Biographical Information:
JKM was the son of Harriet Tanner and Prosper Dwight Mumford of Syracuse, NY. He was named after his maternal grandmother's maternal grandfather, John Kimberly. He was a member of the Class of 1885 at Princeton University, where he was an editor of The Princetonian and of The Tiger. Mumford subsequently became an associate on the editorial staff of The Syracuse Daily Journal.
Source: Past and Present of Syracuse and Onondaga County, New York; Rev. William M. Beauchamp, S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., New York and Chicago, 1908, p. 526.
John Kimberly married Corolyn Currier Tanner (widow of Joseph Mead Bailey, Jr. ) on March 19th, 1895. Corolyn (1866-1949) was the daughter of Orphena Currier and DeWitt Clinton Tanner.
The children of Corolyn and John were Harriet Talcott, John Kimberly II, Constance and Marcia. Upon the 15th reunion of the Princeton class of 1885, members were asked for address, places they had lived, occupation, marriage & children and political activity. On June 1st 1900 the young family of four resided at 305 Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. Corolyn is recorded as head of household.
As a journalist John K. Mumford was entrusted with important assignments for The World, The New York Journal, Harper's Weekly, The World's Work and Munsey's. He served as a correspondent on General Shafter's staff during the Spanish-American War.
According to family legend, JKM contracted yellow fever while on assignment in Cuba. He heard men hammering coffins for the dying through an open window of the hospital where he was being treated, and consequently fled into Cuba for a year. The family in New York thought he had died, until he appeared on their doorstep, where he found his wife in black mourning attire.
The December 8th, 1909 Princeton Alumni Weekly (Vol. X, No. 11, p.171) reported Mumford having been associated with Kent-Costikyan rug dealers (39th St. and Fifth Ave., NYC) and having had written essays for Harper's Weekly about industrial and commercial development in the country. In the January 12th, 1920 issue of The Princeton Alumni Weekly (Vol. X, No. 14, p. 217) JKM is reported as being the author of "The Passing of the Antique Rug" in the January Century.
JKM was the author of "The Yerkes Collection Of Oriental Carpets - A Limited And De Luxe Portfolio" (London: B.T. Batsford, 1911) and of "Oriental Rugs" (N.Y.: Scribners, 1900), for which he rode donkey and camel through middle eastern countries to investigate his topic. Convinced of inaccuracies in his findings, he returned to Persia just before publication to obtain additional information.
During World War I Mumford edited the Red Cross Magazine. He wrote books on other industrial subjects including bakelite, wire and anthracite. He also contributed biographical sketches on leaders in NYC to the Herald Tribune regularly.
On Friday, March 3rd, and Saturday, March 4th of 1916, JKM and Frederick Moore of Peking sold their Chinese rugs at the Anderson Galleries in New York for a total of $18,380. Among those buying was the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sources: New York Times, March 3rd, 1916, page 9; New York Times, March 4th, 1916, page 11
The Recorder of Catskill, New York, contains articles between 1915 and 1921 about the family living in Lime Street, a settlement in Athens Township. In 1919 the March 4th issue reported that JKM of Washington, D.C. was visiting with his family.
His son, John Kimberly, Jr., married Everlena (aka Evelina) Wilkinson, daughter of Nettie Spoor and Robert Wilkinson, on June 19th, 1921, in Coxsackie, New York. John, Jr. was a farmer at the time. George Sumner Small, his brother-in-law, and Dorothy C. Wilkinson were the witnesses.
On April 25th 1922, The Columbia Republican reported that JKM had sold his farm in Lime Street to James Hollister, and that he would hold an auction sale for the farming implements.
According to his obituary in the NY Times on Thursday, April 22nd, 1926, page 25, JKM sailed to Singapore via ship in February 1926 to gather information for a new book about rubber. He died of pneumonia at the Europe Hotel in Singapore. The Straits Times recorded his death in its April 20th and 24th editions on page 8. A funeral was held on April 23rd at the Bidadari Cemetery, Singapore, in the Straits Settlements. Later, his grave was unable to be found by his grandson, Chip, and probably had to make way for public transportation and housing.
