Cuttino, George Peddy

George Peddy Cuttino, educator and historian, was born 9 March 1914, in Newnan, Georgia, and died 4 October 1991 in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from Swarthmore College (1935), University of Iowa (1936), Oxford University (1938) and did post-doctoral study at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London (1938-1939). He was a professor of history at University of Iowa (1939-42; 1946), Bryn Mawr College and Swarthmore College (1946-1952), and at Emory University (1952-1984). Cuttino was also a Rhodes Scholar (1936-1939), a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow (1947-1948; 1953-1954), and a recipient of the Haskins Medal from from the Medieval Academy of America (1979). Among other honors and honorary positions Cuttino held at Emory University are the Candler Chair in Medieval History (1980), and the position of Chief Marshal (1976-1984). In addition to being a scholar of medieval history, he is a genealogist and the author of SADDLE BAGS AND SPINNING WHEEL, the collected letters of his grandparents, and a HISTORY OF THE CUTTINO FAMILY.

From the description of George Peddy Cuttino papers, 1930-1990. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123458843