Connor O'Dea, Kilrush to Toronto

[smcarberry]

I checked the Forum's archives and found that I had not posted this. Found in my saved materials while reviewing all things Canadian.

S. Carberry


“Toronto, old and new: a memorial volume, historical, descriptive and pictorial, designed to mark the hundredth anniversary of the passing of the Constitutional act of 1791" by G. Adam (Toronto: Mail Printing Co., 1891)
http://www.archive.org/stream/torontool ... t_djvu.txt
p. 130?
Mr. Connor O Dea, proprietor of the British American Business College, was born at Kilrush, Clare Co., Ireland, June 25, 1844. Coming to this country at the age of eight with his parents, he resided in Bolton Village, Cardwell County, until in 1864 he entered and graduated from the British American Business College in this city. He was then... by the principals. Messrs. Musgrove & Wright, as teacher of penmanship, book-keeping, and arithmetic. This position he held for fifteen years, until he was appointed Secretary and Manager, which he held till 1885, when he became proprietor.

Through his efforts a weak and financially involved institution was built up to what is now one of the most flourishing of its kind in Canada. Mr. O Dea is the author of two text-books used extensively in business colleges throughout Canada and the United States "The Practical Hook-keeper," and the "Manual of Correspondence." The latter is in its tenth edition, and nearly 20,000 copies have been sold since its first publication in 1887.