Other titles by JKM: "Anthracite", "A Physician to Corporate Bodies", "A Study in Progressive Efficiency", "Chinese Rugs", "Election Night in New York", "Glimpses of Modern Persia", "Last Haven of Exclusives; Art Invades Arcadia," "Making Hay of the Rug Business", "Men of To-Day: Thomas Fortune Ryan", "Minnesota - The Land of Promise", "Outspinning the Spider: The Story of Wire and Wire Rope", "Rugs and Rug Making", "Russia's Conquest of Asia", "The Great 'One Man Railroad' of the West", "The Heart of a Soulless Corporation", "The History of Bethlehem Steel 1914-1918", "The Life Of William Mckinley: Including A Genealogical Record Of The Mckinley Family And Copious Extracts From The Late President's Public Speeches" (creator with Oscar King Davis, author), "The Passing of the Antique Rug", "The Story of Bakelite", and in the Harper's Weekly series "This Land of Opportunity": 'Gary, the City that Rose from a Sandy Waste', 'The Man and the Job', 'The Nerve Center of Business', 'The Story of a Man Who Stayed on His Job', and 'The Watchword of the Hour – Honest Business and Fair Play'.
JKM was a member of the Society of Stukely Westcott Descendents of America, his paternal grandmother being Orissa Westcott Mumford. The gravesites of JKM's wife, Corolyn C. Tanner Mumford (1866-1949), and JKM's sister, Harriet Anne Mumford (1858-1947), have not yet been located.
JKM was the son of Harriet Tanner and Prosper Dwight Mumford of Syracuse, NY. He was named after his maternal grandmother's maternal grandfather, John Kimberly. He was a member of the Class of 1885 at Princeton University, where he was an editor of The Princetonian and of The Tiger. Mumford subsequently became an associate on the editorial staff of The Syracuse Daily Journal.
Source: Past and Present of Syracuse and Onondaga County, New York; Rev. William M. Beauchamp, S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., New York and Chicago, 1908, p. 526.
John Kimberly married Corolyn Currier Tanner (widow of Joseph Mead Bailey, Jr. ) on March 19th, 1895. Corolyn (1866-1949) was the daughter of Orphena Currier and DeWitt Clinton Tanner.
The children of Corolyn and John were Harriet Talcott, John Kimberly II, Constance and Marcia. Upon the 15th reunion of the Princeton class of 1885, members were asked for address, places they had lived, occupation, marriage & children and political activity. On June 1st 1900 the young family of four resided at 305 Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. Corolyn is recorded as head of household.
As a journalist John K. Mumford was entrusted with important assignments for The World, The New York Journal, Harper's Weekly, The World's Work and Munsey's. He served as a correspondent on General Shafter's staff during the Spanish-American War.
According to family legend, JKM contracted yellow fever while on assignment in Cuba. He heard men hammering coffins for the dying through an open window of the hospital where he was being treated, and consequently fled into Cuba for a year. The family in New York thought he had died, until he appeared on their doorstep, where he found his wife in black mourning attire.
The December 8th, 1909 Princeton Alumni Weekly (Vol. X, No. 11, p.171) reported Mumford having been associated with Kent-Costikyan rug dealers (39th St. and Fifth Ave., NYC) and having had written essays for Harper's Weekly about industrial and commercial development in the country. In the January 12th, 1920 issue of The Princeton Alumni Weekly (Vol. X, No. 14, p. 217) JKM is reported as being the author of "The Passing of the Antique Rug" in the January Century.
JKM was the author of "The Yerkes Collection Of Oriental Carpets - A Limited And De Luxe Portfolio" (London: B.T. Batsford, 1911) and of "Oriental Rugs" (N.Y.: Scribners, 1900), for which he rode donkey and camel through middle eastern countries to investigate his topic. Convinced of inaccuracies in his findings, he returned to Persia just before publication to obtain additional information.
During World War I Mumford edited the Red Cross Magazine. He wrote books on other industrial subjects including bakelite, wire and anthracite. He also contributed biographical sketches on leaders in NYC to the Herald Tribune regularly.
On Friday, March 3rd, and Saturday, March 4th of 1916, JKM and Frederick Moore of Peking sold their Chinese rugs at the Anderson Galleries in New York for a total of $18,380. Among those buying was the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sources: New York Times, March 3rd, 1916, page 9; New York Times, March 4th, 1916, page 11
The Recorder of Catskill, New York, contains articles between 1915 and 1921 about the family living in Lime Street, a settlement in Athens Township. In 1919 the March 4th issue reported that JKM of Washington, D.C. was visiting with his family.
His son, John Kimberly, Jr., married Everlena (aka Evelina) Wilkinson, daughter of Nettie Spoor and Robert Wilkinson, on June 19th, 1921, in Coxsackie, New York. John, Jr. was a farmer at the time. George Sumner Small, his brother-in-law, and Dorothy C. Wilkinson were the witnesses.
