Mary Trimble Reiley (May 15 or May 17, 1858 – October 16, 1878) was an American poet.https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict00knig/page/364/mode/2up pages ix-xivHistory and genealogy of the Reed familythe Biographical dictionary of Southern authors, p.365The Story of the Arndts, pp.316-317 Her poems included one about the slaughter of John Gair. She was the daughter of John Arndt Reiley. He was a minister who also died in 1878 of yellow fever along with some of her siblings.A History of Louisiana Volume 2 pages 291-292, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925 via
She graduated from the State Normal School in Trenton, New Jersey in 1878 "with the highest standing of any graduate of the institution up to that time." She had poems published in the New York prior to her death and after her death her teacher and friend Miss Mathews published a 276 page volume of her poems in 1879.
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