The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-04-22
DEATH OF JOIN 0'REILZY, OF MOBILE.
Mobile Register, April II.

N1Aooiio noSlstoE, AprlI I.l
This morning, at 10 O'Clock, at the Catbedr a
OF the Immaculate Con ception, the friends, tn,
| relatives of the late John o Reilly will meet Il
attend the solemn funeral Mass, which is to bt
and pious man who-iike the patriarch of old
departed this life yesterday morning full OF
years ard honors.
Born at Sligo. county Sligo Ireland, in the
year 1905. Mr.. John O'Reiliy could only re-
ceive III his native land that limited education
| which tyranny and foreign rule only allowed
TO the children OF race doubly prosecuted for
| the sake of origin and for the sake of it's reli-
gion. In this hard school of suffering, his
| manly heart early learned the hard lessons of
experience and acquired those habits of self
ground of his success in life.
Finding that the eyes of Irslsnd's some were
Turned hopefully towards the inviting shores
of the American Republic, he determined to
cast his lot In the New World, and, after q few
fPeregrinatiops through the land of his
dreams. he finally settled in Mobile In 1886
energies of bis race, he sought and soon OBJ
tanned Employment with the then fourishinH
firm of Toulmin. Hszsrd and Co., where his
sterling probity, his activity and his devotion
to his employ es' interests rapidly advanced
him in their good will, until in 1874, with
hardly no other Besns than bis own good
name and the general esteem which surrounded
flm, he founded the commercial house of
which, to the very last day of his life, he re-
NAMED the honored head.
Growing up with the then growing city,
as himself, Mr.. OReilly attained after many
years of honest and uutiring industry the
front rank in her commercial community and |
secured, for those whom he loved, q comfort |
able indepe ndepce. |
The gross public wrongs, which, in 1851 |
compelled the South to take mp arms and en-.
gage in the most unequal, az well as the most
sacred contests ever recorded in history, found |
him too old to enter the field, but aroused in
hi nj all the recoilections of the heroic struggles
Of his own native land, and whatever means
mi a
demanded of him, were freely offered and
given with d hountiful hand and q bounding
heart. II
The hollow peace which followed the gi
Iantic but hopeless struggle, left him much
educed in worldly circumstances, but, con-
cious of having done his duty to his adopted
country, he resumed his commercial pursuit
With bis wonted energy, and repsiTed-at
east in psrt-the sad havocs which war had
made in his present fortune.
Yet, for the last three or four years, serious
PHYSICAL disorders Sssailed him, and by de-
frees made fatal inroads on his iron constitu-
ion; these sutferings he bore with Christian
ortltude, and the patience taught by that
aitb of his fathers, which over seven centuries :
relentless prosecutions have not been able :
o crush on her native soil.
hr. OReiliy, quick and impetuous as most
his conntrymeu, was nevertheless one of =
be most charitable of men, and those whom I
IrUune had Frustrated, those who bad fallen y
y the way In the great race OF life, never II
illed to find In him sympathizipg heart and <
d open hand the ophans chiefly, whom he q
often relieved, will have good cause to cry +
yer the LOSES of 80 generous and so unostenta-
ous q benefactor. u
Mt John o Reilly leaves widow and Eve y
1ildren, one of whom has, on attaining her y
ajorIty, renounced the vain and d8Esling
mptations of the world and now does service y
her God as an hum bic religious of the order 10
the Sacred Heart. 2.
Mr.. John O'Reiiiy leaves no public record, but =
at which he has written in private life will u
1t soon be forgotten by those WbO have known "
at truly honest, good and piOus man. u