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To the rare Few who early in life have rid themselves of the Friendship of the Many, these pathetic papers are inscribed. James Abott McNeill Whistler, was born in 1834, the son of a U.S. Army Engineer. Major George Washington Whistler moved his family to Russia to build railroads for the Czar. Young James learned Russian and French with his devoted mother beside him. So he learned to be a draftsman.