Edward and Mary J Reiley
Information comes from the Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century
Published by J M Armstrong & Company 1878
REILEY, EDWARD, Lawyer, was born March 10, 1820 in Campbell County, Kentucky. His parents were William and Elizabeth (Morin) Reiley; the former a native of Washington County, Pennsylvania and of German extraction; and the latter of Culpepper County, Virginia and of Irish and English origin. His grandfather, John Reiley, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War; emigrated to Kentucky, in 1789, landing at Limestone, now Maysville, but afterwards removed to Fayette County, on the Elkhorn.
William Reiley, his father, yet living, was a mechanic and farmer; was for several years a member of the Legislature of Kentucky; was for some time, a magistrate in Campbell County and was intimately connected with the early history and subsequent prosperity and growth of that county.
His grandfather, Edward Morin, was also a soldier in the Revolution and one of the early pioneers of Bourbon County. Edward Reiley was raised on the farm where he worked until he came of age. He attended the neighborhood schools, several good select schools and for a time, Clermont Academy in Ohio. He chose the law for a profession but in 1845 began teaching school, and was thus employed for several Winter terms, while preparing for practice, having read law in Cincinnati, with Adam N Riddle, Esq. In 1850 he was admitted to the bar at Cincinnati and at once entered on his profession at Independence, Kentucky.
In 1854, he removed to Covington and after a successful practice of six years' duration, he changed his residence to Canton Station, on account of impaired health. In 1867 he located at Alexandria in Campbell County, where he has since resided, actively engaged in his profession.
He was elected County Attorney for Kenton County, serving a year; and in 1854 was elected County Judge of Kenton County and served four years. Judge Reiley is a Republican in politics and during the war of the rebellion was known as an earnest, unflinching Union man. Yet his first Presidential vote was given for James K Polk and his last, preceding the war, to Stephen A Douglas. He is a man of fine personal and social habits and of great integrity of character.
He was married November 9, 1854 to Mary J Reddick, a native of Kenton County and daughter of William J Reddick, a farmer of that county.
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Children of Edward Reilly and Mary J Reddick
William L Reilly b-25 Oct 1856 in Covington;
Cynthia Elizabeth Reilly b-19 July 1858 in Covington; d-5 Aug 1940 Dayton Ky. br-Alexandria
Cemetery
Mary Alice Reilly b-20 Dec 1865 in Canton Station Ky. d-7 Dec 1935 in
Alexandria; br-Alexandria
Charles A Reilly b-Dec 1867 in Alexandria; d-9 Feb 1951 in Alexandria; br-Alexandria
Harry Mosby Reilly b-Apr 1870 in Alexandria; d-4 Oct 1951 in Dayton Ky. br-Alexandria
Arthur F Reilly b-May 1872 in Alexandria
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Judge Edward Reilly 1917 Obituary