Eduardo Casey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eduardo Casey

Argentine landowner

Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1847

Place of Birth: Lobos, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1906

Profession: businessperson

Nationality: Argentina

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Eduardo Casey was an Argentine born of Irish parents in 1847 in Buenos Aires.
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.He was born in Lobos, Province of Buenos Aires, the son of Lawrence Casey, born in Westmeath, and Mary O'Neill, of Wicklow.
He was married to María Inés Gahan, daughter of John Gahan and Mary Devitt, belonging to a family of Irish Catholics.