Life of James McNeill Whistler, . iam Gibbs McNeill, a West Point classmate and anassociate in Major Whistlers engineering work. The McNeills weredescended from the McNeills of Skye. Their chief, Donald, emigratedwith sixty of his clan to North Carolina in 1746, and bought land onCape Fear River. Charles Donald McNeill was his grandson and wastwice married ; his second wife, Martha Kingsley, was the motherof Anna Mathilda McNeill, who became Mrs. George WashingtonWhistler. The McNeills were related by marriage to the Fairfaxesand other Virginia families, and Whistler, on his mothers side, wast
Life of James McNeill Whistler, . iam Gibbs McNeill, a West Point classmate and anassociate in Major Whistlers engineering work. The McNeills weredescended from the McNeills of Skye. Their chief, Donald, emigratedwith sixty of his clan to North Carolina in 1746, and bought land onCape Fear River. Charles Donald McNeill was his grandson and wastwice married ; his second wife, Martha Kingsley, was the motherof Anna Mathilda McNeill, who became Mrs. George WashingtonWhistler. The McNeills were related by marriage to the Fairfaxesand other Virginia families, and Whistler, on his mothers side, wasthe Southerner he loved to call himself. In 1834 Major Whistler accepted the post of engineer of locksand canals at Lowell, and to this town he brought his family. There,in the Paul Moody House on Worthen Street, James McNeill Whistlerwas born, and the house is now a Whistler Memorial Museum. Twoyears later the second son, William Gibbs McNeill, was born. In1837 Major Whistler moved to Stonington, Connecticut, and Miss4 [1819-1831. THE MOTHERARRANGEMENT IN GREY AND BLACK OIL In the Musde du Luxembourg {See page 1171 The Whistler Family I Emma W. Palmer and Mk. Dr. Stanton, his wifes nieces, still rememberi his pleasant house on Main Street. It is said that he had a chaisel fitted with car wheels in which he and his family drove every Sundayon the tracks to church at Westerly; also that a locomotive named{ Whistler was in use on the road until recently. He was consultedI in regard to many new lines, among them the Western Railroad ofI Massachusetts, for which he was consulting engineer from 1836 to In 1840 he was made chief engineer, and he removed to Springfield,j Massachusetts, where he lived in the Ethan Chapin Homestead onI Chestnut Street, north of Edward Street. A third son, Kirk Booth,1 born at Stonington in 1838, died at Springfield in 1842, and here afourth son, Charles Donald, was born in 1841. In 1842 Nicholas I. of Russia sent a commission, under ColonelMelniko
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