Richard W. Pascoe (1818 – November 29, 1887) was a Cornish-American miner and mine supervisor.
Early life and career edit
Pascoe was born in Breage, a copper mining village in southern Cornwall, to John and Mary Pascoe. He begun work in the mines as a youth alongside his father and brothers, although unlike many local families, his mother and sisters did not work in the mines. After moving to Crowan as a young boy, by the 1830s Pascoe and his family settled in the mining village of Rosewarne, near Camborne. By 1840, he had been promoted to a mine captain, and was appointed to open a copper mine in Scotland. While in Edinburgh, he married a woman named Jessie Campbell, and the couple soon had their first child, a boy named Archibald. Sometime in late 1848 or early 1849, Pascoe emigrated to the United States, joined by his wife and son later in 1949.[1]
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Bibliography edit
- Donnelly, Ralph W. "The Confederate Lead Mines of Wythe County, Va." Civil War History 5, no. 4 (1959): 402-414. https://doi.org/10.1353/cwh.1959.0019.
- History of Northampton County [Pennsylvania] and the Grand Valley of the Lehigh (pg. 483) https://archive.org/details/historyofnortham03hell
- Kaas, L. Michael (2009). "The Silver Hill Mine: First Silver Mine in the United States and Supplier of Lead to the Confederacy" Mining History Journal. 16. https://www.mininghistoryassociation.org/Journal/MHJ-v16-2009-Kaas.pdf
- Kaas, L. Michael (2014). "Richard W. Pascoe, Mine Superintendent". Mining History Journal. 21. https://www.mininghistoryassociation.org/Journal/MHJ-v21-2014-Kaas.pdf