Ransom Henry Gile

Ransom Henry Gile was an early settler in Scandia, Kansas.

Ransom Henry Gile and one of his grandsons.

Gile was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on 3 June, 1836 and moved to Ohio with his parents at age four,[1] although some records say he was born in Ohio on June 3, 1836.[2] At age nineteen, he went to Iowa to work for the Ohio Stage Line Company.

In April 1862, Gile enlisted as a corporal [3] in the Twenty-first Iowa Infantry and served until July 1864 when he re-enlisted and served in the First Iowa Battery. After being wounded in several Civil War battles, he was discharged in November 1865.[1]

Gile returned to Iowa until 1873, when he moved to Kansas and took a homestead of eighty acres in Republic County. Gile worked the land, planting orchards and establishing a quarry for the area on his property.[1]

Gile was married twice. His first wife Adaline Amelia Ingalls died less than a year after they were married in 1861. Four years later, he married Sarah Ann Mahaffey and they remained in Iowa until her death.[4]

Gile died on March 7, 1916, in Scandia.[5]

References
  1. Cutler, William (1883). "REPUBLIC COUNTY, Part 6: Scandia". History of the State of Kansas. Chicago, Illinois: A. T. Andreas. Archived from the original on September 4, 2003. Retrieved April 3, 2012.
  2. "Ransom Henry Gile". Find-a-Grave. Retrieved April 3, 2012.
  3. Hart, Irving (1914). History of Butler County, Iowa: a record of settlement. Vol. 1. Chicago, Illinois: S. J. Clarke. p. 179. Retrieved April 3, 2012.
  4. Burleigh, Charles (1887). The genealogy and history of the Guild, Guile and Gile family. Portland, Maine: B. Thurston & Co. p. 317. Retrieved April 3, 2012. ransom henry gile.
  5. "Ransom Henry Gile". Ancestry.com. Retrieved March 3, 2012.
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