BIO: Clark HILEMAN, 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.
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340	HISTORY OF CLEARFIELD COUNTY

  CLARK HILEMAN, one of the substantial business men of Madera, Pa., who is 
largely interested in the lumber industry in Clearfield County, was born in 
Indiana County, Pa., September 17, 1856, and is a son of William and 
Elizabeth (Ruffner) Hileman.
  William Hileman was a son of John and Elizabeth Hileman.  His business 
interests throughout life were connected with lumbering.  He married 
Elizabeth Ruffner, a daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Ruffner, and the 
following children were born to them:  Lorenza, who married Oliver Lewis; 
Ellen, who married Benjamin Tonkin; Joseph S., who is deceased; Jane, who is 
the wife of Robert Smith; Clark; James S.; Charlotte, who is deceased, was 
the wife of James Kethcarth; William S.; A. C.; Scott; Isabel, who is the 
wife of Russell Eaton; and Liberty, who is the wife of William Ruther.
  Clark Hileman obtained his education in the district schools which he 
attended through the winter sessions until he was eighteen years of age, 
after which he went to lumbering and worked in the woods until 1887.  He then 
embarked in the hotel business at Madera in which he continued for twenty-one 
and one-half years, disposing of his interests in that line in August, 1908.  
Since then he was given the main part of his attention to the lumber 
industry, owning a saw mill and lumber yards, and he also owns other property 
at Madera and additionally is a stockholder in the Madera Water Works and a 
director of the Madera National Bank.
  On December 18, 1890, Mr. Hileman was married to Miss Minerva Grove, a 
daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Johnston) Grove, and a granddaughter of 
Andrew and Rebecca Grove and of William and Rebecca Johnston.  The parents of 
Mrs. Hileman are residents of Huntingdon County.  They are members of the 
Lutheran church.  Mrs. Hileman is the fourth born child of her parents, the 
others being:  Martha, who is the wife of James McElroy; Mary Alice, who is 
the wife of Jacob Smith; Elmira, who is the wife of Jeremiah Kyles; Laura, 
who is the wife of Samuel Smith; Maggie, who is the wife of William Blythe; 
Martin Luther; Ida, who is the wife of Harry Green; Andrew Harvey; Dora E., 
who is the wife of Clarence Snare; Bessie Rebecca, who is the wife of Bert 
McCall; Minnie, who is the widow of David Blythe; Lydia, who is the wife of 
John Worth; Henry Ellsworth, and William Oscar.  Mr. and Mrs. Hileman have no 
children of their own but they reared a little girl, Bertha May, born May 8, 
1891, from infancy to young womanhood, and she is now the wife of Albert 
King.  Mr. And Mrs. King have one son, Harold Albert, who was born February 
14, 1910.  Mr. And Mrs. Hileman attend the Presbyterian church.  In politics 
he is a Republican, as was his father, and for four years he served in the 
office of township supervisor.