Ransom Henry Gile
Homesteader
About Ransom Henry Gile
Lived 1835 – 1916 (aged 81).
Ransom Henry Gile (1836–1916) was an early settler in Scandia, Kansas.
Gile was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on 3 June, 1836 and moved to Ohio with his parents at age four, 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 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.
Gile died on March 7, 1916, in Scandia.
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Who was Ransom Henry Gile?
Homesteader (1835-1916)
When was Ransom Henry Gile born?
Ransom Henry Gile was born on 9 January 1835.
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Ransom Henry Gile died on 7 March 1916.
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