Lacrosse-Crawford County WI Archives Biographies.....Gale, Joseph May 1836 - 
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JOSEPH GALE, carpenter and millwright, is a native of St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., 
born in May, 1836; son of Joseph Gale, Sr.; came West in 1858 and settled in 
Dubuque, Iowa. He enlisted in 1862, in the 31st Wis. V. I., Company D, and was 
in the service three years, and Sergeant of his company the last two years of 
the time. They were in the 20th Army Corps till the battle of Atlanta, and 
were then transferred to the 14th Army Corps, and went with Sherman to the 
sea. He has resided in La Crosse most of the time since he left the army. He 
was married in 1862, in Prairie du Chien, Wis., to Mary Schoenberger, who was 
a native of Hesse, Germany, and came to the United States with her parents in 
1856. In addition to his other business, he is keeping a restaurant and 
confectionery store, corner of North Third and St. Andrew streets.

Additional Comments:
From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 754.

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