Editing J. Paul Getty (section)

== Background ==
Getty was born in [[Minneapolis]] to Sarah Catherine McPherson (Risher) and [[George Getty|George Franklin Getty]], who was an attorney in the insurance industry. He grew up as a [[Methodist]]; his father was a devout [[Christian Scientist]] and both his father and mother were strict [[teetotalers]]. Jean was of part [[Scottish American|Scottish]] descent.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=2019 |title=The McPherson ancestry of the Getty Family |magazine=Creag Dubh |number=71 |page=62 |publisher=Clan MacPherson Association}}</ref> In 1903, when Jean was 10 years old, his father traveled to [[Bartlesville, Oklahoma]] and bought the [[mineral rights]] for 1,100 acres of land. The Getty family then moved to Bartlesville, where J. Paul Getty attended the Garfield School. Within a few years Getty had established wells on the land which produced 100,000 barrels of [[crude oil]] a month.<ref name="Pearson1995">{{cite book |last=Pearson |first=John |date=1995 |title=Painfully Rich: J. Paul Getty and his heirs |publisher=HarperCollins| isbn=9780333590331}}</ref>{{rp|page=20}}

As newly minted millionaires, the family moved to [[Los Angeles]], but J. Paul Getty later returned to [[Oklahoma]]. At age 14, he attended the [[Harvard Military School]] for a year, followed by [[John H. Francis Polytechnic High School|Polytechnic High School]] in [[Sun Valley, Los Angeles]] studying reading.<ref name="NYTobit" /> He became fluent in French, German and Italian, and conversational in Spanish, Greek, Arabic, and Russian. A love of the [[classics]] led Getty to acquire reading proficiency in [[ancient Greek]] and [[Latin]].<ref name="NYTobit" />

Getty enrolled at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] but did not complete a degree.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2001/jul/12/artsfeatures2|title=The Getty fortune|last=Tran|first=Mark|date=July 12, 2001|work=The Guardian|access-date=March 17, 2019|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uuLjE09MKO0C&q=J.+Paul+Getty+uc+berkeley&pg=PR9|title=The J. Paul Getty Museum: Handbook of the Collections|last=Museum|first=J. Paul Getty|date=2007|publisher=Getty Publications|isbn=9780892368877|language=en}}</ref> Enamored of Europe after traveling abroad with his parents in 1910, he enrolled at the [[University of Oxford]] in [[Oxford|Oxford, England]] on November 28, 1912.<ref name=":0" /> A [[letter of introduction]] by President of the United States [[William Howard Taft]] enabled him to gain independent instruction from tutors at [[Magdalen College, Oxford|Magdalen College]]. Although he was not registered at Magdalen, he claimed the aristocratic students "accepted me as one of their own" and he fondly boasted of the friends he made, including [[Edward VIII|the Prince of Wales]], the future King [[Edward VIII of the United Kingdom]].<ref name="Pearson1995"/>{{rp|p=29}} He obtained a diploma in economics and political science from Oxford in June 1913,<ref name=":0" /> then spent months traveling throughout Europe and [[Egypt]] before meeting his parents in [[Paris]] and returning with them to the U.S. in June 1914.