Biographies:  George Clinton TEALL, Eau Claire, Eau Claire Co., WI 

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George Clinton Teall was born in Seneca county, New York, May 20, 1840, 
and at the age of twelve removed with his parents to Geneva, N. Y., where 
he was principally educated.  At the age of eighteen he entered Hobart 
College, in which he was a member of the class of 1862.  His father, 
G. C. P. Teall, was a son of Nathan Teall, whose father was one of three 
political fugitives from the oppression of Switzerland, who settled in 
Connecticut about 1730.  His grandfather, Nathan Teall, was a soldier in 
the Revolutionary War under General Knox.  In 1792 this grandfather settled 
in Newtown, N. Y., which was afterward named Elmira.  On the side of his 
father's mother the ancestors were among the Pilgrim Fathers who landed 
from the "Mayflower" at Plymouth in 1620, and her father was a colonel in 
the Revolutionary War.  Mr. Teall studied law at Rochester, N. Y., in 
1862-3-4 in the office of Hon. Theron R. Strong and Hon. Alfred G. Mudge, 
and also attended a course of lectures in the winter of 1863-4 at Rochester.  
In February, 1866, he came to Eau Claire with his family, and in April, 
1867, was elected justice of the peace, and in January, 1868, was appointed 
county judge by Governor Fairchild.  In the spring of 1869 he was elected 
his own successor and administered that office until January, 1874.  He was 
from 1866 for several years interested in the mercantile firm of George C. 
Teall & Co., and from 1868 to 1873 was one of the firm of William A. Teall & 
Co., general insurance agents.  He was admitted to the bar in Wisconsin at 
Milwaukee in January, 1872, and soon afterward to the supreme court and the 
United States courts at Madison.  In 1873 he formed a partnership with 
Alexander Meggett and was a member of that law firm until the spring of 
1881, when the firm was dissolved.  In December, 1880, he was again appointed 
county judge by Governor Smith, and in 1881 was re-elected without opposition 
for the term ending January, 1886.

--Taken from "The History of Eau Claire County, 1914, Past & Present",
page 281.