BIO: William F. Reily, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                            CHAPTER XXXVIII.

                          BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

392  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  WILLIAM F. REILY, physician, Carlisle, is a native of Cumberland 
County, Penn., born at Carlisle, December 2, 1851.  His grandfather, 
James Reily, who was born in Ireland and there educated for the 
priesthood, when a young man emigrated to America and settled in 
Cumberland County, Penn., and was here married.  William, a son of 

393  BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

James, married Miss Elizabeth Kernan and to them were born three sons 
and one daughter:  Rev. Dr. Theo. M. Reily (professor of ecclesiastical 
history in the theological seminary at Nashotah, Wis.), Thomas A. Reily 
(late second lieutenant in the Fifth United States Infantry from 1867 
to 1871, when he resigned and returned to Carlisle; also chosen captain 
of Company G, Eighth Regiment National Guard of Pennsylvania, at its 
organization, and subsequently made lieutenant-colonel of the 
regiment), Euphemia Parker Reily (who resides with her mother in 
Carlisle), and Dr. W. F. Reily.  Our subject attended the common school 
of Carlisle until eighteen years of age, when he entered Dickinson 
College, and later entered the medical department of the University of 
Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in March, 
1875.  He then located at Carlisle, where he has since been actively 
engaged in the practice of his profession.  He is a member of the 
Cumberland County Medical Society, and of the Medical Society of 
Pennsylvania.  The Doctor and wife are members of the St. John's 
Episcopal Church, of which he is one of the vestrymen.  Dr. Reily is a 
past master of St. John's Lodge, No. 260, F. & A. M.  He has been 
physician to the county asylum since 1885.