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5.CATHERINE2 WHISTLER (JOHN1)51 was born 1788, and died 1874 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan.She married (1) THOMAS HAMILTON, JR.52 August 24, 1806 in Fort Dearborn (Chicago), Cook Co., Illinois53, son of THOMAS HAMILTON and SARAH SEYMOUR.He was born in New York, and died July 30, 1833 in St. Louis Missouri.She married (2) THOMAS HAMILTON, JR.54 August 24, 1806 in Fort Dearborn (Chicago), Cook Co., Illinois55, son of THOMAS HAMILTON and SARAH SEYMOUR.He was born in New York, and died July 30, 1833 in St. Louis Missouri.
Notes for CATHERINE WHISTLER:
Catherine Whistler, daughter of John and Ann (Bishop) Whistler, was born 1788, probably in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland. She married Thomas Hamilton, Jr., a young lieutenant in her father's company, on 24 August 1806 at Fort Dearborn (Chicago). Thomas Hamilton was born in New York, the son of Thomas and Sarah (Seymour) Hamilton. He entered the army as a private in the First Infantry on 2 June 1802. He rose through the ranks, becoming First Lieutenant on 15 December 1808. Lt. Hamilton was charged with conduct unbecoming an officer after challenging Chicago trader John Kinzie to a duel when Kinzie sought to get his father-in-law court court court martialed. In 1810 he was temporarily assigned to Fort Bellefontaine, near St. Louis.
Thomas Hamilton and his family moved to Fort Madison on the banks of the Mississippi, in what is now Iowa. The fort, a rough log barrack and stockade affair, deep in hostile Sauk Indian country was built in 1807 by Colonel Thomas Hunt and a contingent of fifty men and officers from the First Infantry regiment. The fort's sutler was Colonel Hunt's son, George Hunt and the Government Factor was John W. Johnson. In 1811, George Hunt and Johnson formed a partnership and Hunt travelled north along the Mississippi to establish a trading post near Galena. In the fall of 1812, when hostilities broke out, a
band of Winnebago Indians attacked the post and killed and scalped all of the men, except George Hunt, who they thought was English. After they had raided the trading post and gotten drunk, Hunt escaped and made his way 250 miles back to Fort Madison in the midst of winter. Lt. Hamilton who was in command of the fort, wrote, "George Hunt is here a poor distressed creature, without a cent or a good suit of clothes."
In September of 1812, Fort Madison was attacked by two hundred Sauk and Fox Indians. Hamilton and his troops successfully repulsed the three-day attack. The small fort could not withstand a major siege, so Lt. Hamilton had the outpost set afire rather than have it fall into the hands of the British and their Indian allies. The inhabitants of the fort safely made their escape down the Mississippi.
Thomas Hamilton was promoted to Captain on 21 February 1814. He was honorably discharged in 1815, when the army was reduced in size, but was reinstated in the Sixth Infantry on 29 April 1823. He continued in the service until 16 August 1828, when he resigned his commission with the brevet rank of Major.
Thomas Hamilton died in St. Louis on 30 July 1833. After the death of her husband, Catherine Hamilton lived with her daughters in Albany and New York City. On 8 February 1853, she applied for bounty land authorized by the Act of 1853. She stated that she was sixty-three years of age and a resident of Albany, although she was spending the winter in New York City. Catherine Whistler was granted a 160 acre bounty land permit, Warrant No. 23625.
Catherine Hamilton was residing at 77 Lafayette Street in Detroit, Michigan when she applied for a widow's pension on 26 February 1874. In this record she stated her age as eighty-five. Proof of the marriage was testified to by her sister, Sarah (Whistler) Abbott and her sister-in-law, Julia (Fearson) Whistler. Catherine was awarded a widow's pension of $8.00 per month on 2 April 1874. She died in Detroit in October of that year. Catherine Hamilton is buried at St. Paul's Cathedral in Detroit on 15 October 1874.
In his "Whistler Family Genealogy," James Whistler Wood listed six children of Thomas and Catherine Hamilton: Joseph V., James, Henry, Elizabeth, Catherine Ann and Abbie. However, in her mother's application for a widow's pension, daughter Catherine (Hamilton) Anderson stated that she had two brothers and one sister older than herself, all of whom lived to be grown but were dead now (1874).
