Mary Trimble Reiley (May 15 or May 17, 1858 – October 16, 1878) was an American poet.
[1][2][3][4] Her poems included one about the slaughter of John Gair.
[5] He was a minister who also died in 1878 of yellow fever[6][7] along with some of her siblings.
[5] 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.
"[citation needed] 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.