Michael Joseph Reilly

Michael Joseph Reilly

Male 1870 - 1942  (71 years)

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  • Name Michael Joseph Reilly 
    Alt. Birth 7 Aug 1870  Maidstone, Essex, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • Date of birth listed in St. Mary's of Maidstone's register is 8 Aug 1870.
    Born 8 Aug 1870  Maidstone, Essex, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Christened 28 Aug 1870  Maidstone, Essex, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Gender Male 
    Godparents 28 Aug 1870  Maidstone, Essex, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    • His godparents were Timothy McGuire and Marg. McGuire.
    Census 1871  Maidstone, Essex, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4

    • Riley, Michael, age 39, born Quebec, farmer
      Riley, Alace, age 38, born Ireland
      Riley, John, age 15, born Ontario, going to school
      Riley, Bridget, age 6, born Ontario, going to school
      Riley, James, age 4, born Ontario
      Riley, Alice, age 2, born Ontario
      Riley, Michel, age 8 mons, born Aug, Ontario.
    Census 10 Jun 1880  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    122 Franklin Street 

    • Reily, John
      age 25, laborer, born Canada, father born Canada, mother born Ireland
      Reily, Alice, age 49, mother, married, keeping house, consumption & bedridden, cannot read/write, born Ireland, parents born Ireland
      Reily, Alice, age 12, sister, at school, sore throat & bedridden, born Canada
      Reily, Bridget, age 17, sister, at home, born Canada
      Reily, James, age 15, brother, laborer, born Canada
      Reily, Michael, age 13, brother, at school, born Canada

      122 Franklin Street
    Residence 1889  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    1175 Jefferson Ave 
    • Reilly Michael, clk J G Patterson, bds 1175 Jefferson Ave
    Newspaper Article 13 Mar 1894  New York, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    BOXER - New York Times 
    • FOR CHAMPIONSHIP HONORS.;
      Some Western Boxers to Meet the Clever New-York Boxers.
      The lovers of good boxing and wrestling will be given a rare treat at Madison Square Garden on March 19 and 21. On these two evenings the Amateur Athletic Union will hold its annual boxing and wrestling championships, and from present indications it will be the most successful entertainment of its kind ever given in America.
      Notwithstanding the fact that the entries do no close till Wednesday, March 14, a great entry list has been received up to date. The Michigan Athletic Associations of Detroit has entered Michael J. Reilly, its clever 125 and 135 pound man, and his many Detroit admirers expect that he will make a grand showing. From Baltimore comes.......
    Newspaper Article 20 Mar 1894  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Detroit Free Press 
    • REILLY WON IN NEW YORK
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      The Clever M. A. A. Wrestler Did Well In the Trials
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      Morgan Knocked Out By Woods At Newport.
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      Galesburg Is Certainly Of Getting "Axtell" Williams
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      Hall is Looking for a Match-General Sporting Matters.
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      New York, March 19. - (Special.) - The annual boxing and wrestling championship tournament of the Amateur Athletic Union opened here at Madison Square Garden to-night. The classes in both branches of the sport filled very well and kept 3,000 spectators highly entertained for several hours. Detroit was creditably represented in the wrestling by M. J. Reilly, M.A.A. He made short work of the only opponent he met during the evening, and is looked a warm favorite for the finals. The winners of preliminary bouts in the respective classes were:
      ....
      125 pound class - Five men weighed in. In the first bout M. J. Reilly, Michigan A. C., Detroit, threw R. S. Baird, St. George's A. C., New York, in 37 seconds. Reilly went in to win without any cermony and after a few seconds caught his opponent in a half Nelson. The New Yorker struggled hard to get clear and in doing so landed on his back in a flying fall. Reilly seized the opportunity and pinned his man to the mat until he got the decision. Reilly's cleverness was loudly applauded.
      One hundred and thirty-five pound class - M. J. Reilly forfeited to Charles A. Kall, Lexington A. C. The western man did not care to jeopardise his chances in the other class and wisely decided to reserve himself for the final bout in the higher class, which he looks to winning on Wednesday night. His most dangerous opponents are thought to be Walsh, of Boston, and McGrew, of Pittsburg.
    Residence 1890-1899  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [9, 10
    1177 Jefferson Ave 
    • Reilly Michael, clk J G Patterson, bds 1177 Jefferson Ave.

