John Kimberly Mumford was the grandson of a Baptist minister, whose wife was a daughter of the elder Reuben Westcott of Milford, N. Y. His father was a newspaper man at Syracuse, N. Y., and John K. followed his foot-steps. After some years of journalistic work at Syracuse, he went to New York and became identified with the Hearst newspapers. During the last months of the Spanish-American war, he was chief of the “New York Evening Journal” staff in Cuba. He contributed to magazines, and became an authority on Oriental carpets. He was author of “Oriental Rugs.” He died in 1926 at Singapore, Straits settlement, British East India.

Source: History and Genealogy of the Ancestors and Some Descendants of Stukely Westcott, One of the Thirteen Original Proprietors of Providence Plantation and the Colony of Rhode Island with Especial Mention of The Westcotts of Cheshire, Berkshire County, Massachusetts and the Westcotts of Milford, Otsego County, New York and Some of the Allied Families, Incorporating, and Extending, the Research of the late Hon. J. Russell Bullock of Bristol, R. I. by Roscoe L. Whitman, 1932, page 404

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