This is a transcription of the Miss Mary Margaret Gile biography from New Hampshire Women: A Collection of Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Daughters and Residents of the Granite State, Who are Worthy Representatives of their Sex in the Various Walks and Conditions of Life, The New Hampshire Publishing Co., Concord, NH, 1895, page 69.
Mary Margaret Gile
MISS MARY MARGARET GILE was well born and happily endowed. Family traditions increased this inheritance, and her early life among the New Hampshire hills made it rich indeed. Her ancestors fought in the most noted battles of the Revolution. Her father, the late Alfred A. Gile, was a man of fine integrity, who held his children to strict account, both for their morals and their manners, while the quiet Christian influence of the mother supplemented that of the father. After a thorough training in the schools of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, Miss Gile entered upon her life work as preceptress of the Clarence Academy, Clarence, N. Y., where she was associated with her brother, Joseph Gile. She next became Preceptress of the Warsaw Academy, at Warsaw, N. Y., where she remained nine years. In each of these positions she displayed that skill which has brought her such signal success. After short terms at Cleveland, O., and Worcester, Mass., she began her work at East Orange, N. J., where she now resides with her youngest brother, Dr. Francis A. Gile. Many a successful man and woman owes much to Miss Gile for the mental and moral impetus received from her in the high school of this town. Here she closely identifies herself with her surroundings, being an active member of Christ church and its Sunday-school, also of the Daughters of the Revolution, the Woman’s Club of Orange, and the Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. Besides her articles for the newspapers and her essays, Miss Gile contributed an article entitled, “Individual Influence upon our Nation,” to the New Jersey scrapbook for the World’s Fair. Her paper on the History of Education, written for the school of Pedagogy of the University of the City of New York, received favorable comment from our best educators. She has recently graduated from this university, and may truly be considered one of the progressive women of our time. Her personality is quiet but strong; her life, noble, true, and effective.