BIOGRAPHIES: George GALE, Jr., Galesville, Trempealeau Co., WI

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George Gale, Jr., a distinguished attorney of Galesville, was born in 
Elkhorn, Walworth County, Wisconsin, Sept. 14, 1845, son of George and 
Gertrude (Young) Gale.  He was taken to La Crosse as a small boy, and was 
but 12 years of age when his parents brought him to Galesville.  Here he 
attended the public schools, and in due time entered Gale College, from 
which he was graduated in June, 1866.  Then he studied law in his father's 
office.  In 1868 he was admitted to the bar of Wisconsin and Minnesota, and 
the following year moved with his mother, brother and sister to Winona, 
where he spent one year in the office of Judge Thomas Simpson.  In 1870 he 
and his brother, William, engaged in the practice of law at Winona, under 
the firm name of G. & W. Gale.  In 1880, the partnership was dissolved, and 
George Gale moved to Fairmont, Minn., where he continued his practice.  He 
subsequently practiced at Berlin, Wis., and later engaged in the lumber and 
supply business at Merrill, Wis.  Because of his wife's failing health, he 
returned to Trempealeau County in 1885, and moved onto the old Gale farm. In 
1894 he moved to Galesville Village, where he has since resided.  He devotes 
his time to the practice of his profession, and to looking after his farm 
and village holdings.  He is the justice of the peace for the village, has 
been city judge of Berlin, Wis., and was county attorney of Martin County, 
Minn.  His fraternal relations are with the Knights of Pythias, in the local 
lodge of which he was an officer for a number of years, and in the state 
lodge of which he has sat as a delegate.  Mr. Gale was married in 1874, to 
Myra Johnson, who was born in Elkhorn, Wis., daughter of D. R. and Katherine 
(Pike) Johnson, of old Huguenot stock, early settlers of Wisconsin, and 
natives of New York.  The father engaged in the furniture business in 
Elkhorn, Wis., and at Berlin, Wis., established a casket factory, which is 
now the Milwaukee Casket Co.  By this marriage Mr. Gale had two children, 
Mamie, who died at the age of eight years, and George, who died in infancy.  
Mr. Gale was married Dec. 31, 1903, to Mrs. Elizabeth (Glennie) Stewart, 
daughter of John and Elizabeth Glennie and widow of Duncan Stewart.  She was 
born in Scotland, came to America as a child, was married at Northbend, 
later moved to West Salem, and there lived for some years.  She has a 
daughter, Margaret.  Mr. and Mrs. Gale have two sons, George Glennie, born 
Feb. 14, 1905, and William John, born May 13, 1912.

--From the "History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin, 1917," pages 297 - 298.