From the book History of Walworth County Wisconsin, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, publ. 1912 - Pages 518 - 519
 
GEORGE GALE was son of Peter GALE, Jr., and Hannah TOTTENHAM.  His father's 
American ancestors were Peter6, Isaac5, 4, Abraham3, 2, Richard1.  His mother's 
were Nathaniel4, Elisha3, Eliah2, Henry1.  George GALE was born at Burlington, 
Vermont, November 30, 1816; had a fair education, thanks to early tendencies to 
study; read law at Waterbury, and was admitted to the bar in 1841, and then set 
out for Elkhorn.  He at once took an active interest in all movements in 
furtherance of morals, education, and community development.  He founded a 
newspaper at Elkhorn and was for a year its editor.  His Form Book, published 
in 1846, went to revised editions in 1848, 1850 and 1856.  In 1847 he was 
member of the committee on judiciary in the second constitutional convention.  
In 1850 he was state senator, chosen over General BOYD and Jeduthun SPOONER  In 
1851 he went to La Crosse county, was county judge for a term for four years, 
and was circuit judge 1857-63.  In 1853 he bought land on which he laid out the 
village of Galesville, and moved for the organization of Trempealeau county.  
He gave ten thousand dollars toward establishing a "university" at his new 
village.  One of the later labors was the compilation of a genealogy of the 
descendants of Richard GALE and wife Mary, of Watertown, Massachusetts, in 
1640; and of Edmund GALE, of Boston.  He died April 18, 1868, at Galesville.  
He had married at Elkhorn December 5, 1844, Gertrude, daughter of Capt. George 
YOUNG and Ann WALDRON - the latter one of the innumerable heirs of Anneke Jans 
BOGARDUS.  Their children were George, William, Helen.
 
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