Kile, William

Born: 1809-09-01 Ohio

Died: 1877-10-04 Paris, Illinois

Flourished: Paris, Illinois

William Kile was a physician, merchant, farmer, and stock dealer. Born in Fayette County, Ohio, Kile was practicing medicine in Clinton, Indiana, in 1850, and owned real property valued at $9,000. He moved from Clinton to Edgar County, Illinois, in 1853. Kile partnered with William P. Dole, with whom he operated a dry goods, grain dealing, and pork packing establishment in Paris, Illinois, for many years. After the dissolution of that partnership Kile devoted himself to agricultural pursuits and stock dealing. He was an early member of the Edgar County Agricultural Society, serving as a director and the inaugural treasurer of society in 1854 and as president in 1861. In 1860, he was working as a merchant and owned real property valued at $27,000 and had a personal estate of $14,000. He was a Presbyterian.

Kile married three times. In November 1841, he married Charity Webster, with whom he had three children. Charity Webster Kile died in 1851. His second wife was the widow of A. Jackson. In March 1859, he married Mary Hoggatt, with whom he had three children.

U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Clinton, Vermillion County, IN, 7; The History of Edgar County, Illinois (Chicago: Wm. Le Baron Jr., 1879), 284, 285, 569, 581, 607; James Herbert Kelley, ed., The Alumni Record of the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois, 1913), 784; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Paris, Edgar County, IL, 12; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Edgar County, 4 November 1841, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; Indiana, U.S., Marriage Index, 1800-1941 3 March 1859, Vigo County (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2005); Gravestone, William and Charity Kile, Edgar Cemetery, Paris, IL.