On April 25th 1922, The Columbia Republican reported that JKM had sold his farm in Lime Street to James Hollister, and that he would hold an auction sale for the farming implements.
According to his obituary in the NY Times on Thursday, April 22nd, 1926, page 25, JKM sailed to Singapore via ship in February 1926 to gather information for a new book about rubber. He died of pneumonia at the Europe Hotel in Singapore. The Straits Times recorded his death in its April 20th and 24th editions on page 8. A funeral was held on April 23rd at the Bidadari Cemetery, Singapore, in the Straits Settlements. Later, his grave was unable to be found by his grandson, Chip, and probably had to make way for public transportation and housing.
Other titles by JKM: "Anthracite", "A Physician to Corporate Bodies", "A Study in Progressive Efficiency", "Chinese Rugs", "Election Night in New York", "Glimpses of Modern Persia", "Last Haven of Exclusives; Art Invades Arcadia," "Making Hay of the Rug Business", "Men of To-Day: Thomas Fortune Ryan", "Minnesota - The Land of Promise", "Outspinning the Spider: The Story of Wire and Wire Rope", "Rugs and Rug Making", "Russia's Conquest of Asia", "The Great 'One Man Railroad' of the West", "The Heart of a Soulless Corporation", "The History of Bethlehem Steel 1914-1918", "The Life Of William Mckinley: Including A Genealogical Record Of The Mckinley Family And Copious Extracts From The Late President's Public Speeches" (creator with Oscar King Davis, author), "The Passing of the Antique Rug", "The Story of Bakelite", and in the Harper's Weekly series "This Land of Opportunity": 'Gary, the City that Rose from a Sandy Waste', 'The Man and the Job', 'The Nerve Center of Business', 'The Story of a Man Who Stayed on His Job', and 'The Watchword of the Hour – Honest Business and Fair Play'.
JKM was a member of the Society of Stukely Westcott Descendents of America, his paternal grandmother being Orissa Westcott Mumford. The gravesites of JKM's wife, Corolyn C. Tanner Mumford (1866-1949), and JKM's sister, Harriet Anne Mumford (1858-1947), have not yet been located.
Biographical Information:
JKM was the son of Harriet Tanner and Prosper Dwight Mumford of Syracuse, NY. He was named after his maternal grandmother's maternal grandfather, John Kimberly. He was a member of the Class of 1885 at Princeton University, where he was an editor of The Princetonian and of The Tiger. Mumford subsequently became an associate on the editorial staff of The Syracuse Daily Journal.
Source: Past and Present of Syracuse and Onondaga County, New York; Rev. William M. Beauchamp, S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., New York and Chicago, 1908, p. 526.
John Kimberly married Corolyn Currier Tanner (widow of Joseph Mead Bailey, Jr. ) on March 19th, 1895. Corolyn (1866-1949) was the daughter of Orphena Currier and DeWitt Clinton Tanner.
The children of Corolyn and John were Harriet Talcott, John Kimberly II, Constance and Marcia. Upon the 15th reunion of the Princeton class of 1885, members were asked for address, places they had lived, occupation, marriage & children and political activity. On June 1st 1900 the young family of four resided at 305 Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. Corolyn is recorded as head of household.
As a journalist John K. Mumford was entrusted with important assignments for The World, The New York Journal, Harper's Weekly, The World's Work and Munsey's. He served as a correspondent on General Shafter's staff during the Spanish-American War.
According to family legend, JKM contracted yellow fever while on assignment in Cuba. He heard men hammering coffins for the dying through an open window of the hospital where he was being treated, and consequently fled into Cuba for a year. The family in New York thought he had died, until he appeared on their doorstep, where he found his wife in black mourning attire.
The December 8th, 1909 Princeton Alumni Weekly (Vol. X, No. 11, p.171) reported Mumford having been associated with Kent-Costikyan rug dealers (39th St. and Fifth Ave., NYC) and having had written essays for Harper's Weekly about industrial and commercial development in the country. In the January 12th, 1920 issue of The Princeton Alumni Weekly (Vol. X, No. 14, p. 217) JKM is reported as being the author of "The Passing of the Antique Rug" in the January Century.
JKM was the author of "The Yerkes Collection Of Oriental Carpets - A Limited And De Luxe Portfolio" (London: B.T. Batsford, 1911) and of "Oriental Rugs" (N.Y.: Scribners, 1900), for which he rode donkey and camel through middle eastern countries to investigate his topic. Convinced of inaccuracies in his findings, he returned to Persia just before publication to obtain additional information.
