A. C. Kile
Mr. Kile, the member from Richland County, was born in County Down, Ireland, January 7, 1810, and emigrated to the United States in 1817, settling in Beaver County -- now Lawrence County -- Pennsylvania, which place he left in January, 1834, and came to Ohio, locating in Richland County, Worthington Township. He received a common school education. Mr. Kile is a carpenter and joiner, and a farmer. He was elected Constable in 1840, and served in that position for four years, after which he assessed his township for three years. In 1851 he was elected Justice of the Peace, in which office he has done service for fifteen years. this is certainly faithful endurance in public office. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1869, and re-elected in 1871. He was a member of important Standing House Committees in the Fifty-ninth General Assembly, and is a member of several committees of the Sixtieth General Assembly. He is, and always has been, a Democrat, having cast his first vote for General Jackson for President. He was married in 1841 to Miss Phipps -- has had five children, four of whom are still living. Mr. Kile is now over sixty years old, and yet he has the appearance of a man of forty-five. Is honest, unassuming and practical, and gentlemanly in his bearing toward men of both parties, and to all people.
From Biographical Sketches of The State Officers, and of The Members of the Sixtieth General Assembly of the State of Ohio, W. Darwin Crabb, Columbus, 1872