"Next door came the store of James O'Donnell, a bachelor, from the Old Country, and a very popular man of his day. He had a rare fund of wit and humor and a good word for all the world. Possessing all these genial and attractive qualities his friends always wondered that he remained a bachelor. He went back to Ireland in his old days and it is said spent his declining years in a monastery. Like Strickland and Rankin he carried on a wholesale and retail trade in wines and spirits. Amongst the clerks, was James Crowdell and the well known Maurice Corcoran, alias "Kidney Feet.""
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Patrick Kevin Devine, Ye Olde St. John's, 1750-1936, p.138, (1936). Available at: Memorial University Newfoundland, Centre for Newfoundland Studies - Digitized Books.
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