Sources: Wood, p. 5, 18019; Hamersly, p. 487; Widow's Pension, Thomas Hamilton file, no 10719; Bounty Land Warrant Application, Thomas Hamilton file, no. 23625-160; Burial record of Catherine Hamilton,as printed in Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, vol. 28, no. 1, p. 51; Old Fort Madison, in Iowa and War Series, No. 7, p. 28-29.
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Catherine Whistler, daughter of John and Ann (Bishop) Whistler, was born 1788, probably in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland. She married Thomas Hamilton, Jr., a young lieutenant in her father's company, on 24 August 1806 at Fort Dearborn (Chicago). Thomas Hamilton was born in New York, the son of Thomas and Sarah (Seymour) Hamilton. He entered the army as a private in the First Infantry on 2 June 1802. He rose through the ranks, becoming First Lieutenant on 15 December 1808. Lt. Hamilton was charged with conduct unbecoming an officer after challenging Chicago trader John Kinzie to a duel when Kinzie sought to get his father-in-law court court court martialed. In 1810 he was temporarily assigned to Fort Bellefontaine, near St. Louis.
Thomas Hamilton and his family moved to Fort Madison on the banks of the Mississippi, in what is now Iowa. The fort, a rough log barrack and stockade affair, deep in hostile Sauk Indian country was built in 1807 by Colonel Thomas Hunt and a contingent of fifty men and officers from the First Infantry regiment. The fort's sutler was Colonel Hunt's son, George Hunt and the Government Factor was John W. Johnson. In 1811, George Hunt and Johnson formed a partnership and Hunt travelled north along the Mississippi to establish a trading post near Galena. In the fall of 1812, when hostilities broke out, a
band of Winnebago Indians attacked the post and killed and scalped all of the men, except George Hunt, who they thought was English. After they had raided the trading post and gotten drunk, Hunt escaped and made his way 250 miles back to Fort Madison in the midst of winter. Lt. Hamilton who was in command of the fort, wrote, "George Hunt is here a poor distressed creature, without a cent or a good suit of clothes."
In September of 1812, Fort Madison was attacked by two hundred Sauk and Fox Indians. Hamilton and his troops successfully repulsed the three-day attack. The small fort could not withstand a major siege, so Lt. Hamilton had the outpost set afire rather than have it fall into the hands of the British and their Indian allies. The inhabitants of the fort safely made their escape down the Mississippi.
Thomas Hamilton was promoted to Captain on 21 February 1814. He was honorably discharged in 1815, when the army was reduced in size, but was reinstated in the Sixth Infantry on 29 April 1823. He continued in the service until 16 August 1828, when he resigned his commission with the brevet rank of Major.
Thomas Hamilton died in St. Louis on 30 July 1833. After the death of her husband, Catherine Hamilton lived with her daughters in Albany and New York City. On 8 February 1853, she applied for bounty land authorized by the Act of 1853. She stated that she was sixty-three years of age and a resident of Albany, although she was spending the winter in New York City. Catherine Whistler was granted a 160 acre bounty land permit, Warrant No. 23625.
Catherine Hamilton was residing at 77 Lafayette Street in Detroit, Michigan when she applied for a widow's pension on 26 February 1874. In this record she stated her age as eighty-five. Proof of the marriage was testified to by her sister, Sarah (Whistler) Abbott and her sister-in-law, Julia (Fearson) Whistler. Catherine was awarded a widow's pension of $8.00 per month on 2 April 1874. She died in Detroit in October of that year. Catherine Hamilton is buried at St. Paul's Cathedral in Detroit on 15 October 1874.
In his "Whistler Family Genealogy," James Whistler Wood listed six children of Thomas and Catherine Hamilton: Joseph V., James, Henry, Elizabeth, Catherine Ann and Abbie. However, in her mother's application for a widow's pension, daughter Catherine (Hamilton) Anderson stated that she had two brothers and one sister older than herself, all of whom lived to be grown but were dead now (1874).
Sources: Wood, p. 5, 18019; Hamersly, p. 487; Widow's Pension, Thomas Hamilton file, no 10719; Bounty Land Warrant Application, Thomas Hamilton file, no. 23625-160; Burial record of Catherine Hamilton,as printed in Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, vol. 28, no. 1, p. 51; Old Fort Madison, in Iowa and War Series, No. 7, p. 28-29.
