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Richard W. Pascoe (1818 – November 29, 1887) was a Cornish-American miner and mine supervisor.

Early life and career
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.