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John Meigs

John Liggett Meigs (1916 - 2003) was active/lived in New Mexico, Illinois.  John Meigs is known for Western genre-landscape, graphics.

John Liggett Meigs
By Mark S. Fuller
Santa Fe, New Mexico
April 2009

Extraordinary people lead extraordinary lives, and John L. Meigs was an extraordinary person.  Even the way John began life was highly unusual; he enjoyed telling the tale - repeating it on a regular basis - of his "kidnapping" by his father when John was but a baby.

John was born on May 10, 1916 and, early the next year, John, senior, along with his mistress, Jane Winkler, ran off with little John, who would never see his biological mother, Margaret Mary (Cookley), again.  After the "kidnapping," from the Palmer House in Chicago, where John's parents were living, the family assumed the name "MacMillan."  During the next several years, they moved from city to city, eventually settling in San Antonio, Texas, where John began to form some of the associations with fascinating and unusual personalities that would populate the rest of his life.  In San Antonio, John was fascinated   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7051 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about John Meigs

   John Meigs  Born:  1916 - Chicago, Illinois
Died:   2003
Known for:  Western genre-landscape, graphics

John Liggett Meigs
By Mark S. Fuller
Santa Fe, New Mexico
April 2009

Extraordinary people lead extraordinary lives, and John L. Meigs was an extraordinary person.  Even the way John began life was highly unusual; he enjoyed telling the tale - repeating it on a regular basis - of his "kidnapping" by his father when John was but a baby.

John was born on May 10, 1916 and, early the next year, John, senior, along with his mistress, Jane Winkler, ran off with little John, who would never see his biological mother, Margaret Mary (Cookley), again.  After the "kidnapping," from the Palmer House in Chicago, where John's parents were living, the family assumed the name "MacMillan."  During the next several years,  ...  Displaying 750 of 7051 characters.

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