BIO: Constantine T. GALE, Beaver County, PA
  
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  BOOK OF BIOGRAPHIES.  This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches 
  of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania.  Buffalo, N.Y., 
  Chicago, Ill.: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899, pp. 235-237.
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  DR. CONSTANTINE T. GALE. The well known physician and surgeon whose name
  heads this sketch, and whose portrait we present on the opposite page, has
  one of the largest practices in Beaver county, and his ability as a physician
  is undoubtedly of the highest. His patronage extends over New Brighton, his
  present home, and through Beaver county, and the counties adjoining, and he
  is held in high esteem by all who know him. Dr. Gale is a son of the late
  well known physician, Dr. George W. Gale, and was born at Newport, Washington
  county, Ohio, January 18, 1850. The paternal grandfather, George Gale, was
  born in Ireland and came to America prior to the year 1800. On the way over,
  he met on the ship a Miss McKernan, whom he afterward married. They located
  in Hampshire county, in what is now West Virginia, and followed farming,
  until they were well along in life, when they sold their property, and went
  to what is now Pleasant county, West Virginia, and, a few years later, moved
  to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, where they both died at the advanced age of
  eighty years. Their children were, as follows: Thomas;
  
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  James; McKernan; George; W., M. D.; Robert; John; Constantine; William;
  Bridget; Catherine; Ellen; Maria; and Theresa; all of whom grew to be men and
  women, and attained an old age. Three of the oldest sons served in the War of
  1812.
  
  George W. Gale, the father of Constantine T., was born in Hampshire county,
  West Virginia, and was educated in Cumberland, Maryland. He chose medicine as
  a profession, and was one of the most successful practitioners of the time. He
  was a self-made man in every respect, and won for himself a name which time
  cannot efface. He began his professional life in Tyler county, West Virginia,
  in 1831, and then located at Newport, Washington county, Ohio, and obtained a
  large practice on both sides of the Ohio River. His career as a physician
  started in the saddle-bag days, when there were but few roads to reach the
  pioneers' homes with wagons. Dr. Gale rode many miles on horseback, and in
  those days a physician had to take grain, provisions, and even timber, for
  services, as money was very scarce. Good physicians were not to be found
  within many miles of each other, therefore the Doctor was kept very busy.
  Being a lover of nature, he purchased a large farm, and spent many happy
  hours in having it improved, for he was a man of fine tastes and a
  progressive disposition, and in a short time, he had in his possession a very
  fine farming property.
  
  He died in September, 1871, aged eighty-one, but although he had given up his
  long rides several years previous to his death, he was called on at his home
  and office, to the very last days of his sickness. His name is known in every
  household in the vicinity of his former home, and his memory will ever be
  warmly cherished. He assisted four of his sons to become doctors. Dr. Gale
  married Catherine Wells, a daughter of Nicholas Wells, of Tyler county, West
  Va., and she died at the age of seventy. They were both faithful members of
  the Catholic church. Their children were: John W., M. D.; Mary; Alcinda B.;
  Rachel; Ellen; Nicholas W., a farmer; Veronica; Constantine T., the subject
  hereof; George T., M. D.; Samuel Hammett, D. D. S.; Adah L.; and C. Bernard,
  M. D.
  
  Dr. Constantine T. Gale, whose name heads this personal biography, attended
  the public schools of his native town, and also the St. Thomas Seminary, and
  began reading medicine with his father at the age of twenty. He then entered
  the Jefferson Medical School at Philadelphia in 1876, and graduated in 1878.
  He began practice at Parkersburg, West Va., and in 1880 went to New Brighton,
  where he has since lived. He was an entire stranger there, but it was not long
  until he had a most promising beginning, and his services were soon sought by
  many residents of New Brighton. He rapidly rose in the profession, and has
  proven himself to be a complete master of the science of medicine. His
  practice is a large and lucrative one, and he is greatly loved by all in the
  vicinity. The Doctor has a fine home at Eleventh street and Fifth avenue,
  where is, also, his office. This place was
  
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  formerly the residence of Dr. Simpson. Dr. Gale was united in wedlock with
  Lucy L. Stephenson, a daughter of Hon. James Stephenson, of Parkersburg, West
  Virginia. He has served several years on the staff of the Beaver County
  Hospital, is a member of the Beaver County Medical Society, State Medical
  Association, and American Medical Association. He is a stanch Democrat, but
  has never sought political distinction. He is also a member of the order of
  Elks, of Rochester, Pennsylvania.