He married Sarah Bissell Whitman in 1893; they lived in Plainfield, New Jersey and then in Flushing, New York.
[1] Upon his return from Paris, Benson was employed by McKim, Mead & White in New York City.
[2] For six months between 1904 and 1905, Benson created "The Woozlebeasts," a comic strip written almost entirely in limericks, accompanied by his nonsensical drawings.
Benson and his wife moved to a house they called "Willowbank" on the Piscataqua River in Kittery, Maine.
[5] A retrospective John Benson exhibition was held in 1968 at the Peabody Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.