Eduardo Casey was an
Argentine
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born of
Irish
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parents in 1847 in
Buenos Aires
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. In 1880 he purchased of land in
Santa Fe Province
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and founded there the present-day city of
Venado Tuerto
Venado Tuerto () (Spanish for ''One Eyed Deer'') is a city in the south-west of the , 322 km from the provincial capital. It has about 76,000 inhabitants ().
History
Venado Tuerto was founded on April 26, 1884 by Eduardo Casey, born in L ...
, 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
Pigüé () is a town in Argentina located in the Pampas, south-west of Buenos Aires. It was founded by 165 Occitan-speaking French immigrants from Aveyron (Avairon in occitan) and one Argentine of direct Irish descent on December 4, 1884. The ur ...
,
Saavedra in 1884.
He was born in
Lobos, Province of Buenos Aires, the son of
Lawrence Casey
Lawrence Bernard Brennan Casey (September 6, 1905 – June 15, 1977) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the fifth bishop of the Diocese of Paterson in New Jersey (1966–1977). He previously served as an auxiliar ...
, born in
Westmeath
"Noble above nobility"
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, and Mary O'Neill, of
Wicklow
Wicklow ( ; ga, Cill Mhantáin , meaning 'church of the toothless one'; non, Víkingaló) is the county town of County Wicklow in Ireland. It is located south of Dublin on the east coast of the island. According to the 2016 census, it has ...
. He was married to María Inés Gahan, daughter of John Gahan and Mary Devitt, belonging to a family of Irish Catholics.
References
1847 births
1906 deaths
People from Buenos Aires
Argentine people of Irish descent
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