Eduardo Casey

Eduardo Casey was an Argentine born of Irish parents in 1847 in Buenos Aires.[1] In 1880 he purchased 1,700 square miles (4,400 km2) of land in Santa Fe Province and founded there the present-day city of Venado Tuerto, named after a one-eyed deer that alerted early settlers to attacks by local Indians. He also helped in the founding and funding of the Argentine town of Pigüé, Saavedra in 1884.[2]

Eduardo Casey
Personal details
Born1847
Lobos, Buenos Aires,
Died1906
Buenos Aires, Argentina
OccupationLandowner
entrepreneur

He was born in Lobos, Province of Buenos Aires, the son of Lawrence Casey, born in Westmeath, and Mary O'Neill, of Wicklow.[3] He was married to María Inés Gahan, daughter of John Gahan and Mary Devitt, belonging to a family of Irish Catholics.[4]

References
  1. Diario de sesiones, Buenos Aires (Argentina : Province).
  2. Congreso de Historia de los Pueblos de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Archivo Histórico de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
  3. Irlandeses, Eduardo Casey, vida y obra, Roberto E. Landaburu
  4. Los irlandeses en la Argentina:, Eduardo A. Coghlan


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