Anthony Hile was educated in the public schools and Lumber City Academy, after which he became a clerk in a store at that place, and at Kermioor, covering a period of five years.

In 1886 Mr. Hile came to Curwensville as bookkeeper in the Curwensville Bank. At the organization of the Curwensville National Bank [Originally organized by John Patton (1823) in 1864] in 1904 he was made assistant cashier. He is financially interested in this bank and also owns a farm of 100 acres which lies in the north end of Ferguson township, Clearfield county, and was once the homestead of his maternal grandfather. This property he has improved and at present is under the management of Mr. Hile’s brother.

On October 22, 1890, Mr. Hile was married to Miss Margaret E. Mead, a daughter of Henry and Lydia Mead, of Lawrence township. Mrs. Hile died in 1897, survived by a daughter, Margaret, who attends the public schools. The first child, Anthony, who was born in 1894, died in 1895. Mrs. Hile was a member of the Presbyterian church. Her burial was in Oak Hill Cemetery. Mr. Hile is an elder in the Presbyterian church, and has been its treasurer since 1887. He is identified with Noble Lodge, F. & A. M., with Bethesda Lodge, I. O. O. F., at Curwensville, and also with Susquehanna Grange.

Hile was Treasurer of the borough of Curwensville, Clearfield, PA in 1911.
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Anthony Hile is seen in a photo taken around 1895 inside the Curwensville National Bank along with others including C. S. Russell at this source. The caption states the bank was fist organized in 1864 and existed until 1904 when it became the Curwensville National Bank. In 1945, it merged with Curwensville State Bank, which later was known as CSB. CSB was recently [2007] sold to Northwest Savings Bank, ending the tradition of a hometown bank.1780
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On June 9, 1916, a deliberate and planned attempt to murder and rob was made on the Curwensville National Bank by a masked man carrying revolvers in each hand, one of which he fired into the lower jaw of Harris M. Hoover (Teller) and this injury caused much misery to him since and although the assailant almost immediately plead guilty to the charge of intent to rob and murder, the outcome of his trial was a sentence of 2 to 5 years in the Western Penitentiary with proviso regarding his sanity.

With Mr. Hoover in the office, part of the Bank was Anthony Hile, Cashier. In spite of the wound, both men foiled any further action by the assailant who ran to the street. Deputy Sheriff Chaplin happened to be in town, and with Earl Clark in the lead of chase, caught and arrested him at the Elk Tannery

The Curwensville National Bank had a continuous career under that name until July, 1945, forty-one years of service to the community. The panic of 1929 was a disaster. The bank was one of its victims. It was in the hands of a receiver from December 1, 1931 for three months. The shareholders lost all but the depositors were saved. Through the strenous efforts of the officers and directors, the bank resumed on March 1, 1932 and the receiver was discharged. President, Anthony Hile; Vice President, Chas. A. Cross; Cashier, George L. Benner. The Charter was not surrendered. It was predicted that it would not last six months but it continued twenty-six times six months; when by vote of the shareholders, the bank was voluntarily liquidated July 14, 1945 and merged with the Curwensville State Bank.853
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An Anthony Hile is listed as a Past Master of the Noble Lodge No. 480, F. & A.M [Free and Accepted Masons] of Curwensville in 1892 and still alive in 1949.886

Anthony Hile [in 1949] is pictured as the Curwensville Borough Treasurer (Since 1908).128
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THEN AND NOW
When Grandma was a little girl
And Beauty they did seek,
The most alluring feature was The dimple in her cheek.
But times have changed since we were young,
And now for all to see,
My lady's most entrancing charm,
Is a dimple on her knee.
And Grandma smoked a clay pipe!

~~ Anthony Hile866

[Same Anthony Hile?]