BIOS: George A. PILE, Boswell, Somerset County, PA

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History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania; Bedford County by E. 
Howard Blackburn; Somerset County by William H. Welfley; v.3, Pub. The Lewis 
Publishing Company, New York/Chicago 1906, pg. 286

George A. PILE.

George A. Pile, of Boswell, was born October 21, 1839, in Jenner township, and 
is a son of Abraham Pile, who passed his life as a farmer in his native county 
of Somerset.  He was a Republican in politics.  Abraham Pile married Mary 
Friedline, and their children were: John, deceased; Lewis, deceased; and George 
A., of whom later.
George A. Pile, son of Abraham and Mary (Friedline) Pile, received his education 
in the schools of his native county, and on September 3, 1861, enlisted for a 
term of three years in Company C, Fifty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, and after serving his time re-enlisted, in 1864, in Company H, of 
the same regiment, then known as the Fifity-fourth.  He served until the close 
of the war, being honorably discharged June 5, 1865.  After his return home he 
was, until 1892, engaged in farming in Jenner township, and was then for one 
year the proprietor of a hotel at Jenner.  At the end of that time he again 
became a farmer, remaining so until 1902 when he built a hotel in Boswell to 
which he gave the name of the Central Hotel and of which he became the 
proprietor.  In November, 1905, he sold his hotel and retired from active 
business.  He has filled the offices of councilman and street commissioner and 
has also served as assessor and judge of election.  He is a member of the G.A.R. 
He has been a life-long Republican.
Mr. Pile married, December 28, 1865, Phoebe J., daughter of Philip and Elizabeth 
(Hay) Coleman, and their children are: Harry, Emma, Philip, Edgar, Maggie, 
Lizzie, Mary and Myrtle.