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Josephine Richardson Magoffin 
Born on November 6, 1873 in El Paso, the second child of Joseph and Octavia Magoffin and was nine years younger than her brother. She attended Central School, the first public school in El Paso, and later went to Georgetown Visitation Convent in Washington, D.C. Nicknamed "Josie," she was popular in El Paso and a leader of the young people's social group. In 1888 members of the Fifth U. S. Infantry Band gave her a surprise serenade. In the summer of 1889 when Josephine graduated from Georgetown, she went to Europe to study music in Dresden, Germany. She was only sixteen at the time and her father was not enthusiastic about her going. He wrote her, "with regard to your trip to Europe-I don't see why your mother puts such things in your head. . . . I think perhaps it will be better to wait until Jim or myself can go with you." Although the trip was to have lasted only three months, it stretched to two years. In 1891 the Magoffins went to Europe to bring Josie home.

 Returning to El Paso, Josephine was active in the social life of the city. She met William Jefferson Glasgow on a visit to Fort Bayard, New Mexico in 1895 and married the young lieutenant in October 1896. Their wedding was called "the most fashionable and brilliant wedding that has ever been witnessed in El Paso" and "the most brilliant wedding ever celebrated in the southwest." At eleven o'clock on the morning of October 29, 1896, the couple exchanged vows in the Church of Immaculate Conception. The groom's attendants were all fellow army officers with the exception of the bride's brother, Jim. The bride's attendants were Kate Moore, May Cresson,and her cousin Gertrude Dwyer from San Antonio. After the wedding a luncheon was held at the Magoffin home

 
 
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