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Last updated: 07/27/01
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| 1881 | Born in Sumsquatch Maine |
| 1898 | Moves to Skowhegan, attends classes at Skowhegan College of Art |
| 1899 | Attends Whotney School of Taxidermy |
| 1900 | Winged Victory produced as Senior Project |
| 1902 | Begins rodent studies; Self Portrait, Thrill of Victory, Agony of Defeat |
| 1904 | Meets Esmeralda De Murde, creates To Esme With Love and Squalor |
| 1906 | Blueboy commissioned by Franco American Woodcutters Association |
| 1909 | Participates in short-lived Aroostock insurrection. Invents spud gun, used disasterously in conflict. Anthem created during this period |
| 1912 | Goes into seclusion. Claws, often called the Yin-Yang of Dreco, created |
| 1915 | Creates, Passenger Pigeon Giving Birth, his most famous lost work |
| 1918 | Religious period, Dormasintoria created |
| 1922 | Returns to seclusion, resigns from Rotary Club and renounces the outside world. For three years eats only insects and drinks his own perspiration |
| 1925 | Visited by fellow Drecoist Chester Eggart |
| 1926 | Attempts to breed race of super muskrats. Déjà Vu created |
| 1928 | Searches for long lost foot passage through Northern Maine |
| 1929 | Dies in Seboomook Maine |
Augustus Sheissmacher is the most noted Drecoist. Though little is known about his life (and much of this later destroyed by orthodox art historians) the following chronology sheds some light on his life.
Selected Works:
Dormasintoria | Thrill of Victory | Claws
Clarice Henry | Chester Eggart