Children of CATHERINE WHISTLER and THOMAS HAMILTON are:
22. | i. | CAROLINE FRANCES3 HAMILTON, b. 1809; d. 1848. | |
ii. | JOSEPH V. HAMILTON56. |
Notes for JOSEPH V. HAMILTON: No family. Wood, p. 18.[whistler2.FBK] No family. Wood, p. 18. |
23. | iii. | JAMES HAMILTON. | |
iv. | HENRY HAMILTON56. |
Notes for HENRY HAMILTON: No family. Wood, p. 18.[whistler2.FBK] No family. Wood, p. 18. |
24. | v. | CATHERINE ANNE HAMILTON, b. August 15, 1814. | |
25. | vi. | ABBIE HAMILTON. |
6.ELIZA2 WHISTLER (JOHN1)57 was born Abt. 1791, and died June 04, 1823 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.She married DANIEL CURTIS.He died Bet. 1833 - 1834 in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.
Notes for ELIZA WHISTLER:
Eliza Whistler, daughter of John and Ann (Bishop) Whistler was born ca. 1791- 1794. She married Daniel Curtis, an ensign in the First Infantry. Curtis had come from the East to Detroit, where he had taught school before joining the army during the War of 1812. Curtis was present at the siege of Fort Wayne and, with the other officers, prevented Captain James Oscar Rhea from surrendering the fort to the Indians. Daniel Curtis attained the rank of Captain and was temporary commander of Fort Wayne from 15 February to 31 May 1817.
In the early 1820's, the Curtis family was residing at Green Bay (Wisconsin). On 4 June 1823, Eliza Curtis was fatally struck by lightning near her home in Green Bay. Daniel Curtis was dismissed from the service on 8 January 1823, for reasons unknown. The following year he moved to Prairie du Chien where he taught school. Curtis died there during the winter of 1833/1834.
Daniel and Eliza (Whistler) Curtis are said to have had four or five children. One son was drowned as a young man. The names of only two children are known: Cadamus and Irene. Irene married General Daniel Rucker, Quartermaster General of the United States Army. Their daughter, Irene Rucker, married Philip H. Sheridan, who would gain fame in the Civil War as the commander of the Army of the Shenandoah.
Sources: Wood, p. 6, 20; Hamersly, p. 388; Brevoort, Wisconsin Historical Collections, vol. VIII, p. 303; Ellis, Wisconsin Historical Collections, vol. VII, p. 229n.
Children of ELIZA WHISTLER and DANIEL CURTIS are:
i. | CADAMUS3 CURTIS. | ||
26. | ii. | IRENE CURTIS, d. Bef. 1903. |
7.ANN2 WHISTLER (JOHN1) was born September 01, 1794 in Fort Washington (Cincinatti, Ohio), and died March 29, 1829 in Litchfield, Connecticut.She married ORMOND MARSH January 06, 1812 in Detroit, Michigan, son of ASHBEL MARSH and RACHEL SHETHER.He was born November 05, 1787 in Litchfield, Connecticut, and died 1854.
Notes for ANN WHISTLER:
Ann Whistler, daughter of John and Ann (Bishop) Whistler, was born in 1795 at Fort Washington (near present-day Cincinnati). On 6 January 1812, at Detroit, she married Ormand Marsh, an officer in her father's regiment. Marsh was born in Connecticut and joined the army from that state. He was made ensign in the First Infantry on 30 March 1814 and first lieutenant on 30 March 1814. Marsh was discharged from the army on 15 June 1815.
Sources: Wood, p. 7, 21; Hamersly, p. 603; Gardner, p. ; Marsh Genealogy, Giving Serveral Thousand Descendants of John Marsh of Hartford, Ct. 1636-1895, by Dwight W. Marsh, 1895.
