Stimson, Eleanor Maxson,

Eleanor Maxson Stimson was the mother of Van Wyck Brooks's first wife, Eleanor Kenyon Stimson Brooks and also of Polynesian anthropologist Frank Stimson.

Eleanor Maxson Stimson was the mother of Eleanor Stimson Brooks, the first wife of Van Wyck Brooks. An artist herself, she married fellow artist John Ward Stimson, although they later divorced. The couple had two children, daughter Eleanor and son John Francis (Frank), who went on to become an expert in Polynesian linguistics. She was a native of Plainfield, New Jersey, and the niece of Eliza Elvira Kenyon, who was the director of the Plainfield Seminary and the correspondent of Louise Kossuth Ruttkay, with whom Eleanor had stayed while studying art in Europe. Mrs. Stimson moved to Connecticut in the 1930s, where her daughter and Van Wyck Brooks were also living. Her Brooks grandchildren referred to her as "Dada."

Eleanor Maxson Stimson ("Dada" to her grandchildren) was the mother of Eleanor Stimson Brooks, the first wife of Van Wyck Brooks. An artist herself, she married fellow artist John Ward Stimson, although they later divorced. The couple had two children, daughter Eleanor and son John Francis (Frank), who went on to become an expert in Polynesian linguistics. She was a native of Plainfield, New Jersey, and the niece of Eliza Elvira Kenyon, who was the director of the Plainfield Seminary and the correspondent of Louise Kossuth Ruttkay, with whom Eleanor had stayed while studying art in Europe. Mrs. Stimson moved to Connecticut in the 1930s, where her daughter and Van Wyck Brooks were also living. She died in early 1945.