During World War I Mumford edited the Red Cross Magazine. He wrote books on other industrial subjects including bakelite, wire and anthracite. He also contributed biographical sketches on leaders in NYC to the Herald Tribune regularly.
On Friday, March 3rd, and Saturday, March 4th of 1916, JKM and Frederick Moore of Peking sold their Chinese rugs at the Anderson Galleries in New York for a total of $18,380. Among those buying was the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sources: New York Times, March 3rd, 1916, page 9; New York Times, March 4th, 1916, page 11
The Recorder of Catskill, New York, contains articles between 1915 and 1921 about the family living in Lime Street, a settlement in Athens Township. In 1919 the March 4th issue reported that JKM of Washington, D.C. was visiting with his family.
His son, John Kimberly, Jr., married Everlena (aka Evelina) Wilkinson, daughter of Nettie Spoor and Robert Wilkinson, on June 19th, 1921, in Coxsackie, New York. John, Jr. was a farmer at the time. George Sumner Small, his brother-in-law, and Dorothy C. Wilkinson were the witnesses.
On April 25th 1922, The Columbia Republican reported that JKM had sold his farm in Lime Street to James Hollister, and that he would hold an auction sale for the farming implements.
According to his obituary in the NY Times on Thursday, April 22nd, 1926, page 25, JKM sailed to Singapore via ship in February 1926 to gather information for a new book about rubber. He died of pneumonia at the Europe Hotel in Singapore. The Straits Times recorded his death in its April 20th and 24th editions on page 8. A funeral was held on April 23rd at the Bidadari Cemetery, Singapore, in the Straits Settlements. Later, his grave was unable to be found by his grandson, Chip, and probably had to make way for public transportation and housing.
Other titles by JKM: "Anthracite", "A Physician to Corporate Bodies", "A Study in Progressive Efficiency", "Chinese Rugs", "Election Night in New York", "Glimpses of Modern Persia", "Last Haven of Exclusives; Art Invades Arcadia," "Making Hay of the Rug Business", "Men of To-Day: Thomas Fortune Ryan", "Minnesota - The Land of Promise", "Outspinning the Spider: The Story of Wire and Wire Rope", "Rugs and Rug Making", "Russia's Conquest of Asia", "The Great 'One Man Railroad' of the West", "The Heart of a Soulless Corporation", "The History of Bethlehem Steel 1914-1918", "The Life Of William Mckinley: Including A Genealogical Record Of The Mckinley Family And Copious Extracts From The Late President's Public Speeches" (creator with Oscar King Davis, author), "The Passing of the Antique Rug", "The Story of Bakelite", and in the Harper's Weekly series "This Land of Opportunity": 'Gary, the City that Rose from a Sandy Waste', 'The Man and the Job', 'The Nerve Center of Business', 'The Story of a Man Who Stayed on His Job', and 'The Watchword of the Hour – Honest Business and Fair Play'.
JKM was a member of the Society of Stukely Westcott Descendents of America, his paternal grandmother being Orissa Westcott Mumford. The gravesites of JKM's wife, Corolyn C. Tanner Mumford (1866-1949), and JKM's sister, Harriet Anne Mumford (1858-1947), have not yet been located.
JKM was the son of Harriet Tanner and Prosper Dwight Mumford of Syracuse, NY. He was named after his maternal grandmother's maternal grandfather, John Kimberly. He was a member of the Class of 1885 at Princeton University, where he was an editor of The Princetonian and of The Tiger. Mumford subsequently became an associate on the editorial staff of The Syracuse Daily Journal.
Source: Past and Present of Syracuse and Onondaga County, New York; Rev. William M. Beauchamp, S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., New York and Chicago, 1908, p. 526.
John Kimberly married Corolyn Currier Tanner (widow of Joseph Mead Bailey, Jr. ) on March 19th, 1895. Corolyn (1866-1949) was the daughter of Orphena Currier and DeWitt Clinton Tanner.
The children of Corolyn and John were Harriet Talcott, John Kimberly II, Constance and Marcia. Upon the 15th reunion of the Princeton class of 1885, members were asked for address, places they had lived, occupation, marriage & children and political activity. On June 1st 1900 the young family of four resided at 305 Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. Corolyn is recorded as head of household.