      (1897 - Riley, Michael J)
    Census 1900  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [11
    1177 Jefferson (living with employer) 

    • Patterson, John G.,, 42 years, hardware Mer
      Patterson, Mary A, 42 years
      Patterson, Earl, 17 years
      Patterson, Marie A., 7 years
      Norris, Kate, servant, born Sep 1883
      Reiley, Michael, boarder, born Aug 1873, Michigan, father born Ireland, mother born New York, hardware clerk
    Occupation 1900  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [11
    hardware clerk 
    • Living with owner of hardware where he worked.
    Occupation 1903-1909  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    travel agent 
    • City directories
      1903- Michael J jr, trav agt, h 311 Hurlbut Ave
      1905- Michl J, trav agt, h 1179 Jefferson Ave
      1906- Michl J, trav agt, h 195 Helen St
      1908- Michl J, trav aget, h 249 Field Ave
      1909- Michl J, trav agt, h 160 E Grand Blvd
    Census 1910  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [12
    1254 Congress St. East 

    • Reily, Michael J, 37 years, married 8 years, born Can English, father born Ireland, mother born Can English, salesman, Stove Works
      Reily, Catherine, 37 years, born Can English
    City Directory 1915-1916  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [13
    1015 Jefferson 
    • Reilly Michl J, slsmn MSCo (Michigan Stove Co), h 1015 Jefferson Ave
    Census 1920  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [14
    131 Baldwin 

    • Norris, Anna, 52 years, born Canada
      Reilly, Micheal M. J., lodger, 48 years, immigrated 1884, citizen 1893, born Canada, parents born Canada, salesman, Mich. Stove Co.
      Reilly, Catherine M., lodger, 42 years, born Canada
    City Directory 1921  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [15
    613 Baldwin 
    • Reilly Michl J slsmn b613 Baldwin av

      note: Anna Norris also lives at this address
    Passport 21 Nov 1921  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [16
    application 
    • Michael J. Reilly, .....accompanied by his wife Catherine Reilly, born in ? Canada March 15, 1874. I ...swear that I was born at Essex County, Ontario on 8 August 1870; that my father Michael Reilly was born in Canada, he emigrated to United States from Canada on or about 1880 and he resided 26 years uninterruptedly in United States from 1880 to 1906 at Rolette County, N. Dakota and Detroit, Mich; that he was naturalized...before the District Court of Rolette County N. Dakota at North Dakota on June 12, 1890 as soon by accompanying Certificate of Naturalization; that I am the son of the person described in certificate; that I have resided..., for 41 years, from 1880 to 1921 in Detroit, Mich.,...permanent residence being at Detroit....occupation of Salesman.
      I am ......abroad temporarily....return with five months.... (touring) Italy, Switzerland, France & Belgium. I...leave ....from the port of New York sailing on board the Corona on Dec. 7th, 1921.
      Description:
      39 years; 5 ft 5 in; high forehead; brown eyes; regular nose; medium mouth; round chin; brown hair; fair complextion; oval face

    City Directory 1927  Grosse Pointe, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [17
    464 Neff Rd 
    • Reilly Michl J (Cath) pres Rau's h464 Neff Rd (GPV)

      Note: home was built in 1926 so it was probable that he had it built.
    Residence 1930  Grosse Pointe, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [18
    464 Neff Rd 
    • Reilly Michl J (Kath) pres Rau's Inc h 464 Neff rd (GPV)
    Census 1940  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [19
    415 Burns Drive (607) - Whittier Apartments 