Children of ANN WHISTLER and ORMOND MARSH are:
27. | i. | GEORGE3 MARSH, b. December 06, 1821, Litchfield, Connecticut. | |
28. | ii. | HARRIET ANN MARSH, b. March 02, 1818, Litchfield, Connecticut. | |
iii. | JOHN WHISTLER SHETHAR MARSH58, b. April 06, 1814, Litchfield, Connecticut; d. February 11, 1815. | ||
iv. | MARY RACHEL JONES MARSH59, b. October 04, 1816, Litchfield, Connecticut; d. February 04, 1817. | ||
v. | JAMES ORMOND MARSH, b. March 29, 1824, Litchfield, Connecticut; m. MINERVA LOUISE ATWOOD. | ||
vi. | WILLIAM BISHOP MARSH, b. March 08, 1829; d. March 29, 1829. |
8.GEORGE WASHINGTON2 WHISTLER (JOHN1)60 was born May 19, 1800 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and died April 07, 1849 in St. Petersburg, Russia61.He married (1) MARY ROBERDEAU SWIFT62 January 23, 1821, daughter of FOSTER SWIFT and DEBORAH DELANO.She was born 180462, and died December 09, 182762.He married (2) ANNA MATHILDA MCNEILL63 November 03, 1831, daughter of CHARLES MCNEILL and MARTHA KINGSLEY.She was born September 27, 1804 in Wilmington, North Carolina64, and died January 31, 1881 in Hastings, England.
Notes for GEORGE WASHINGTON WHISTLER:
George Washington Whistler, son of John Whistler and Ann (Bishop) Whistler, was born on 19 May 1800 at Fort Wayne (Indiana). As a child of three, he accompanied his parents on their journey to the Illinois wilderness, where his father had orders to build Fort Dearborn on the banks of the Chicago River. He spent his early years at various frontier fortifications in the Midwest where his father was stationed. George Washington Whistler was appointed to the United States Military Academy from Newport Barracks, Kentucky in 1814. He graduated from West Point in 1819, ranking twelfth academically,in a class of 29. In the subject of drawing, he ranked first in his class. His classmates nicknamed him "Pipes" for his proficiency with the flute.
Upon graduation, George W. Whistler was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Artillery. Except for a five month period in 1822 in which he was a West Point drawing instructor, from 1819 to 1826 he was employed as a topographical engineer responsible for drawing maps of physical terrain in the various regions that the army was surveying. George Whistler met his first wife, Mary Swift, when he was a cadet at West Point. Her brother Joseph was the Academy's superintendent and another brother, William, was a fellow classmate of Whistler's. Mary Swift was the daughter of Major General Foster Swift of the United States Army and his wife Deborah (Delano) Swift. George Washington Whistler and the "beautiful, spirited, vivacious" Mary Swift were married on 23 January 1821. Mary (Swift) Whistler died in 1827, leaving George Whistler with three young children: Deborah Delano, George William and Joseph Swift Whistler.
George Washington Whistler became involved with the construction of railroads through a connection with a fellow West Point graduate, Captain William Gibbs McNeill. In the late 1820's, the army was authorized to aid private companies in the building of railroads. The Baltimore & Ohio was the first to be chartered in the United States. In 1828, the B. & O. sent McNeill, Whistler and a civilian locomotive builder, Ross Winans to England to study the latest developments in railroad construction. Upon his return to America, William was promoted to First Lieutenant.
George Whistler married his second wife, Anna McNeill, on 3 November 1831. She was the sister of George's partner, William McNeill, and the daughter of Dr. Daniel McNeill and Martha (Kingsley) McNeill of Wilmington, North Carolina. Anna (McNeill) Whistler has been described as "a plain-featured, austere, humorless religious fanatic."
On 31 December 1833, George Whistler resigned his commission in the army to pursue a more lucrative career as a civilian engineer. He worked for the Boston and Lowell Railroad as supervisor machine shop, where locomotives were assembled. The family moved to Lowell, Massachusetts in 1834, where their son, James Abbott Whistler, was born on July 11th. James Abbott McNeill Whistler (he appended the name "McNeill" later in life) became a famous painter and etcher in the last quarter of the 19th century. On 22 July 1836, a second son, William Gibbs Whistler was born. In 1837, George
Whistler accepted a position with the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad, and the family moved to Stonington, Connecticut. At Stonington, George and Anna's son Kirk Boott Whistler was born 16 July 1838. George's son by his first marriage, Joseph Swift Whistler, died of typhoid at Stonington on 1 January 1840. The family moved again in 1841, to Springfield, Massachusetts, when George Whistler became chief engineer with the Boston and Albany Railroad. In Springfield, son Charles Donald was born on 27 August 1841. On 10 July 1842, the Whistlers' son, Kirk, died. It was at Springfield that George Washington hosted a visit from some Russian engineers, who were touring America on behalf of Tsar
Nicholas I, who wished to build a railway to connect St. Petersburg and Moscow.
