Undaunted Spirit: The Life and Times of Joseph T Reilly by Lucille Quinlan

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with all external stickers removed. Protective plastic covering. Stamps, bookplate and writing on preliminary pages. Stamps on foredges. Includes folded family tree.

A biography of pioneer business and newspaper man Joseph Thomas Reilly (1836-1915).

Joseph with his parents and siblings, arrived from Ireland in Fremantle in 1851. In 1855, He married Mary Lucille Burrows, a Western Australian-born dressmaker and schoolmistress.

With merchant G F Stone, Reilly established the Colony's first building society - the Perth Building Society.

Reilly was also the editor of the Western Australian Catholic Record for five years. He and his family later established the Northam Advertiser. He successfully published the newspaper for many years before selling it to Hal Colebatch.

Written by his grand-daughter.