    • Reilly, Michael J, 68 years, 8th grade education, born Canada-English, residence in 1935 Grosse Pointe, vice president, pillow factory
      Reilly, Catherine, 67 years, born Canada-English, residence 1935 Grosse Pointe
    Died 13 Jul 1942  Sylvan, Osceola, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 20
    Newspaper Article 14 Jul 1942  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [21
    The Detroit News 
    • DEATH OF A WRESTLER by George W. Stark
      Michael J. Reilly died of a heart attack Monday morning up in the north Michigan country that he loved to be with his dogs and guns, and that, I suppose, to the younger generation of sports fans wouldn't mean much but to the Old Timers it means pretty near everything, for Mike Reilly, as we knew him, was more than a great athlete. He was a fine Irish gentleman with a great heart. And a true sportsman, which is the finest thing, I guess, that can be said about a man.
      He was a wrestler, Mike was, back in the days when there was dignity to that sport. He'd come out of Canada back a long time ago (they tell me Mike was 72) and we kids on the East Side first knew him when he was a sort of boy of all work for J. G. Patterson, who had the hardware store on Jefferson near Mt. Elliott.
      Mike has his own peculiar niche in that glamorous East Side picture, when the Irish lads out there, the growing sons of the immigrants who had been infiltrated into the Detroit population in the middle of the last century, were learning to be athletes. Downtown Detroit had its old Detroit Athletic Club, it's true, but on the east side was the Michigan Athletic Association, later to be called the Michigan Athletic Club. Later the Detroit University School took over the building and grounds at Elmwood avenue and between Larned and Congress streets. The big field still stands and in the building, the Recreation Commission has established headquarters.
      Out Jefferson avenue near the Patterson hardware store was Scullen's Field and close to Leib street was Frost's and from these rolling meadows many a big leaguer was to emerge. Mick Murphy and Keene Fitzpatrick, the famous trainers, came into the picture. Mike later went to Yale and Penn, Keene to Michigan and Princeton. While here they turned out the world's fastest runners: John Owen, Harry Jewett, Barney Wefers. And once they produced the best soccer foot ball team in the world, besides training some of the greatest amateur base ball outfits that wore the colors of the old DAC.
      But Mike went in for wrestling, of all things. And Mike and Keene trained their expert eyes on that lithe young body and decided that Mike would do. He took all comers in the 135-pound class, won the championship of America. He stepped out of his own class to beat the heavier boys. He was still a champion when he retired.
      In his later years he made the North Country his home and there hunted and fished with his pals and had a good time with his dogs.
      Winters he lived here at the Whittier, spent his leisure moments fanning with old friends. As a boy I looked on Mike as a Greek god. Through the years I came to know him as a fine Irish gentleman with a great heart and a gentle Irish humor. But just the same, I never thought of him as anything less than godlike, in the manner of the athletes of antiquity.
    Name Michael J. Reilly  [21
    Name Michael Reilly  [3
    Name Micheal Joseph Reilly  [2
    _UID 74A31FD0410940989D959D4E26DA0BA1F162 
    Buried 15 Jul 1942 
    • per Alyce Gauthier
    Person ID I310  Gauthier Family Tree
    Last Modified 25 Aug 2019 

    Father Michael Reilly,   b. Cal 18 Sep 1831, Frampton (St. Edouard), Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Mar 1906, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years) 
    Mother Alice McHugh,   b. Abt 1833, County Cavan, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Jun 1880, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 47 years) 
    Married 23 Feb 1852  Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [22
    Michael Reilly and Alice McHugh marriage
    Michael Reilly and Alice McHugh marriage
    L'Assomption Church, Sandwich, Essex County, Ontario
    Reilly - McHugh marriage
    Reilly - McHugh marriage
    Marriage Ceremony 23 Feb 1852  Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [22
    • The ceremony was held had L'Assomption de Sandwich, Windsor. Present was Philippe McKeon and John Mcfarlan. Signed Micheal Reily, Philip Mc Hugh, and John McPharlin.
    Family ID F90  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Katherine Norris,   b. 15 Mar 1874, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 28 Nov 1902  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [23
    • 1910 census states they were married for 8 years
    Witness 28 Nov 1902  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [23
    • The witnesses were Jas Norris and Alice Norris.
    Last Modified 1 Sep 2016 
    Family ID F2118  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    Michael J. Reilly passport photo
    Michael J. Reilly passport photo

  • Notes 
    • (Research):It was said that "Uncle Mike" owned one of the first travel trailers. He had a chaffeur who would drive the car with the trailer while Mike sat in the backseat. (Trailers became popular in the 1920's)

      1911-1913, 1915 living with Anna (Miss) (or Anna R) Norris at 1015 Jefferson Ave

      1922-1923, (1924 missing) 1925, (1926 missing) not listed in city directory

  • Sources 
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