Anthony Hile and Margaret Eleanor "Maggie" Mead

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Husband Anthony Hile ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 12 Jun 1864 - Lumber City, Clearfield Co, PA 3
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         Father: James Harvey Hile (1840-1927) 3 4 5
         Mother: Mary Hannah Henry (      -      ) 1 3 5

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       Marriage: 22 Oct 1890 - Lawrence Twp, Clearfield Co, PA 3 6

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Wife Margaret Eleanor "Maggie" Mead ^{1 3 6}

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           Born: 6 Oct 1864 3
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           Died: 15 Jun 1897 3
         Buried:  - Oak Hill Cemetery, Curwensville, Clearfield Co, PA

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         Father: Henry Irwin Mead (      -      ) 3 7
         Mother: Lydia Jane Alexander (      -      ) 3 8

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Children

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1 M Anthony Hile ^{3 6}

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           Born: 16 Jun 1894 3
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           Died: 11 Sep 1895 1 3
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 F Margaret Hile ^{3 6}

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           Born: 6 Jun 1897 3
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General Notes: Husband - Anthony Hile

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In the direct paternal line, he could trace his ancestry to Christian Hile (Heyl) and his wife Catrina, who came from Germany in 1753 and settled in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. In other lines, he is a descendant of George Peirce (Pearce) and his wife, Ann Gainer, who came from Gloucestershire, England, in 1684; from Godwin Walter, who came from the vicinity of London in 1685 and married, later, Elizabeth Sanghurst; and from John Passmore and his wife, Mary Buxcey, who came from Berkshire, England, in 1713-14. All were Quakers and pioneers of Chester County, Pennsylvania. Mr. Hile also descends from John George Mettler, who came from Holland or Germany in 1734 and from Peter Bloom (Blum) and his wife, Eve Ann Wagner, who came from Germany in 1752, both families settling in Hunterdon County, New Jersey; from Joseph Patterson, an Ulsterman, who settled in the colonies; and from John Henry and his wife, Elizabeth McBride, who came from County Down, Ireland, about 1798.

He 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 he 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 was financially interested in the bank and also owned a farm of 100 acres which lay in the north end of Ferguson township, Clearfield County, and was once the homestead of his maternal grandfather. This property he improved and kept under the management of his brother.
He was an elder in the Presbyterian church, and was its treasurer beginning in 1887. He was identified with Noble Lodge, F. & A. M., with Bethesda Lodge, I. O. O. F., at Curwensville, and also with Susquehanna Grange.

He was educated in the public schools near his boyhood home and at a small academy. He began his active career in 1881 as a store clerk and continued this connection until 1886, when he first entered the service of the Curwensville Bank, later succeeded by the Curwensville National Bank. He devoted the remainder of his career to banking, all of it spent with the institution whose staff he joined at that time. Beginning as bookkeeper, Mr. Hile served a thorough apprenticeship in banking practice and won successive promotions on the basis of his record and experience. In 1908 he became cashier and in 1932 assumed the presidency of the bank. He was a member of the board of directors beginning in 1912.
Mr. Hile was active in the civic life of Curwensville and with his election as treasurer in 1916 brought to the borough government his expert financial knowledge, as well as his familiarity with local needs and problems. He was a director of the Curwensville Cemetery Company, having served from 1931; a member of Susquehanna Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution; Noble Lodge, No. 480, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he was Past Master; Bethesda Lodge, No. 821, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he was Past Noble Grand; and Susquehanna Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. He was interested in genealogy for many years and was a member both of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania and of the Institute of American Genealogy, of Chicago. By virtue of his long banking service he was also elected to membership in the Fifty Year Club of the Pennsylvania Bankers Association. Mr. Hile was a Presbyterian in religious faith, and served as an elder of the Curwensville Presbyterian Church beginning in January, 1896, and as treasurer from 1887 to 1933. In politics he was a Democrat.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 597.

2 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 402, 427.

3 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 395.

4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 597, 942, 1623.

5 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 427.

6 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 428.

7 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 597, 820.

8 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 820.