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In Africa By John McCutcheon


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IN AFRICA

Hunting Adventures in the
Big Game Country


...An artist, illustrator, reporter, editorial cartoonist, and adventurer who traveled the world.

John T McCutcheon

John Tinney McCutcheon was born May 6 1870 in Indiana. In 1889 he graduated from Purdue University, and moved to Chicago to work for the Chicago Morning News.

His first trip abroad was in 1895 with his good friend and fellow Purdue alumnus George Ade. After getting a taste of travel in Europe he decided to expand his horizons, and in 1898, acting as an artist-reporter for the Record, he embarked on a world tour aboard the naval ship McCulloch. Due to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, McCutcheon instead spent almost two years in the Philippines, covering the conflict for the newspaper.

In a short break in those two years McCutcheon was also sent to the Transvaal, South Africa to cover the Boer War.

When McCutcheon left the Chicago Record to work for the Chicago Tribune in 1903, he continued to travel widely, covering World War I events among others while still drawing front-page editorial cartoons on an almost daily basis.

His long tenure at the Tribune, from 1903 to 1946, helped to win him the title “Dean of American Cartoonists.” He won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1931 editorial cartoon captioned, “A Wise Economist Asks a Question,” and his cartoon entitled “Injun Summer”, first run in 1912, was so popular it was occasionally reprinted by the Tribune, as well as other papers, for decades.

McCutcheon married Evelyn Shaw, daughter of Chicago architect Howard Van Doren Shaw, on January 20, 1917. They honeymooned on an island in the Bahamas that McCutcheon had recently purchased, called Salt Cay (informally renamed “Treasure Island.”) They had three sons (John Jr., Shaw, and Barr) and one daughter, Evelyn (called Shirley in one letter) who died while still a small child. The McCutcheons settled in Lake Forest, Illinois, and were members of many prominent social clubs around Chicago. John T. McCutcheon retired from the Chicago Tribune in 1946, and died June 10, 1949. Evelyn Shaw McCutcheon died in 1977.

In Africa by John McCutcheon is a fascinating, light-hearted account of a 4 1/2 month hunting safari in East Africa in 1909. John McCutcheon accompanied Mr and Mrs Carl Akeley and Mr Stephenson, an experienced hunter on a hunt outfitted by Newland & Tarlton. They were gathering specimens for the Roosevelt Hall at the American Museum of Natural History and were in Africa at the time of Theodore Roosevelt's famed safari. Illustrated with McCutcheon's humorous cartoons and photographs.

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