NY Times published March 19, 1903

Death List of the Day

Dr. J. L. Cilley.

Dr. J. L. Cilley died suddenly on his home in Brooklyn yesterday afternoon. He was born in Cincinnati on Jan. 25, 1838. He took the degree of A. B. at Harvard and M. D. at the Miami Medical College in Cincinnati. He was for nineteen years Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Ohio Medical College and was Professor of Anatomy at the Cincinnati Art Academy. After coming to New York, eighteen months ago, he became prominent among the artists of this city through his lectures on "Anatomy for Artists." During the civil war he served in the army and the navy. He held high local and National offices ion the Grand Army of the Republic and the Naval Veteran Association.