OBIT: John REILLY, 1904, native of Westmoreland County, PA
  
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  Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa.
  Friday, April 29, 1904
  Volume XXXVIII, Number 18
  
  Hon. John Reilly   
  
    Hon. John Reilly, formerly Democratic member of Congress from this 
  district and well known to every Cambria Countian, died at his 
  residence, 2015 Delancey Place, Philadelphia on Wednesday evening of 
  last week in his seventy-sixth year of a complication of diseases.
    He was born at New Florence, Pa., in 1828, being the eldest son of 
  Thomas Reilly one of the pioneer settlers of Western Pennsylvania.  He 
  entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company when a boy and 
  was prominently identified with its progress and interests until his 
  death.  He reached the office of vice president of the company in 1886, 
  from which he resigned to enter its consulting board, being considered 
  a master in transportation problems and the founder of its present car 
  record system.  Mr. Reilly was also a large stockholder in almost all 
  the industrial and mining concerns between Philadelphia and Pittsburg.
    He was married in 1876 to Miss Anna Lloyd of Hollidaysburg, who now 
  survives him, together with three children:  John, Garrett, and Marion 
  who reside in Philadelphia.  His only relatives in this vicinity at 
  present being a nephew, T. S. Reilly of Westmont and Mrs. Mary Reilly, 
  a sister-in-law of Wilmore. Mr. Reilly was an extremely popular and 
  generous man, liberal to all charities and will be remembered as a man 
  who never refused a political or official favor and who never forgot 
  the least of those who served under him. His funeral took place in 
  Philadelphia on Friday.