Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-05-13
DR.. ]. ]. REILLY
DIED LAST SUNDAY
Well Known Milton Physician and
Pioneer Resident of the County
Dies of Pneumonia
FUNERAL AT LANGDON
People of the Entire County Pay Fitting
Last Tribute to the Memory of Milton's
Well Known Medical Practitioner Who
First Located at Olga Thirty Years Ago.

Well Known Medical Practitioner Who
First Located at Olga Thirty Years Ago.
Monday morning the people of
Langdon found it hard to believe the
news which came in a telegram from
Bismarck telling of the death of DR..
]. j. Reilly, the we'll known Milton
physician. DR.. Reilly passed away at
eleven O'Clock Sunday forenoon, his
death resulting from pneumonia which
had followed an acute attack of tom
silitis during which an abscess had
formed in the throat, the breaking of |
which resulted in the rapid filling up
of the lungs and consequent suffoca-
tion. He was under the care of a |
Bismarck doctor from Friday until the
time of his death Sunday forenoon,
but until within an hour of his pass
ing away Doctor Reilly himself did
not appear to realize that his condition
was in anywise critical as he had been
troubled with affectations of the
throat on several occasions. The
messages, which conveyed to his
many Langdon friends and to his
brother, w. T. Reilly, and sister,
Mrs. ], w. Pratten, at Milton, the
news of the Doctors death were the
first intimation received by anyone
here that he was otherwise than in
his usual health. The messages from
Bismarck were sent by Peter Reid,
formerly of Langdon, who now holds
the position of deputy warden at the
state penitentiary. Mr. Reid, who
might be termed life long friend of
the doctor, accompanied the remains
from Bismarck to Fargo, where he
was met by the deceased's brother,
W. 7. Reilly, who conveyed them to
! Miltap, arriving there on Tuesdays
moon train. Yesterdays afternoon
train brought the funeral party from
Milton to Langdon when the remains
were given final resting place in
! Calvary cemetery in a grave by the
side of his younger brother, Edward
F. Reilly, the interment being pre-
ceded by g brief funeral service at the
grave, Rev. Father Thiell officiating.
The immediate relatives, the families
of W. T. Reilly and J. w. Pratten,
were accompanied on yesterdays sad
journey to Langdon by quite a large
concourse of the Milton and Osnabrock
friends of DR.. Reilly, who as medi-
cal practitioner here since 1885, was
known and held in high esteem by all
of the older residents of the county.
A coincidence which is interesting and
recalled by an old resident who has
known the deceased since first coming
to this county is the fact that yester-
day, May 18th, 1915, the date of the
funeral is the thirtieth anniversary of
the date when DR.. j. j. Reilly, a
young man who had just attained his
majority first came to Olga and hung
out his shingle as an M. D., on May
18th, 1885. In all these years Doc
Reilly had won for himself friend
ship within his wide circle as medi-
cal practitioner over the county, who
did not desert him in the darker hours
which have seemed to gather as clouds
over the sky of a bright career as it
began to draw to close. AS man
as we'll as family physician it can
be said that he stood we'll in his home
county 1t mattered not if the win
ter's blizzard was bowling out of
doors, or if he knew that a patient
were in Strengthened circumstances
financially, Doc. Reilly always stood
ready to respond to the call for his
professional services and eagerly gave
the best of his knowledge and skill to
save the life Of his fellow man. In
fact his practice came first and his
financial remuneration was only given
secondary consideration. An evidence
that DR.. ]. J. Reilly is not alone
mourned by those who knew him best
here in Cavalier county, where he had
lived for thirty years is found in the
fact that activity at the state peni-
tentiary at Bismarck was completely
suspended at the direction of Warden
Talcott during the time that DR..
Reilly's funeral was being held. Not
a wheel of the machinery moved and
the work of the inmates of that insti-
tuition ceased from the time the
funeral party left Milton at noon for
Langdon, until their leaving here at
three o'clock. What better testimony
could be offered of the esteem in
which the deceased was held during
the two years he had spent there, as
the result of conviction for what
there are many who stoutly maintain
he was innocent.