William H. Cosgrove papers, 1883-1933.

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William H. Cosgrove papers, 1883-1933.

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Most of the items contained in this collection are photocopies. However, items in the Post Office folder are original documents covering the period in which Cosgrove was postmaster and Receiver of Public Monies. Other items in the collection include receipts for Masonry dues and personal correspondence between Cosgrove, his wife and their daughter. In the business transaction folder are deeds, receipts, promissory notes and contracts of rate.

.25 linear feet.

New Mexico State University

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Rio Grande Historical Collections

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The Faithist movement was founded by a New York dentist and doctor named John B. Newbrough, who claimed to have written a new Bible, called Oahspe, while under spirit control. Contained in this Bible was "The Book of Shalam," which set forth a plan for gathering the outcast and orphaned children of the world and raising them, according to strict religious principles, to be the spiritual leaders of a new age. Newbrough and some twenty Faithists, as his followers were called, decided to create suc...

Cosgrove, William J.

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William H. Cosgrove was born in 1843 in Jackson County, Missouri. He traveled extensively in the West and lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico from 1874-1878. In 1878, he moved to a ranch on the site of present-day Roswell. His brother had a contract to carry mail from Las Vegas, New Mexico to Mesilla, New Mexico by way of Fort Stanton, and Cosgrove assisted him with this route. In time, Cosgrove established a mercantile store in Roswell in partnership with John W. Poe and J.S. Lea. The partners sold t...