Henry Giles    

HENRY GILES, farmer and manager of a coal bank, post-office Mercer, was born August 4, 1836, in Franklin County, Penn., to James and Elizabeth (Parsons) Giles, natives of America, and of English and German extraction, respectively. The father died in Clarion County, Penn., and the mother in this county. His death occurred in 1844 and hers in 1876. They had seven children: Samuel, deceased; George, Sarah A., widow of David Carbaugh; Jackson, who went West in 1861 and died there; Elizabeth, married Joseph Platt; Catharine, married Joseph Call, and Henry. The last named was educated in the common schools and was brought up on a farm. He was for awhile employed by the Erie & West Middlesex Blast Furnace Company. He came to Mercer County in 1854, and was married in 1857 to Leah Rupert, daughter of Philip and sister of Reuben Rupert, whose sketches are to be found elsewhere. By his marriage he has had: Sarah M., married Albert Cribbs; Anna, married John Platt; James, deceased; William, married Mattie Hart; Ella, Emma, Edwin, Nettie and Laura. Mr. Giles settled on his farm of sixty-two acres in 1877, and farms it in connection with his management of the John T. Crill coal mine, which employment he took under William Houston in 1873. He believes in the doctrines of the Methodist Church and is a Republican.

History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania : its past and present : including its aboriginal history, its early settlement and development, a description of its historic and interesting localities, sketches of its boroughs, townships and villages, neighborhood and family histories, portraits and biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, statistics, etc. : also, a condensed history of Pennsylvania. Chicago, Ill.: Brown, Runk & Co., 1888.  Read this book on line - Free Trial  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com.