George Arnold (settler)

George Arnold was an early Scottish settler in Ontario, and the owner of Arnolds General Store on Richmond Road in the Corners. He purchased the store from his brotherinlaw, Andrew Main in the 1840s. When the post office first opened in 1851 the community had to adopt a more formal name and was named Bells Corners after Hugh Bell. OnAugust 1851 George Arnold became the first postmaster of the Bells Corners Post Office. After the great fire of 1870, he rebuilt facing the west instead of the north. George Arnold held the position of postmaster until his death onOctober 1891. He and his wife had two sons and a daughter.

Another son, William Arnold, born in Bells Corners in 1851, married Georgiana Eaton of Buckingham, Quebec onMay 1875. They both lived to celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary in 1945.

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