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378 'J^HE MAINE BUGLE.
foremost spirits in the famous Bowdoin College expedition to
Labrador, and his published account thereof indicated something
of the high literary qualities of the young man. A
bicycle tour over a portion of Europe made two years later
afforded another opportunity to exhibit his taste as a writer.
There is every reason to believe that had young Cilley lived he
would have won high places in the fields of literature.
From Bowdoin, Cilley took the three years' course at the
Harvard Law School in two years' time, and then began his work
as a lawyer with the leading law firm of Butler, Stillman & Hub-
bard, New York. He instantly commanded attention by the
thoroughness ot his methods, his intense devotion to the matter
in hand and a quick grasp of all its salient features. In his new
home in Brooklyn he made friends as usual and was a marked
man. Always keenly interested in military affairs, he became
a member of Co. I, Twenty-third New York National Guards.
Last year he won a gold medal as a sharpshooter.
Important law cases were early entrusted to him, and it was
while looking after an admiralty case of considerable magnitude
at Savannah, Ga., last June, that he fell sick. Returning to
Brooklyn he underwent a hospital operation for appendicitis,
and in July returned to his Rockland home for recuperation.
He had always been a boy and man of extraordinary good
health and powerful physique ; and
it was in an over-estimation
of strength that he started to resume his work in September.
Reaching Boston he fell sick of typhoid fever, and five weeks
later he died, at the home of his cousin, George E. Cilley, Octo-
ber nineteenth.
Gen. Cilley proceeded to Boston and was with his son during
his sickness. Miss Fanny Lazell was summoned at his son's
early request from her present home in Saxton's River, Vt., and
her devotion was ceaseless through the closing weeks. But
there was no help for the sufferer.
The funeral was held in the First Baptist church, Rockland, of
which young Cilley was an honored member. The choir of the
church sang two selections. The house was filled with mourning