Rupert O Neily (1876 - 1962)

Born 8 Feb 1876 in Williamston, Annapolis, Nova Scotia

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Died 3 Apr 1962 at age 86 in Portland, Maine, USA

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Rupert Neily

Musician 1876 - 1962

Rupert Neily was born in Paradise, Nova Scotia, Canada on February 8, 1876. He was the son of George Wesley Neily and Lucetta Turple Neily. A few months after his birth, he moved with his family to Lynn, Massachusetts where he graduated from Lynn High School in 1892. Neily studied piano in Lynn and later with Buonamicci, Th e Elder in Florence, Italy. He also studied organ with S.B. Whitney and Wallace Goodrich of Boston. He also studied voice in Boston, New York, Paris, and Florence. He married Anne McAdams in 1916. Neily became the supervisor of music for the Westerly, Rhode Island public schools, and also taught voice in Lynn and Boston and at Hoeling College in Virginia. He was a composer of both sacred and secular vocal music. Neily was the organist and choir director for Congregational churches in Biddeford and Sanford before he assumed the same duties at Portland’s Williston Congregational Church.

In 1929, when he became a charter member of the Torch Club of Western Maine, Neily was the director of the Maine Conservatory of Music where he was a vocal instructor. Neily was also the director of the Portland Women’s Choral Society, and director of voice and music at Portland’s Westbrook Junior College. He died in Portland on April 3, 1962 at age 86.

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1. ↑ Terison, M. Charter Members of The Torch Club of Western Maine Established September 30, 1929 Portland, Maine. October 6, 2004. Available at URL: http://www.jameslockman.com/torch/Anniversary%20booklet.pdf Accessed April 22, 2014.

• Nova Scotia Registration of Births, 1876, Book 1801, Page 200, Number 190.