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If you will Google "History of Butler County" you will find a chapter on Clearfield.
This was taken from it--
John COYL and his wife, Elizabeth (HANLAN), came to America in 1791, and to Clearfield Township in 1800, and settled on the farm known as the WICK farm, at present owned by Charles DUFFY and others, consisting of a 400-acre tract. He disposed of a large tract of land given him by a Mr. BELL for one horse and a keg of whisky. He made this trade so as to complete a team, he already possessing one horse. Coylesville took its name from him. He was a weaver by trade, and took linen cloth woven by himself to "Mason's Works," in Fayette County, and exchanged it for salt and iron, which he packed home. In order to protect his sheep and hogs from the ravages of the wolves and bears then to be found in great numbers, they were securely penned up each night. His son John, Jr., moved to Donegal Township in 1851, his death occurring in 1866. His wife, Margaret (DAUGHERTY), aged eighty-two years, lives on the old place with her son W. F.
Also it shows in School in 1807 Thomas Coyle and William Coyle.
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