The West Coast Years
(1910 to 1931)
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The Watertown Daily Times - March 30, 1910 - Wednesday Theodore Gegoux Has Disappeared Portrait Painter Last Heard From In December - Was Then In Cleveland, Ohio Having Been Interested In Flying Machines, It is Thought He Went to Aviation Meet at Los Angeles, California Is Well Known in Northern New York |
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Theodore Gegoux, for many years one of the most prominent artists of northern New York, has dropped out of sight and since Dec. 10 last no word has been heard of him by his friends or the members of his family in this city. The last heard from Mr. Gegoux he was in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was then at work on a picture of a nephew who had died a short time before. It is believed that he is in the west and the theory of foul play that has been advanced is scouted by the members of his family.
Mr. Gegoux left home the latter part of last November and went from here to New York, where be was engaged on some work. He wrote to his wife in this city while in New York and word was also received from him from Cleveland, where he went from New York. He left that city, however, Dec. 10 and since then no word has been received. The painter had been working for months on flying machines and had a helicopter revolving type of aeroplane in which he was much interested. It is known that he desired to attend the aviation meet at Los Angeles and it is thought possible that he went west after leaving Cleveland. His continued absence since the close of the meet cannot, however, be explained. His son, Theodore Gegoux, jr., in speaking of the case this morning, said that be has no belief in the foul play theory and said that he could in no way explain his father's strange disappearance. Mr. Gegoux is prominent throughout this section and has for years been known as a portrait painter and landscape artist. During the summer be has been in the habit of doing considerable painting among the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence. |