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Whistler, George William

engineer, was born in 1822 in New London, Conn. He was connected with various railroads in this country, and was superintendent of the Erie, and New York and New Haven railroads. In the winter of 1856 he went to Russia to take charge of the St. Petersburg and Moscow railroad under the Winans contract. He died Dec. 24, 1869, in England.

WHISTLER, JAMES ABBOTT Mc- NEILL, artist, author, was born in 1834 in Lowell, Mass. He is an artist who from 1863 to 1892 lived in London, and in Paris from the latter date. He is the author of Ten O'Clock; and The Gentle Art of Making Enemies.