Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: John E. REILLY

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Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, <rmontgomery@cishome.com> June 2005

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John E. Reilly 1859-1923

John E. Reilly, who died at his home at Beloit, Friday, December 7, was
born in Madison, Wisconsin, March 27, 1859, coming to Evansville when a
small child with his parents, where he received his education and made his
home until fifteen years ago when the needs of his business made it
necessary for him to remove to Beloit, where he has made his home since.

For ten years, Mr. Reilly was agent for the Standard Oil Company in this
city, the company then moving him to Beloit, where he put in fifteen more
years in its employ, making him one of the oldest employees in point of
service, that company has ever had.

The deceased was a member of the Court of Honor, the E. F. U. and the Elks,
the funeral services at Beloit being largely attended. Interment was made
in the Evansville Cemetery, where a large number of his old friends and
associates gathered to show their respect for a man whom they had known for
a long period when he was in business in this city.

There is left to mourn his loss, his wife and two daughters, Miss Grace
Reilly, and Mrs. Charles Iunghuhn, both of Beloit; four sisters, Mrs. Mike
Holden, Evansville, Mrs. Charles Bartlett, Beloit, Mrs. John Douglas,
Mansfield, Ill., Mrs. Kate Speer, Jefferson, Wisconsin and one brother,
Emmett Reilly, of Milwaukee.

To the hosts of old friends in this city who knew him, during his many
years of business in Evansville, the announcement of the death of John
Reilly, still in the prime of life, comes as sad news. His great strength
of character, intelligence of more than the average, and sterling traits of
characters expressed in his business and social dealings with his fellow
men had made for him many friends who hold for his feelings of kindness and
regard, far in excess of the ordinary feelings of friendship.

December 13, 1923, Evansville Review, Evansville, Wisconsin