In January of 1842, Whistler was hired by the Russians to act as foreign consultant on the railway project. He traveled alone to St. Petersburg, where he oversaw the manufacturing and construction of the 420-mile track for the Russian National Railroad, as well as the locomotives and cars. Whistler's family joined him in Russia in 1843, after a short visit with Anna's stepsisters in England. While en route to Russia, son Charles Donald Whistler died on 24 September 1843, aboard ship on the Baltic Sea.
The Whistler's resided in St. Petersburg in the English Quay. George and Anna's youngest child, John Bouttatz Whistler was born there 29 August 1845 but died the following year, 14 October 1846. In 1848, Russia experienced influenza and cholera epidemics and Whistler decided to send his family to England. George Whistler stayed in St. Petersburg to continue his work on the railroad. He contracted cholera in September 1848. After many months of illness, he died of heart failure on 7 April 1849. His body was shipped to America and buried at Stonington, Connecticut. Anna Whistler returned to America
to raise her two remaining sons, James and William. She died in England, age seventy-five, on 31 January 1881 and is buried at Hastings, England.
George Washington Whistler's biographer, George L. Vose, described him as a man with "a keen sense of humor and unfailing tact, fond of personal anecdote, and a mind stored with recollections from association with every grade of society, he was a most engaging companion."
Sources: Fleming, James Abbott McNeill Whistler: A Life; Wood, p. 7-8,22-23; Vose, p. 40-41; Whistlers and Further Family, p. 7.
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George Washington Whistler, son of John Whistler and Ann (Bishop) Whistler, was born on 19 May 1800 at Fort Wayne (Indiana). As a child of three, he accompanied his parents on their journey to the Illinois wilderness, where his father had orders to build Fort Dearborn on the banks of the Chicago River. He spent his early years at various frontier fortifications in the Midwest where his father was stationed. George Washington Whistler was appointed to the United States Military Academy from Newport Barracks, Kentucky in 1814. He graduated from West Point in 1819, ranking twelfth academically,in a class of 29. In the subject of drawing, he ranked first in his class. His classmates nicknamed him "Pipes" for his proficiency with the flute.
Upon graduation, George W. Whistler was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Artillery. Except for a five month period in 1822 in which he was a West Point drawing instructor, from 1819 to 1826 he was employed as a topographical engineer responsible for drawing maps of physical terrain in the various regions that the army was surveying. George Whistler met his first wife, Mary Swift, when he was a cadet at West Point. Her brother Joseph was the Academy's superintendent and another brother, William, was a fellow classmate of Whistler's. Mary Swift was the daughter of Major General Foster Swift of the United States Army and his wife Deborah (Delano) Swift. George Washington Whistler and the "beautiful, spirited, vivacious" Mary Swift were married on 23 January 1821. Mary (Swift) Whistler died in 1827, leaving George Whistler with three young children: Deborah Delano, George William and Joseph Swift Whistler.
George Washington Whistler became involved with the construction of railroads through a connection with a fellow West Point graduate, Captain William Gibbs McNeill. In the late 1820's, the army was authorized to aid private companies in the building of railroads. The Baltimore & Ohio was the first to be chartered in the United States. In 1828, the B. & O. sent McNeill, Whistler and a civilian locomotive builder, Ross Winans to England to study the latest developments in railroad construction. Upon his return to America, William was promoted to First Lieutenant.
George Whistler married his second wife, Anna McNeill, on 3 November 1831. She was the sister of George's partner, William McNeill, and the daughter of Dr. Daniel McNeill and Martha (Kingsley) McNeill of Wilmington, North Carolina. Anna (McNeill) Whistler has been described as "a plain-featured, austere, humorless religious fanatic."
On 31 December 1833, George Whistler resigned his commission in the army to pursue a more lucrative career as a civilian engineer. He worked for the Boston and Lowell Railroad as supervisor machine shop, where locomotives were assembled. The family moved to Lowell, Massachusetts in 1834, where their son, James Abbott Whistler, was born on July 11th. James Abbott McNeill Whistler (he appended the name "McNeill" later in life) became a famous painter and etcher in the last quarter of the 19th century. On 22 July 1836, a second son, William Gibbs Whistler was born. In 1837, George
Whistler accepted a position with the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad, and the family moved to Stonington, Connecticut. At Stonington, George and Anna's son Kirk Boott Whistler was born 16 July 1838. George's son by his first marriage, Joseph Swift Whistler, died of typhoid at Stonington on 1 January 1840. The family moved again in 1841, to Springfield, Massachusetts, when George Whistler became chief engineer with the Boston and Albany Railroad. In Springfield, son Charles Donald was born on 27 August 1841. On 10 July 1842, the Whistlers' son, Kirk, died. It was at Springfield that George Washington hosted a visit from some Russian engineers, who were touring America on behalf of Tsar
Nicholas I, who wished to build a railway to connect St. Petersburg and Moscow.
