. History of Columbia County, New York. With illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . ins Warner, now Mrs. Henry J. Whiting, ofCanaan. The former is unmarried, and resides on the town, Columbia Co., and reared a family of four children,of whom Lorenzo was the youngest. Asa Gile died inFebruary, 1837, and his wife, Nancy Gile, in 1860, havingsurvived him twenty-three years. The early lite of Lorenzo was spent on a farm in hisnative town, where he was a student at home, and attendedthe district school, to which, in early boyhood, he walkedfive miles, an
. History of Columbia County, New York. With illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . ins Warner, now Mrs. Henry J. Whiting, ofCanaan. The former is unmarried, and resides on the town, Columbia Co., and reared a family of four children,of whom Lorenzo was the youngest. Asa Gile died inFebruary, 1837, and his wife, Nancy Gile, in 1860, havingsurvived him twenty-three years. The early lite of Lorenzo was spent on a farm in hisnative town, where he was a student at home, and attendedthe district school, to which, in early boyhood, he walkedfive miles, and returned the same distance each day. Hewas a diligent and thorough student. In 1834 he com-menced the study of medicine with Henry D. Wright,, of New Lebanon, and graduated at the BerkshireMedical College, of Pittsfield, Mass., in December, first commenced practice in Wayne Co., N. Y., re-maining part of a year, when he settled as a physician inCanaan, Columbia Co., N. Y., where he continued in suc-cessful practice for over thirty years, and was largelyidentified with the public interests of the locality. lie. LORENZO GILE, old homestead of her father, at Canaan Centre. She wasborn where her grandfather originally settled in this town,on the first of September, 1803. In 1814 her father builtthe present residence and moved his family into it, whereMiss Warner has resided ever since. LORENZO GILE, ,was born May 20, 1814, in Stephentown, Rensselaer Co.,N. Y. He is of Scotch-Irish descent. His father, Asa Gile,was born in , and was a Revolutionary soldierUnder General Washington. He entered the army at theage of fifteen. His discharge from the service, signed byGeneral Washington at his headquarters, bears date June9, 1783, for six years faithful service in the First Massa-chusetts Regiment. He married Nancy Monroe, of Spencer- has been through life a man of strictly temperate habitsand of a vigorous Well read in his profession,an
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