Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Reilley, Patrick 1848 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

PATRICK REILLEY.

    Patrick Reilley, at present of the Reilley Plumbing Company of Hammond, is a
man of broad and varied business and industrial experience, covering several
important fields of human activity and in different parts of the country. He has
known a life of busy and useful effort since he was a young boy, when he joined
the naval service of the United States while the Civil war was still in
progress. While with the navy he saw much of the inhabited part of the globe. He
came west to Hammond, about twenty years ago, to identify himself with the
butterine department of the packing company, and since then has embarked in the
plumbing business, in which he has been most successfully employed for a number
of years. He is now able to rely and place much responsibility on the shoulders
of his stalwart sons, and he has good reason to be proud of his fine family,
which he has reared to careers of usefulness in addition to performing well his
own part in life. He has entered much into public affairs since taking up his
residence in Hammond, has been honored with the office of mayor of the city, and
in many ways is identified prominently with the life and welfare of his community.

    Mr. Reilley was born in Verplanck's Point, New York, January 1, 1848, a son
of James and Bridget (O'Donnell) Reilley, both natives of Ireland, where their
parents lived and died. His father followed various pursuits in young manhood.
He was a brick-maker by trade, and on coming to America settled in New York
state. He was for some time superintendent of the Second Avenue car stables, and
in 1855 was killed there by the kick of a horse. He and his wife were both Roman
Catholics. His wife survived him three years, and by her second husband, John
Allen, had one son, John Allen, Jr. There were six children, two sons and four
daughters, born to James and Bridget Reilley, but only two are now living:
Patrick and Bridget, the latter the wife of John Hessick, of Lebanon, Indiana.

    Mr. Patrick Reilley lived in New York state until after the breaking out of
the Civil war, and received his early education in that state. On October 23,
1863, when fifteen years old, he enlisted at Philadelphia in the United States
Marine Corps, and served as drummer for five years, three months and eight days.
He re-enlisted at the close of his service, and went to Europe in the United
States frigate Guerriere. He served four years in all, and was also assigned to
other ships, the Don, the De Soto and the Brooklyn. After leaving that
department of naval work he was employed in the Brooklyn navy yard for some
time, and later began the manufacture of butterine at Charlestown,
Massachusetts. He was in the employ of the Standard Butter Manufacturing Company
for some time, and later with John Reardon and Son of Cambridgeport,
Massachusetts. In 1884 he came to Hammond to accept the position of
superintendent of the Hammond butterine department, remaining with the company
for twelve years. He resigned and went into the plumbing and later into the
grocery business with his sons James and Edward, confining his attention to that
line of merchandising for three years. For the past six years he has given his
principal energies to the conduct of the Reilley Plumbing Company, which has a
large and profitable patronage in this city.

    Mr. Reilley gives his political allegiance to the Democratic party. He
served as councilman of the third ward for eight years, and for the last
eighteen months of that time acted as mayor. Two years later he was reelected to
the council, and was afterward elected to the office of mayor, which he held
four years. He and his wife and family are members of the Catholic church, and
he affiliates with the Knights of Columbus, the Catholic Order of Foresters, the
Independent Order of Foresters of the State of Indiana, the Ancient Order of
United Workmen and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He has lived at
his pleasant home at 283 South Hohman street for the past eighteen years.

    Mr. Reilley married Miss Mary A. McSweeney, a daughter of Edward and Mary
(Murphy) McSweeney. They are the parents of thirteen children, eight of whom are
living, as follows: Mary Ann, James C., Edward, Catherine, Bessie, Nora, Julia
and Joseph. James C. married Josie Enright.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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