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==Early life and education==
Getty was born in [[Minneapolis]], Minnesota, to Sarah Catherine McPherson (Risher) and [[George Getty]], who was an attorney in the insurance industry. His parents raised him as a [[Methodist]]; his father was a devout [[Christian Scientist]], and both were strict [[teetotalers]]. He was of part [[Scottish American|Scottish]] descent.<ref>Creag Dubh The Annual of the Clan MacPherson Association, no 71, p62 The McPherson ancestry of the Getty Family</ref> In 1903, when Getty was 10 years old, George Getty traveled to [[Bartlesville, Oklahoma|Bartlesville]], Oklahoma, and bought the [[mineral rights]] for 1,100 acres of land. The Getty family subsequently moved to
As newly minted millionaires, the family moved to [[Los Angeles]], but J. Paul Getty later returned to Oklahoma. At age 14, he attended [[Harvard Military School]] for a year, followed by [[John H. Francis Polytechnic High School|Polytechnic High School]], where he was given the nickname "Dictionary Getty" because of his love of reading.<ref name="nytimes1976">{{cite news| url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1215.html| title=J. Paul Getty Dead at 83; Amassed Billions from Oil| author=Alden Whitman| work=The New York Times| date=June 6, 1976| access-date=March 30, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180330155805/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1215.html| archive-date=March 30, 2018| df=mdy-all}}</ref> He became fluent in French, German and Italian, and conversational in Spanish, [[Greek language|Greek]], Arabic and Russian. A love of the [[classics]] led Getty to acquire reading proficiency in [[Ancient Greek]] and [[Latin]].<ref name="nytimes1976"/>
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