BIO: Anthony HILE, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 402.
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  ANTHONY HILE, deceased, whose useful life was prolonged into advanced age, 
was long a leading citizen of Lumber City, Pa., and was one of the men of ample 
fortune then living in Clearfield county.  He was born in Northumberland 
county, Pa., in 1815, and died in Clearfield county in 1904.  His parents were 
Henry and Mary (Johnson) Hile.
  Henry Hile was born in New Jersey but he married in Northumberland county, 
Pa., and all of his children were born there, Anthony being nineteen years of 
age when the family came to Penn township, Clearfield county.  At that time 
this region was a wilderness and was covered with a timber growth that became 
the foundation of many a fortune.  Lumber City was appropriately named, for 
lumbering was the main industry and a part of the town was built on a section 
of the Hile farm.
  Anthony Hile followed farming and lumbering for a number of years.  His 
qualifications for office were recognized by his fellow citizens and he served 
carefully and honestly in almost all of the township offices, having been 
school director, constable, supervisor, assessor, collector and supervisor of 
the poor.  He was a member of the Baptist church.  In 1839 Anthony Hile married 
Miss Emily Bloom, a daughter of James and Mary (Passmore) Bloom, early 
residents of Pike township, and they had the following children born to them, 
some of whom have passed away but have left descendants:  James H., D. W., John 
N., Eli B., Martha J., Lewis B., Fanny, Ada M., William B., Mary E. and Amanda 
L.  Anthony Hile, who perpetuates the name of his grandfather, is the eldest 
son of James H. Hile, and is assistant cashier of the Curwensville National 
Bank at Curwensville, Pa.