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2 unusual facts about Henry Cosgrove


Henry Cosgrove

In 1903 he was quoted in the national media calling Davenport "the wicked city of its size in America" because of its notorious Bucktown District, an area of speakeasies and houses of prosititution, which were down the hill from the cathedral.

He furthered his education at St. Mary's Seminary in Perry County, Missouri for the classics, and the seminary at Carondelet in Missouri for theology.


Robert Cosgrove

He was married to Dame Gertrude Cosgrove from 1911 until her death in 1962; they had four children, including a son who was killed in World War II; another son, Henry Cosgrove, became a Judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania.


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