Reflections on Lawrence Reilly

Reflections on Lawrence Reilly KARL MCCARTY CONTRIBUTOR Seventeen children were born to the Irish Catholic family of William (1879-1955) and Katherine “Kit” (Baumhardt) Reilly (1886-1969). It was the firstborn who was least talked about, but at certain points of the couple’s life he was the most pressing on their minds. Lawrence Reilly Lawrence was born in 1909, the first of the