William Arthur Paxton (1873 - 1965) Landscape painter. Born in Port Perry, Ontario, Canada on May 2, 1873. Paxton moved to southern California in 1890 and settled in Orange. He worked in the silver mines in Colorado for a few years before joining the rush to the gold mines in Alaska in 1897. (His account of the experience called "Four Years of Klondike Fever" was published in the Alaska Sportsman in the 1950s.) Returning to California, he entered Stanford University and was granted a degree in drawing when the 1906 earthquake closed the school. In 1910 he studied at the AIC. He was a resident ...