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, pages 427 & 428.
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  ANTHONY HILE, who is assistant cashier of the Curwensville National Bank, at 
Curwensville, Pa., and also treasurer of the borough, was born in what is now 
Lumber City, Clearfield county, Pa., in 1864, and is a son of James H. and Mary 
H. (Henry) Hile.
  James H. Hile was born in August, 1840, in a part of Penn township which has 
become incorporated with Lumber City, Clearfield county, Pa., a son of Anthony 
and Emily (Bloom) Hile, and a grandson of Henry and Mary (Johnson) Hile.  James 
H. Hile attended school in Penn township as opportunity offered in his youth 
and spent a number of years working as a stone mason and in making square 
timber and also as a clerk in a store at Lumber City.  For the last twenty-five 
years of his active life his business was that of scaling logs and was so 
engaged in Clearfield and Jefferson counties, Pa., and also in West Virginia.  
This business requires the accuracy and a mathematical sureness of vision and 
the workers in this field, therefore, are not as numerous as in many others.  
James H. Hile settled at Lumber City after his marriage, where he was elected a 
justice of the peace, and served one term as auditor of Clearfield county, on 
the Democratic ticket.  He is interested in the Curwensville National Bank.  In 
1861 he was married to Miss Mary H. Henry, a daughter of Thomas and Margaret 
(Moore) Henry, residents then of Ferguson township, Clearfield county.  Two 
children were born to this marriage:  Anthony and Gurney.  The latter married 
Edith Hepfer, a daughter of Simon Hepfer, of Fulton county, Pa., and they have 
two children - Katherine and Hubert.
  Anthony Hile was educated in the public schools and Lumber City Academy, 
after which he became a clerk in a store at that place, and at Kerrmoor, 
covering a period of five years.  In 1886 Mr. Hile came to Curwensville as 
bookkeeper in the Curwensville Bank.  At the organization of the Curwensville 
National Bank in 1904 he was made assistant cashier.  He is financially 
interested in this bank and also owns a farm of 100 acres which lies in the 
north end of Ferguson township, Clearfield county, and was once the homestead 
of his maternal grandfather.  This property he has improved and at present is 
under the management of Mr. Hile's brother.
  On October 22, 1890, Mr. Hile was married to Miss Margaret E. Mead, a 
daughter of Henry and Lydia Mead, of Lawrence township.  Mrs. Hile died in 
1897, survived by a daughter, Margaret, who attends the public schools.  The 
first child, Anthony, who was born in 1894, died in 1895.  Mrs. Hile was a 
member of the Presbyterian church.  Her burial was in Oak Hill Cemetery.  Mr. 
Hile is an elder in the Presbyterian church, and has been its treasurer since 
1887.  He is identified with Noble Lodge, F. & A. M., with Bethesda Lodge, I. 
O. O. F., at Curwensville, and also with Susquehanna Grange.