History of the County of Middlesex, Canada
p.951
Michael F. O'Mara is a pork and provision dealer, of London, Ont.
Among the many industries of any city, few have so important bearing in our commerical fabric
as the reliable provision dealer, contributing as he does the very necessities of our daily life;
and among the leading men in this line in London is the name that heads this sketch.
M.F. O'Mara is a native of Ireland, and he was born in 1855,
and is the son of Andrew O'Mara and Catherine McMannus,
both natives of Tipperary County, Ireland.
The family immigrated to America in 1868, and settled in London, Ontario,
where the father conducted a successful business as a pork packer and general provision dealer,
until his death in 1878.
He left, besides his widow, two sons and four daughters.
The business was continued by the two sons, Michael and John M.,
until the death of the latter in 1886.
Since that date the subject of this sketch has conducted the business with signal success.
He has been reared to the business, and has had valuable experience for one of his years,
both in London and in the States, having spent some time in St. Louis, Missouri,
and is thoroughly familiar with all the duties of his calling.
His places of business on Dundas Street and in the "Market Bazaar" are models of neatness,
and always well supplied with the best meat in their line that the market affords.
He cures his own hams and bacon, renders his own lard, and makes his own sausages. The success, which is his, has been achieved by unceasing industry, through the possession of good business insight, and not a little through the esteem in which he is held by the business public; and he has what all men court, the confidence of those with whom he has dealings.
p.33
A reference to:
"where O'Mara Bros. had their pork
packery on West Dundas street, in 1881"