As a journalist John K. Mumford was entrusted with important assignments for The World, The New York Journal, Harper's Weekly, The World's Work and Munsey's. He served as a correspondent on General Shafter's staff during the Spanish-American War.
According to family legend, JKM contracted yellow fever while on assignment in Cuba. He heard men hammering coffins for the dying through an open window of the hospital where he was being treated, and consequently fled into Cuba for a year. The family in New York thought he had died, until he appeared on their doorstep, where he found his wife in black mourning attire.
The December 8th, 1909 Princeton Alumni Weekly (Vol. X, No. 11, p.171) reported Mumford having been associated with Kent-Costikyan rug dealers (39th St. and Fifth Ave., NYC) and having had written essays for Harper's Weekly about industrial and commercial development in the country. In the January 12th, 1920 issue of The Princeton Alumni Weekly (Vol. X, No. 14, p. 217) JKM is reported as being the author of "The Passing of the Antique Rug" in the January Century.
JKM was the author of "The Yerkes Collection Of Oriental Carpets - A Limited And De Luxe Portfolio" (London: B.T. Batsford, 1911) and of "Oriental Rugs" (N.Y.: Scribners, 1900), for which he rode donkey and camel through middle eastern countries to investigate his topic. Convinced of inaccuracies in his findings, he returned to Persia just before publication to obtain additional information.
During World War I Mumford edited the Red Cross Magazine. He wrote books on other industrial subjects including bakelite, wire and anthracite. He also contributed biographical sketches on leaders in NYC to the Herald Tribune regularly.
On Friday, March 3rd, and Saturday, March 4th of 1916, JKM and Frederick Moore of Peking sold their Chinese rugs at the Anderson Galleries in New York for a total of $18,380. Among those buying was the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sources: New York Times, March 3rd, 1916, page 9; New York Times, March 4th, 1916, page 11
The Recorder of Catskill, New York, contains articles between 1915 and 1921 about the family living in Lime Street, a settlement in Athens Township. In 1919 the March 4th issue reported that JKM of Washington, D.C. was visiting with his family.
His son, John Kimberly, Jr., married Everlena (aka Evelina) Wilkinson, daughter of Nettie Spoor and Robert Wilkinson, on June 19th, 1921, in Coxsackie, New York. John, Jr. was a farmer at the time. George Sumner Small, his brother-in-law, and Dorothy C. Wilkinson were the witnesses.
On April 25th 1922, The Columbia Republican reported that JKM had sold his farm in Lime Street to James Hollister, and that he would hold an auction sale for the farming implements.
According to his obituary in the NY Times on Thursday, April 22nd, 1926, page 25, JKM sailed to Singapore via ship in February 1926 to gather information for a new book about rubber. He died of pneumonia at the Europe Hotel in Singapore. The Straits Times recorded his death in its April 20th and 24th editions on page 8. A funeral was held on April 23rd at the Bidadari Cemetery, Singapore, in the Straits Settlements. Later, his grave was unable to be found by his grandson, Chip, and probably had to make way for public transportation and housing.
Other titles by JKM: "Anthracite", "A Physician to Corporate Bodies", "A Study in Progressive Efficiency", "Chinese Rugs", "Election Night in New York", "Glimpses of Modern Persia", "Last Haven of Exclusives; Art Invades Arcadia," "Making Hay of the Rug Business", "Men of To-Day: Thomas Fortune Ryan", "Minnesota - The Land of Promise", "Outspinning the Spider: The Story of Wire and Wire Rope", "Rugs and Rug Making", "Russia's Conquest of Asia", "The Great 'One Man Railroad' of the West", "The Heart of a Soulless Corporation", "The History of Bethlehem Steel 1914-1918", "The Life Of William Mckinley: Including A Genealogical Record Of The Mckinley Family And Copious Extracts From The Late President's Public Speeches" (creator with Oscar King Davis, author), "The Passing of the Antique Rug", "The Story of Bakelite", and in the Harper's Weekly series "This Land of Opportunity": 'Gary, the City that Rose from a Sandy Waste', 'The Man and the Job', 'The Nerve Center of Business', 'The Story of a Man Who Stayed on His Job', and 'The Watchword of the Hour – Honest Business and Fair Play'.
JKM was a member of the Society of Stukely Westcott Descendents of America, his paternal grandmother being Orissa Westcott Mumford. The gravesites of JKM's wife, Corolyn C. Tanner Mumford (1866-1949), and JKM's sister, Harriet Anne Mumford (1858-1947), have not yet been located.
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