In January of 1842, Whistler was hired by the Russians to act as foreign consultant on the railway project. He traveled alone to St. Petersburg, where he oversaw the manufacturing and construction of the 420-mile track for the Russian National Railroad, as well as the locomotives and cars. Whistler's family joined him in Russia in 1843, after a short visit with Anna's stepsisters in England. While en route to Russia, son Charles Donald Whistler died on 24 September 1843, aboard ship on the Baltic Sea.
The Whistler's resided in St. Petersburg in the English Quay. George and Anna's youngest child, John Bouttatz Whistler was born there 29 August 1845 but died the following year, 14 October 1846. In 1848, Russia experienced influenza and cholera epidemics and Whistler decided to send his family to England. George Whistler stayed in St. Petersburg to continue his work on the railroad. He contracted cholera in September 1848. After many months of illness, he died of heart failure on 7 April 1849. His body was shipped to America and buried at Stonington, Connecticut. Anna Whistler returned to America
to raise her two remaining sons, James and William. She died in England, age seventy-five, on 31 January 1881 and is buried at Hastings, England.
George Washington Whistler's biographer, George L. Vose, described him as a man with "a keen sense of humor and unfailing tact, fond of personal anecdote, and a mind stored with recollections from association with every grade of society, he was a most engaging companion."
Sources: Fleming, James Abbott McNeill Whistler: A Life; Wood, p. 7-8,22-23; Vose, p. 40-41; Whistlers and Further Family, p. 7.
Notes for MARY ROBERDEAU SWIFT:
"Mary Swift was the first wife of George Washington Whistler.The daughter of Dr. Foster Swift of the United States army, she was 'beautiful and gay' and 'took West Point campus by storm'.
...Mary and 'Pipes" - as he was known on account of his flute-playing - were married in 1821, Mary's father deploring the match on the grounds that the young couple were 'without adequate means of housekeeping'.However Mary's family soon had 'a favourable estimate of the worth and ability of Mr. Whistler'.
Whistler's mother, Anna McNeill, was a close friend of Mary Whistler and often visited the family during George Whistler's frequent absences on topographical duties.On her deathbed Mary is said to have told her husband that if he were to marry again his wife should be Anna McNeill."
Source: Whistlers and Further Family, p. 11.[whistler2.FBK]
"Mary Swift was the first wife of George Washington Whistler.The daughter of Dr. Foster Swift of the United States army, she was 'beautiful and gay' and 'took West Point campus by storm'.
...Mary and 'Pipes" - as he was known on account of his flute-playing - were married in 1821, Mary's father deploring the match on the grounds that the young couple were 'without adequate means of housekeeping'.However Mary's family soon had 'a favourable estimate of the worth and ability of Mr. Whistler'.
Whistler's mother, Anna McNeill, was a close friend of Mary Whistler and often visited the family during George Whistler's frequent absences on topographical duties.On her deathbed Mary is said to have told her husband that if he were to marry again his wife should be Anna McNeill."
Source: Whistlers and Further Family, p. 11.
Notes for ANNA MATHILDA MCNEILL:
"Anna Mathilda McNeill was born on 27 September 1804 in Wilmington, North Carolina, one of the six children of Dr. Charles McNeill and his beautiful wife Martha Kinsgley.The family were devout Episcopalians, and Anna's faith was of the staunchest kind that the deaths of three of her sons in infancy deemed only to strengthen.In 1814 the family moved to New York where Dr. McNeill continued his research on yellow fever.
From her brother William's letters from West Point Anna had heard a great deal of George Washington Whistler, a fellow cadet, and they met when William brought his friend home for a vacation visit.George Whistler apparently made a great impression on the young Anna and in 1821 he married her friend Mary Swift.Six years later Mary Whistler died, leaving three children, and Anna took her place.
