The West Coast Years
(1910 to 1931)
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The Post-Standard, Syracuse, N. Y. - March 30, 1910 - Wednesday Watertown Artist Is Strangely Gone Left Cleveland, Ohio, December 15 With $300 in His Pocket, and Wife and Two Children Have Heard Nothing of Him Since. Special To The Post-Standard - Watertown, March 29 |
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Theodore Gegoux of this city, one of the best known artists in Northern New York, has mysteriously disappeared. It is known that Mr. Gegoux left Cleveland, O., on December 15 with perhaps $300 in his pocket. At that time he told relatives that he would go to California. Since that date, over three months ago, every trace of the missing man has been lost.
For months past Mr. Gegoux, who is of middle age, took more than the ordinary interest in flying machines. It is thought that possibly he went on to the Pacific coast to witness the aviation meet near Los Angeles in January. But the many weeks that have elapsed without a single word from him have filled his wife and two children with apprehension for his safety. The talents of Mr. Gegoux's brush have made his paintings well known throughout the state. For many summers the Gegoux family has occupied a cottage at Point Vivian, where it was the artist's pleasure to sketch the beautiful St. Lawrence river scenery. One of his well known paintings, that of the Flower Library on a winter's night at the holiday season, with the electrical effects, is probably as much admired as the work of any local artist. On November 28, Mr. Gegoux left here for New York to finish some paintings for Norman Heath of Brooklyn, whose summer home is Nobby Island. While in New York Mr. Gegoux wrote on two occasions to his family, asking that some things needed by him be sent. Some days later Mr. Gegoux left New York and went to Cleveland, O where he painted a portrait of a nephew who had died but a short time before. He left Cleveland on December 15, and since that day has not been located. |
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