Pat Cosgrove
Pat Cosgrove is a native of the Emerald Isle—born in 1830; he came to the United States in 1844, locating in New York. From thence, in ’48, he went to Montgomery, Alabama, and came to Kansas in ’56, locating in Johnson County. He was the first sheriff elected in Johnson County, (in ’57,) and was re-elected twice. In his official capacity he had many desperate characters to deal with in these early days. In ’62 he was commissioned 1st lieutenant of company G, 2nd Kansas cavalry, and commissioned Captain in ’64, and mustered out in ’65, when he returned to the peaceful pursuits of the plow. In ’58 he married Miss Amanda Evans, daughter of John Evans in this county. They have a family of five children—three sons and two daughters. During the early troubles he acted with the pro slavery party, and has always been a democrat. He is located three miles north east of Mill creek engaged in farming. With very little digging he has discovered four thin stratas of coal, within three feet of the first. Old miners say that indications are good for a paying vein by a little “drifting,” and have offered $800 for the privilege of mining 15 acres. A great many shells and curious fossils have been discovered in this vicinity, that are highly interesting to those who love to look through “nature’s works up to nature’s God.”
Atlas Map of Johnson County, Kansas, E. F. Heisler and Co., 1874, p. 55.
