Early Life, Family and Training Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1870, William James Glackens entered a world shaped by the steady industry of his parents, Elizabeth Finn Glackens and Samuel Glackens, a clerk for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Artistic inclination ran through the family; his older brother, Louis, born in 1866, would eventually find his own way as an illustrator. The young Glackens began his formal education at Centra…