From: The History of Redding Connecticut from its First Settlement to the Present Time by Charles B. Todd, New York 1880.

John Ward Stimson, artist, author and lecturer, has resided for two years past in the old historic Dr. Gorham house near the Center. He was born in Paterson, N. J., Dec. 16, 1850; graduated at Yale, 1872, and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. Became lecturer and teacher of Art at Princeton University; later for four years was director of the Art Schools of the Metropolitan Museum, New York. In 1888 he founded the Artist-Artisan Institute of New York. Later he was director of the Art and Science Institution of Trenton, N. J. He has been for some time Associate editor of the Arena, and is author of "The Law of Three Primaries," "Principles of Vital Art Education," "The Gate Beautiful," "Wandering Chords," as well as many poems and articles in leading magazines and newspapers.

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