BIO: C. A. 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 590 & 591.
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  C. A. HILE, owner and proprietor of the Lumber City Supply Company, at Lumber 
City, Pa., is a leading merchant and one of the representative business men of 
this place.  He was born at Lumber City, Clearfield county, Pa., September 20, 
1879, and is a son of Allen W. and a grandson of Lorenzo D. Hile, an old 
settler.
  Allen W. Hile was born also at Lumber City, and spent his life in Clearfield 
county.  He was a plasterer by trade and became a contractor in this line and 
during his active years he did a large business in this section.  He was a very 
prominent Odd Fellow and for twenty-five years rented quarters to the fraternity 
at Lumber City.  In politics he was a Republican and at times he filled local 
offices.  He married Ida V. Straw, a daughter of George Straw, of Ferguson 
township, and six children were born to them, namely:  C. A.; Katherine, who is 
the wife of William Hipwell; George, who is a resident of Lumber City; 
Elizabeth, who is a teacher at Lumber City; Alice, who is the wife of Joseph 
Galbraith of Iowa; and Allen, who lives in Franklin county, Pa.  The father of 
the above family died at Lumber City at the early age of thirty-five years but 
the mother survives.
  C. A. Hile was afforded educational opportunities and attended the public 
schools of Lumber City and the summer sessions of Normal School at Lumber City 
and Kerrmore, after which he learned the plastering trade and worked at the same 
for about eight years.  He then entered the employ of the Harbison-Walker 
Company as a clerk and in 1908 came to Lumber City as manager of the Lumber City 
Supply Company and subsequently bought the entire business and has continued the 
same under the old name.  He draws trade from miles around Lumber City and, in 
addition to a full stock in other lines of merchandise, carries a full line of 
ladies' and gents' furnishings.
  In June, 1902, Mr. Hile was married to Miss Lola Kirk, who was born at Lumber 
City, a daughter of Samuel Kirk, and died here June 1, 1907, survived by three 
children:  Allen Kirk, Lola M. and Charles Herbert.  Mr. Hile is a member of the 
Odd Fellows at Lumber City and of the Moose at Curwensville.