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• Name: Michael J. Reilly
• Name: Michael Reilly
• Name: Micheal Joseph Reilly
• _UID: 74A31FD0410940989D959D4E26DA0BA1F162
• Alt. Birth: 7 Aug 1870, Maidstone, Essex, Ontario, Canada
• Godparents: 28 Aug 1870, Maidstone, Essex, Ontario, Canada
• Census: 1871, Maidstone, Essex, Ontario, Canada
• Census: 10 Jun 1880, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States; 122 Franklin Street
• Residence: 1889, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States; 1175 Jefferson Ave
• Newspaper Article: 13 Mar 1894, New York, New York, United States; BOXER - New York Times
• Newspaper Article: 20 Mar 1894, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States; Detroit Free Press
• Residence: 1890-1899, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States; 1177 Jefferson Ave
• Census: 1900, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States; 1177 Jefferson (living with employer)
• Occupation: 1900, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States; hardware clerk
• Occupation: 1903-1909, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States; travel agent
• Census: 1910, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States; 1254 Congress St. East
• City Directory: 1915-1916, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States; 1015 Jefferson
• Census: 1920, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States; 131 Baldwin
• City Directory: 1921, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States; 613 Baldwin
• Passport: 21 Nov 1921, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States; application
• City Directory: 1927, Grosse Pointe, Wayne, Michigan, United States; 464 Neff Rd
• Residence: 1930, Grosse Pointe, Wayne, Michigan, United States; 464 Neff Rd
• Census: 1940, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States; 415 Burns Drive (607) - Whittier Apartments
• Newspaper Article: 14 Jul 1942, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States; The Detroit News

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

Alt. Birth:
Date of birth listed in St. Mary's of Maidstone's register is 8 Aug 1870.

Godparents:
His godparents were Timothy McGuire and Marg. McGuire.

Census:

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:

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:
Reilly Michael, clk J G Patterson, bds 1175 Jefferson Ave

Newspaper Article:
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:
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:
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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:
Reilly Michael, clk J G Patterson, bds 1177 Jefferson Ave.

(1897 - Riley, Michael J)

Census:

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:
Living with owner of hardware where he worked.

Occupation:
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:

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:
Reilly Michl J, slsmn MSCo (Michigan Stove Co), h 1015 Jefferson Ave

Census:

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:
Reilly Michl J slsmn b613 Baldwin av

note: Anna Norris also lives at this address

Passport:
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:
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:
Reilly Michl J (Kath) pres Rau's Inc h 464 Neff rd (GPV)

Census:

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

Newspaper Article:
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.

Buried:
per Alyce Gauthier

Michael married Katherine Norris on 28 Nov 1902 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. Katherine was born on 15 Mar 1874 in Canada; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]