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Richard
Arscott
He
came in 1888. He bought N.W. 25-2-17 from the CPR. In the
nineties this farm was taken over by Sam Kellaway, and Mr. Arscott came
to Killarney and worked at his trade which was blacksmithing. For
a time he had a blacksmith shop on Main Street. Then he went into
the coal and wood business.
(This
was phoned in by Gordon Arscott, Killarney, a son of Richard.
Richard
Arscott
- By Nora
Arscott Cowan
Richard
Arscott came from Devonshire, England, in 1875 or 1876, to Exeter,
Ontario, and was employed by the Verity Plough Company.
In 1882
he married Susan Ann Kellaway.
They
moved to Killarney, Manitoba, in 1888 and settled on the farm now
occupied by William Kellaway, and farmed with a yoke of oxen. In
1892 they moved to Killarney and operated a blacksmith shop on Main
Street and later operated the coal-and-wood-and-builders’-supply
business with his son, Norman.
They
were Anglicans and were active members of Holy Trinity Church.
They
built the house now occupied by Mr. Early, and the grounds were always
very well kept, showing shrubs, trees and flowers.
Richard
Arscott was a member of the Orange Lodge and the Foresters’
Lodge. He was a staunch Conservative.
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