82. Pierre GAGNON was born on 20 Feb 1892 in Upper Frenchville, Maine, apparently a twin (there is a birth record for Genève Gagnon, daughter of Henri and Marie Virginia Daigle, born 21 Feb 1892; she died in 1900.  Pierre moved west      as a teenager or young man, sometime after the 1910 US census, in which he appeared as Pierre Gagnon, age 18, living in the household of Henrie Gagnon and Denise Gagnon [Frencvhille, famly no.161, p.15].

In June 1918 he was living in Minneapolis, Minnesota (in Room 55 of the Summit Hotel, 253 2nd Ave). On his WWI draft registration card his name is listed as Peter, and he listed his occupation as "Trapper," though also noted that he was then currently unemployed. He was not married. He signed his name as Peter Gagnon. He is described as "tall" with a "medium" build, blue eyes and brown hair. Also noted is that he had "varicose vein in the leg". [Registration Card, no.690 (stamped no.22-2-13.A), June 7, 1918, Minneapolis, MN]

By January 1920 he was working in a lumber camp in northern Minnesota. He is in the 1920 US census, listed as Peter Gagnon, aged 28, living in Sand Lake Township, Itasca County, Minnesota. He's living in a lumber camp (Clement Timber Company, camp number 1), and is listed as a hired man, working for wages as a laborer, born in Maine, both parents born in Maine. The enumeration took place on 22 Jan 1920. [1920 US census, Itasca Co., MN, SD#8, ED#27, Sheet No.5B. Thanks to Ken Roy for this info.]

Sometime between then and September 1922 Pierre moved to Dubois, Fremont Co., Wyoming, possibly to work for the Wyoming Tie and Timber Company [ Death certificate from Wyoming State Dept of Public Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics].     

      In September 1922 Pierre became an inmate the the Wyoming State Hospital for the Insane, with a diagnosis of "schizophrenia - paranoid type" (info from his death certificate).

At the time of the 1930 US census he was living in Evanston, Uinta Co., Wyoming, listed as age 37, inmate in the Wyoming State Hospital for the Insane.  He was listed at the same place in the 1940 US census and the 1950 US census.   

He died on March 31, 1952 in Evanston, Wyoming, presumably still an inmate at the hospital.  He was listed as 60 years old, and cause of death was "cornonary occlusion" or heart attack, which he'd had the day before.  The certificate noted that his body was "removed", transported to Fort Kent, Maine.      

He was buried in Ste-Luce cemetery, although the date on the stone is 1961.  

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