCutchen took in courses taught by University of South Carolina School of Law Dean Joseph Daniel Pope from 1901 to 1903.

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