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"George Evans Cullinan was born in Geneseo, New York on August 5, 1878. He was the son of Daniel Coakley Cullinan and Mary Ann Evans, both natives of County Cork, Ireland. His father came to this country as a young man in the early 1850s and settled on a farm in Livingston County, N.Y. After graduating at the Geneseo normal school, where he had taken both college preparatory and teacher training courses, George E. Cullinan entered William college, where he was graduated A.B. in 1901. During his four undergraduate years he was a star of the football and track teams. In August 1901 he went to New York City and became a stock clerk in the Western Electric Co., manufacturers of telephone equipment and other electrical products, being promoted rapidly to employment agent, shipping clerk, and assistant traffic manager. With the enormous development of electric light and telephone industries during the first decade of the 20th century, Western Electric expanded rapidly, and in the fall of 1907, Cullinan was sent to St. Louis as assistant manager, becoming manager of that branch in May 1909..."

George Cullinan was a life member of the Telephone Pioneers of America as well as the Bankers Club of America. He eventually went on to be an industry spokesman on telephony when he headed up Graybar Electric Company. In addition, he was a director of the Victor Talking Machine Co. He received the McGraw Award in 1930, "for persistent and unselfish labor for the education of the electric industry in the economics of distribution."

He was married in Williamstown, Massachusetts on October 30, 1905 to Mary Elizabeth Neyland and they had seven children: Mary Elizabeth, George Evans, Dorothy Agnes, Charlotte Louise, Helen Frances, Harriet Josephine and Margaret Ruth Cullinan. George Cullinan died on July 25, 1941 in Yonkers, New York.

Source
The National Cyclopedia of American Biography.