Roscoe Arbuckle a feature film. Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle was born on March 24, 1887, in Smith Center, Kansas, one of nine children of Mary E. "Mollie" Gordon (d. February 19, 1898) and William Goodrich Arbuckle. He weighed in excess of at birth and, as both parents had slim builds, his father believed the child was not his. Consequently, he named the baby after a politician (and notorious philanderer) whom he despised, Republican senator Roscoe Conkling of New York. The birth was traumatic for Mollie and resulted in chronic health problems that contributed to her death 12 years later. When Arbuckle was nearly
Roscoe, South Dakota Roscoe, South Dakota Roscoe is a city in Edmunds County, South Dakota in the United States. The population was 329 at the 2010 census. Roscoe was laid out in 1877, and named in honor of Roscoe Conkling, a United States Senator from New York. Roscoe is located at (45.450306, -99.336783). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. Roscoe has been assigned the ZIP code 57471 and the FIPS place code 55820. As of the census of 2010, there were 329 people, 153 households, and 83 families residing in