SUDDEN DEATH OF
CONDUCTOR JAMES REILLY
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James F. Reilly, veteran conductor on the Cornwall Railroad, and known widely throughout the city, died very suddenly on Wednesday evening about 7 o'clock, at his home, 1268 Willow Street.
He had been in failing health since a little more than a year ago when he suffered an illness which kept him from his post of duty for five months. While he seemed to be on a fair way to recovery of his normal health when he returned to his work following the illness, it soon developed that he had been afflicted with an ailment that would not so soon yield to medical treatment. He was about his work since then, however, and only intimate friends knew that he was not in the robust condition condition his physical appearance indicated.
On Monday of this week he went out for his first passenger run of the day, as usual, but returned home shortly afterward ill. A physician described the ailment as an ulcer on his lung and expressed a hope that it would be suffused in a few days. After two days treatment there were symptoms of such happy culmination. As late as 5 o'clock, Wednesday afternoon, the patient appeared on a fair way but shortly thereafter he suffered a serious relapse and expired before the attending physician could be located.
Mr. Reilly was born and raised at Cornwall, and as a mere boy operated the "car-dropper" at the ore mines at Miners Village. It was this position that formed the stepping stone to a job on the Cornwall Railroad, first as a freight brakeman and then as a freight conductor. It was the latter position that he met with an accident on which his leg was broken in a manner that could never be properly reset and left him a cripple for life. He was later transferred to the passenger service however, and for a long term of years past was conductor of the passenger train which plies between Lebanon and Manheim. He was continuously in the service of the road for forty years.
His continuous good humor, radiant geniality and affability, made him as popular with patrons of the road as he was with his neighbors and in the social circles he frequented, and his strict attention to duty and his general efficiency made him a valued employee of the railroad company. His sudden death brought a serious shock to many circle where he was held in highest regard.
He was 61 years of age. He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church and was identified with the Bethlehem Steel Relief, the Holy Name Society, Fireman's Aid, Fraternal Order of Moose.
Besides his wife, nee Mary Reilly, he leaves five children at home -- James, Edward, Robert, Agnes and Veronica, and three married daughters, Mrs. James Lowry, Mrs. Cramer Daugherty, and Mrs. Arthur Price; a sister, Agnes, wife of John Allwein, and a brother, Stephen H. Reilly, trainmaster of the Cornwall Railroad. There are five grandchildren.
[Lebanon Semi-Weekly News - February 7, 1924]
CONDUCTOR JAMES REILLY
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James F. Reilly, veteran conductor on the Cornwall Railroad, and known widely throughout the city, died very suddenly on Wednesday evening about 7 o'clock, at his home, 1268 Willow Street.
He had been in failing health since a little more than a year ago when he suffered an illness which kept him from his post of duty for five months. While he seemed to be on a fair way to recovery of his normal health when he returned to his work following the illness, it soon developed that he had been afflicted with an ailment that would not so soon yield to medical treatment. He was about his work since then, however, and only intimate friends knew that he was not in the robust condition condition his physical appearance indicated.
On Monday of this week he went out for his first passenger run of the day, as usual, but returned home shortly afterward ill. A physician described the ailment as an ulcer on his lung and expressed a hope that it would be suffused in a few days. After two days treatment there were symptoms of such happy culmination. As late as 5 o'clock, Wednesday afternoon, the patient appeared on a fair way but shortly thereafter he suffered a serious relapse and expired before the attending physician could be located.
Mr. Reilly was born and raised at Cornwall, and as a mere boy operated the "car-dropper" at the ore mines at Miners Village. It was this position that formed the stepping stone to a job on the Cornwall Railroad, first as a freight brakeman and then as a freight conductor. It was the latter position that he met with an accident on which his leg was broken in a manner that could never be properly reset and left him a cripple for life. He was later transferred to the passenger service however, and for a long term of years past was conductor of the passenger train which plies between Lebanon and Manheim. He was continuously in the service of the road for forty years.
His continuous good humor, radiant geniality and affability, made him as popular with patrons of the road as he was with his neighbors and in the social circles he frequented, and his strict attention to duty and his general efficiency made him a valued employee of the railroad company. His sudden death brought a serious shock to many circle where he was held in highest regard.
He was 61 years of age. He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church and was identified with the Bethlehem Steel Relief, the Holy Name Society, Fireman's Aid, Fraternal Order of Moose.
Besides his wife, nee Mary Reilly, he leaves five children at home -- James, Edward, Robert, Agnes and Veronica, and three married daughters, Mrs. James Lowry, Mrs. Cramer Daugherty, and Mrs. Arthur Price; a sister, Agnes, wife of John Allwein, and a brother, Stephen H. Reilly, trainmaster of the Cornwall Railroad. There are five grandchildren.