Anna married George Whistler in 1831 and began a nomadic life that was the result of her husband's profession.James and William, the older sons of the marriage, were born in Lowell, and the family also lived in Stonington, and Springfield.Major Whistler left for Russia in the summer of 1842 and Anna followed a year later with her own children and her step-daughter Deborah; her step-son George William escorted them for most of the journey....Biographers have not agreed over Anna's character; she has been seen as a strict and joyless puritan, or as 'one of the saints upon earth'.The modesty and severity of her looks and dress were such that her sister-in-law 'frankly held it a vice to dress one's hair so plainly'....
After several years of poor health and failing eyesight Anna died at Hastings (England) on 31 January 1881.
Whistler's 'Arrangement in grey and black no. 1: the artist's mother has become a symbol of venerable motherhood and in 1934, the centenary of the artist's birth, the portrait was reproduced on American postage stamps issued for Mother's Day.Like its subject, the portrait was much travelled;...today it hangs in the Louvre."
Source: Whistlers and Further Family, p. 3-4.[whistler2.FBK]
"Anna Mathilda McNeill was born on 27 September 1804 in Wilmington, North Carolina, one of the six children of Dr. Charles McNeill and his beautiful wife Martha Kinsgley.The family were devout Episcopalians, and Anna's faith was of the staunchest kind that the deaths of three of her sons in infancy deemed only to strengthen.In 1814 the family moved to New York where Dr. McNeill continued his research on yellow fever.
From her brother William's letters from West Point Anna had heard a great deal of George Washington Whistler, a fellow cadet, and they met when William brought his friend home for a vacation visit.George Whistler apparently made a great impression on the young Anna and in 1821 he married her friend Mary Swift.Six years later Mary Whistler died, leaving three children, and Anna took her place.
Anna married George Whistler in 1831 and began a nomadic life that was the result of her husband's profession.James and William, the older sons of the marriage, were born in Lowell, and the family also lived in Stonington, and Springfield.Major Whistler left for Russia in the summer of 1842 and Anna followed a year later with her own children and her step-daughter Deborah; her step-son George William escorted them for most of the journey....Biographers have not agreed over Anna's character; she has been seen as a strict and joyless puritan, or as 'one of the saints upon earth'.The modesty and severity of her looks and dress were such that her sister-in-law 'frankly held it a vice to dress one's hair so plainly'....
After several years of poor health and failing eyesight Anna died at Hastings (England) on 31 January 1881.
Whistler's 'Arrangement in grey and black no. 1: the artist's mother has become a symbol of venerable motherhood and in 1934, the centenary of the artist's birth, the portrait was reproduced on American postage stamps issued for Mother's Day.Like its subject, the portrait was much travelled;...today it hangs in the Louvre."
Source: Whistlers and Further Family, p. 3-4.
Children of GEORGE WHISTLER and MARY SWIFT are:
29. | i. | GEORGE WILLIAM3 WHISTLER, b. 1822, New London, Connecticut; d. December 24, 1869, Brighton, England. | |
ii. | JOSEPH SWIFT WHISTLER65, b. August 12, 1824; d. WFT Est. 1825-1914. | ||
30. | iii. | DEBORAH DELANO WHISTLER, b. October 05, 1826; d. 1908. |
Children of GEORGE WHISTLER and ANNA MCNEILL are:
31. | iv. | JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL3 WHISTLER, b. July 10, 1834, Lowell, Massachusetts; d. July 17, 1903, London, England. | |
v. | WILLIAM MCNEILL WHISTLER, b. July 22, 1836, Lowell, Massachusetts; d. February 27, 1900, probably England.; m. (1) FLORIDA KING, WFT Est. 1852-1862; b. WFT Est. 1832-1850; d. 1863; m. (2) HELEN IONIDES, April 17, 1877, St. George's, Hanover Square and at the Greek Church, London Wall.; b. WFT Est. 1832-1860; d. WFT Est. 1882-1948. |
vi. | KIRK BOOTT WHISTLER, b. July 16, 1838, Stonington, Connecticut; d. July 10, 1842, Springfield, Massachusetts. |
vii. | CHARLES DONALD WHISTLER, b. August 27, 1841, Springfield, Massachusetts; d. September 24, 1843, On board a ship, Baltic Sea. |
viii. | JOHN BOUTTATZ WHISTLER66, b. August 29, 1845, St. Petersburg, Russia; d. October 14, 1846, St Petersburg, Russia. |
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