A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century
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A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century
Canada -- Biography
=Arnold, Wm. McCullough=, General Manager of the Ottawa Car
Manufacturing Company, was born at Ottawa, October 26, 1879, and is the
son of William and Georgiana (Eaton) Arnold. He was educated at Model
and Public Schools, Ottawa. At the age of sixteen (in 1895) he commenced
his business life by joining the firm of H. N. Bate & Sons, wholesale
grocers, as clerk, where he remained for five years. In 1900 he was
appointed accountant in the firm of T. Lindsay & Co., at that time
extensive retail dry goods merchants, Wellington Street, Ottawa, and
remained with the firm for two years. In 1902 he was appointed by the
then Minister of Customs, Hon. William Patterson, appraiser in the
Customs Dept., where he remained until 1911. In 1912 he became
Purchasing Agent for the Ottawa Car Manufacturing Company, and a year
later was promoted to the position of Assistant General Manager. In the
early part of January, 1918, Mr. Arnold became General Manager of the
Company. Aside from the immense business carried on by the Ottawa Car
Mfg. Co. in the manufacture of cars of all descriptions—wagons, street
and railway cars, etc.—under Mr. Arnold’s management the company have
erected, facing on Albert Street, and running back to Slater Street, the
largest and best equipped and, architecturally, the handsomest garage to
be found in the Dominion of Canada. It covers a floor space of 60,000
square feet and holds 300 automobiles. On December 5, 1900, Mr. Arnold
married Pearl Gladys Ritchie, daughter of William D. Ritchie,
Rockcliffe, Ont. He has two sons, William Russell and Lewis Arthur, and
one daughter, Dorothy. He is a prominent member in the A.F. & A.M. and
the I.O.O.F. Societies, a member of the Canadian Car Manufacturers
Association, and of the Connaught Park Jockey, the Laurentian and the
Canadian Clubs. Mr. Arnold is a Presbyterian in religion, and a Liberal
in politics. His recreations are hockey, lacrosse, bowling and
automobiling. He resides at 149 First Ave.
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