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John Ballou Newbrough was born on June 5, 1828 in Springfield, Ohio, United States. He was the son of Jacob and Mary Newbrough.
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John Ballou Newbrough was born on June 5, 1828 in Springfield, Ohio, United States. He was the son of Jacob and Mary Newbrough.
In 1849 Newbrough graduated from a Cincinnati dental college.
Newbrough left home at the age of sixteen and worked for a dentist, Dr. Slauson, in Cleveland.
He joined the gold rush for California and in 1851 went to the goldfields of Australia. After six years of travel he returned to Cincinnati, where he practised medicine and dentistry.
In 1860 John returned to Philadelphia, where he practised dentistry until 1862, when he moved to New York. In 1865 he published A Catechism on Human Teeth, in which he speaks of his experience abroad.
During these years he became increasingly interested in spiritualism and finally discovered that he had an unusual gift for automatic writing. In order to facilitate his communication with angels, he undertook a systematic discipline of "purification, " avoiding meat and stimulants. In 1881, according to his own account, "one morning the light struck both my hands on the back and they went for the typewriter, for some fifteen minutes, very vigorously. I was told not to read what was printed. For fifty weeks this continued and then it ceased, and I was told to read and publish Oahspe".
Oahspe: A New Bible (first edition, 1882) was written in Biblical idiom for "faithists. " It outlines in elaborate detail the history and structure of the universe and announces the dawn of the "Kosmon Age, " beginning in 1848, during which "Jehovih's Kingdom on Earth" is to be established. The revelations of Oahspe induced Newbrough to collect a large number of orphans and foundlings at Pearl River, New York, and, with the help of a faithful band of followers, to organize the communistic society of Shalam, New Mexico. This community controlled about 1, 000 acres of irrigated land near Doña Ana in Mesilla Valley. It was planned to build another community for adults, named Levitica, nearby, but the limited resources of the group made this venture impossible. The children were legally adopted by Shalam Community and were given a systematic, practical education, which was intended to make them competent to do the work of the community and to despise the "filth and luxury" of "the land of UZ" (the cities of the world).
A "Faithist's Infants' Home" was established in New Orleans for castaways, foundlings, and orphans: "said babes are to be taken to a place in the country, distant from vice, such as drunkenness, using tobacco, flesheating and so on".
Newbrough labored in and with this community until his death, and the work was continued for about ten years longer under the direction of A. M. Howland of Boston, who had provided most of the funds for the venture.
He was a 33rd degree Mason and his grave is in the Masonic Burial Grounds at Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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In 1860 he married Rachel Turnbull in Scotland. Divorced from his wife because she refused to follow him to New Mexico, he married Frances Van de Water. He had a son by his first marriage, and a daughter by his second.
