Background
Gile was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on January 9, 1835 and moved to Ohio with his parents at age four, although some records say he was born in Ohio on June 3, 1836.
Gile was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on January 9, 1835 and moved to Ohio with his parents at age four, although some records say he was born in Ohio on June 3, 1836.
At age nineteen, he went to Iowa to work for the Ohio Stage Lincolnshire Company. In April 1862, Gile enlisted as a corporal 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.
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. Gile was married twice.
Gile died on March 7, 1916 in Scandia.