The West Coast Years
(1910 to 1931)
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The Watertown Daily Times - December 9, 1911 Theodore Gegoux - Missing Men Alive, Two Heard From - One in San Francisco and One in Portland, Ore. - Both Given Up as Dead One has been absent and unheard from for seven years, and the other, a skillful artist, has been mysteriously absent for two years. |
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Watertown, Dec 9.- Two missing Watertown men, about given up by their friends for dead, have been located alive and well on the pacific coast, though in neither case has any reason been found for their mysterious disappearance. Seven years ago John S. Benson.........
Theodore Gegoux, one of the most gifted portrait and landscape artists this city has ever produced, who mysteriously disappeared two years ago, has been located, it was learned today, alive and in good health at Portland, Oregon, where he is said to have been living since shortly after he left Watertown, and where he is said to be applying himself assiduously to the painting of portraits and landscapes, he having, it is said, painted portraits of several prominent residents of the Oregon city and to have turned out a prodigious amount of landscape work. Two years ago last month Mr. Gegoux, who had a studio in the Van Namme building in Public square, started for New York, it was stated, to fulfill a commission for a portrait in oil. From New York it was learned that he went to Cleveland, where he had relatives, and then, it is said, all trace of him was lost. At first, it is said, his family believed he had gone to San Francisco, to attend a big aviation meet, he having become interested in the new science, but later as no news came, it was believed he had met his death somewhere in the West. Besides his wife in this city, Mr. Gegoux has two sons, Theodore Gegoux, Jr., an employee of the Agricultural Insurance company's office, and Frank Gegoux, now of Los Angeles. Frank Kellogg, of the Agricultural office, who is now in the West, is said to have sent word to Theodore Gegoux, Jr., regarding the whereabouts of the artist, Mr. Kellogg, it is said, having seen and talked with Mr. Gegoux. |
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