[Lebanon Semi-Weekly News - February 7, 1924]
SUDDEN DEATH OF
CONDUCTOR JAMES REILLY
******************************
James F. Reilly, veteran conductor on the Cornwall Railroad, and known widely throughout the city, died very suddenly on Wednesday evening about 7 o'clock, at his home, 1268 Willow Street.
He had been in failing health since a little more than a year ago when he suffered an illness which kept him from his post of duty for five months. While he seemed to be on a fair way to recovery of his normal health when he returned to his work following the illness, it soon developed that he had been afflicted with an ailment that would not so soon yield to medical treatment. He was about his work since then, however, and only intimate friends knew that he was not in the robust condition condition his physical appearance indicated.
On Monday of this week he went out for his first passenger run of the day, as usual, but returned home shortly afterward ill. A physician described the ailment as an ulcer on his lung and expressed a hope that it would be suffused in a few days. After two days treatment there were symptoms of such happy culmination. As late as 5 o'clock, Wednesday afternoon, the patient appeared on a fair way but shortly thereafter he suffered a serious relapse and expired before the attending physician could be located.
Mr. Reilly was born and raised at Cornwall, and as a mere boy operated the "car-dropper" at the ore mines at Miners Village. It was this position that formed the stepping stone to a job on the Cornwall Railroad, first as a freight brakeman and then as a freight conductor. It was the latter position that he met with an accident on which his leg was broken in a manner that could never be properly reset and left him a cripple for life. He was later transferred to the passenger service however, and for a long term of years past was conductor of the passenger train which plies between Lebanon and Manheim. He was continuously in the service of the road for forty years.
His continuous good humor, radiant geniality and affability, made him as popular with patrons of the road as he was with his neighbors and in the social circles he frequented, and his strict attention to duty and his general efficiency made him a valued employee of the railroad company. His sudden death brought a serious shock to many circle where he was held in highest regard.
He was 61 years of age. He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church and was identified with the Bethlehem Steel Relief, the Holy Name Society, Fireman's Aid, Fraternal Order of Moose.
Besides his wife, nee Mary Reilly, he leaves five children at home -- James, Edward, Robert, Agnes and Veronica, and three married daughters, Mrs. James Lowry, Mrs. Cramer Daugherty, and Mrs. Arthur Price; a sister, Agnes, wife of John Allwein, and a brother, Stephen H. Reilly, trainmaster of the Cornwall Railroad. There are five grandchildren.
[Lebanon Semi-Weekly News - February 7, 1924]
CONDUCTOR JAMES REILLY
******************************
James F. Reilly, veteran conductor on the Cornwall Railroad, and known widely throughout the city, died very suddenly on Wednesday evening about 7 o'clock, at his home, 1268 Willow Street.
He had been in failing health since a little more than a year ago when he suffered an illness which kept him from his post of duty for five months. While he seemed to be on a fair way to recovery of his normal health when he returned to his work following the illness, it soon developed that he had been afflicted with an ailment that would not so soon yield to medical treatment. He was about his work since then, however, and only intimate friends knew that he was not in the robust condition condition his physical appearance indicated.
On Monday of this week he went out for his first passenger run of the day, as usual, but returned home shortly afterward ill. A physician described the ailment as an ulcer on his lung and expressed a hope that it would be suffused in a few days. After two days treatment there were symptoms of such happy culmination. As late as 5 o'clock, Wednesday afternoon, the patient appeared on a fair way but shortly thereafter he suffered a serious relapse and expired before the attending physician could be located.
Mr. Reilly was born and raised at Cornwall, and as a mere boy operated the "car-dropper" at the ore mines at Miners Village. It was this position that formed the stepping stone to a job on the Cornwall Railroad, first as a freight brakeman and then as a freight conductor. It was the latter position that he met with an accident on which his leg was broken in a manner that could never be properly reset and left him a cripple for life. He was later transferred to the passenger service however, and for a long term of years past was conductor of the passenger train which plies between Lebanon and Manheim. He was continuously in the service of the road for forty years.
His continuous good humor, radiant geniality and affability, made him as popular with patrons of the road as he was with his neighbors and in the social circles he frequented, and his strict attention to duty and his general efficiency made him a valued employee of the railroad company. His sudden death brought a serious shock to many circle where he was held in highest regard.
He was 61 years of age. He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church and was identified with the Bethlehem Steel Relief, the Holy Name Society, Fireman's Aid, Fraternal Order of Moose.
Besides his wife, nee Mary Reilly, he leaves five children at home -- James, Edward, Robert, Agnes and Veronica, and three married daughters, Mrs. James Lowry, Mrs. Cramer Daugherty, and Mrs. Arthur Price; a sister, Agnes, wife of John Allwein, and a brother, Stephen H. Reilly, trainmaster of the Cornwall Railroad. There are five grandchildren.
[Lebanon Semi-Weekly News - February 7, 1924]
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