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Adjutor Hormidas ("Ad" / "Pappy") THEROUX  (Joseph)1898 - 1981 arrowarrow PIONEER    PARENTS    LIFE    NOTES    LABELS    PHOTOS    THANK YOU

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Adjutor Hormidas ("Ad" / "Pappy") THEROUX  (Joseph)1898 - 1981

aka
nationality
occupation
birth 21 Sep 1898, West Warwick, RI (SSDI has incorrectly: 25 Sep 1898)
christening 22 Sep 1898, ...........
death .. April 1981, Lenox Hill, New York, NY
burial was cremated
marriage Married ca 1917 in St. Jean de Baptiste, West Warwick, Rhode Island
May/Mae PIERPOINT

b. 5 Aug 1897, New York
d. .. Oct 1988, River Edge, Bergen, NJ

children
  • Marshall

    b. 3 Oct 1919, New York City
    d. & bd. 2 Feb 1980, Arlington Heights, Cook, Illinois

  • Albert H.

    b. 5 May 1922, ......., Rhode Island
    d. 29 June 1991, ..............

  • Grace R.

    b. 30 June 1923, ........
    d. .. July 1989, River Edge, Bergen, NJ


PARENTS

father Eusebe THEROUX

b. 8 Dec 1854, St Aime de Massieville, Yamaska, PQ, CANADA
d. 16 Jan 1914, Wets Warwick, RI) navigateur

mother Marie Eutychiane BROUILLETTE

b. 29 Dec 1855, St Stanislaus, PQ, CANADA
d. 2 May 1947, West Warwick, RI

children
  • [Joseph] Adjutor Ho(r)midas

    b. 21 Sep 1898, West Warwick, RI (SSDI has incorrectly: 25 Sep 1898)
    d. .. April 1981, Lenox Hill, New York, NY

  • Marie Ann

    b. 11 Apr 1900
    d. .................

  • ...................

LIFE


Draft registr. 1917-18:
Adjutor Hormidas THEROUX electrician
Address: ...... Kent, RI (=Rhode Island)


1930 CENSUS (5 April 1930, New York City, Bronx, NY):
Adjutor THEROUX (30y) engineer Phonograph Co.
May (30y)
- Marshall (18y)
- Albert (16y)



Columbia recording engineer
With mixing engineer Harold Chapman (“Chappie”)

For pictures see:
- ISIS, issue 138 (May-June 2008), p. 50
- Backstory in Blue. Ellington at Newport ’56 by John Fass Morton. Rutgers University Press, June 2008, p. 103


NOTES

  • ISIS, issue 138 (May-June 2008), p. 50 (Bob Dylan fanzine)
  • Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording by Charles L. Granata. Chicago Review Press, 2003 (picture on p. 38).
  • Backstory in Blue. Ellington at Newport ’56 by John Fass Morton. Rutgers University Press, June 2008 (picture on p. 103)
  • Steve Hoffman Music Forums (internet)
  • Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP by Susan Schmidt Horning. John Hopkins University Press, 2013.


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