Misc. Notes
Anthony Hile followed farming and lumbering* for a number of years. His qualifications for office were recognized [b]y 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.
Hile’s 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.
Anthony was nineteen years old when his father's 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.
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Anthony Hile held the original papers of the settlement of the estate of John Peter Bloom (1709-1793).
At the polls. Mr. Hile votes the straight Democratic ticket, and he has served his fellow-citizens in a number of official positions, including those of overseer of the poor, collector, assessor, supervisor, constable for three or four terms and school director for nine years. In religious belief he is a Baptist, while his wife and a number of his children hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
He is of
prominet and representative citizens of Lumber City, and has been actively identified with all measures calculated to promote the moral, educational and material welfare of the community. At this writing [1898] he is eighty-three years of age.
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Anthony lived on his father’s homestead. His brother John had a farm next to the homestead.
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An Anthony Hile is identified as one of the officers, vice president, treasurer and a director, of the Curwensville Cemetery Company (Oak Hill Cemetery), in 1946. [A descendant of this Anthony Hile?]
672This source indicates Anthony was born 11-23-1815.
673This source indicates Anthony’s place of birth as Lumber City, and his age at death as 89 yrs.
669*The lumber business was the predominant business in Clearfield County from 1840-1890. It was estimated that over 12-billion board feet of lumber was cut during that time. In addition, many tall and straight pine trees were cut for use as spars or ship masts.
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