Simon B. Newcomb papers, 1841-1901.

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Simon B. Newcomb papers, 1841-1901.

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The Simon B. Newcomb papers contains photographs and documents of the Newcomb family. Included are images of Saint Genevieve's Church and portraits of Newcomb and his brother, Albert Newcomb. The manuscript documents include a letter 1894 from Newcomb to George H. Newcomb, Albert Newcomb's United States Army discharge paper, and an electrostatic copy printed genealogy of the Newcomb family.

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New Mexico State University

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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...

Newcomb, Simon Bolivar, b. 1838.

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Simon Bolivar Newcomb was born on March 9, 1838 in Canada. From 1855 to 1860 Newcomb studied law in Canda. On November 19, 1867 he married Alice McDonald in Toledo, Ohio. In 1870, Newcomb moved to Texas and from 1871-1874 served as the judge of the 25th Judicial District of Texas. Newcomb moved to Las Cruces, New Mexico in 1875, where he was a law partner of Herbert B. Holt, and one of the founders of the Las Cruces College (now New Mexico State University). He also worked as a receiver for the ...

Newcomb family

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