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 GALE

GALLAGHER

Lady of Good Council, the mission of the Augus- tiniaii order in the United States. He was pastor of St. Mary"s church, Lawrence, Mass., where he completed a new church edifice. He was after- ward elected president of the College of St. Thomas, Villanova, Pa., and during his adminis- tration he rebuilt the college buildings and reor- ganized the course of study. In 1874, when the Augu.stinian order was reformed and the prov- ince of Villanova created, he was elected provin- cial. He was nominated by the pope Feb. 13,

1875, bishop of Hartford, as successor to Bishop McFarland, deceased. Preferring to remain with his order he sent his resignation to Rome, but it was not accepted, and he was consecrated at Hartford by Ai-chbishop Williams, March 19,

1876. He was the fourth bishop of Hartford. His zeal in behalf of the diocese soon undermined his health and while en route for Villanova, where he expected to recuperate, he died at Grand hotel, in New York city, Oct. 10, 1878.

QALE, Qeorge Washington, educator, was bom in Stanford, Duchess county, N.Y., Dec. 3, 1789; son of Josiali and Rachael (Mead) Gale; and a grandson of Joseph Gale, a native of York- shire, England, who settled in .Stamford, Conn., about 1730. He was graduated from Union college, Schenectady, N.Y'., in 181-t, and studied at Prince- ton theological seminary, 1814-15 and 1818. He was licensed to preach by the Hudson Presby- tery, Sept. 6. 1816. and supplied vacant pulpits in Duchess, Putnam and Greene counties, and was employed for a time by the Female mission- ary society of western New York, located in Utica, as a missionary in Jefferson and Oswego counties. He was ordained bj- the Presbytery of St. Lawrence, Oct. 36. 1819, and was installed pastor at Adams, N.Y., resigning on account of broken liealth in 1833. He took up his residence on a farm in the village of Western, Oneida county, N.Y., in 1837, where he taught a class of students, giving them board and tuition for a few hours' work each day on the farm. This led to establishing the Oneida institute at Whites- boro, N. Y., a manual labor institution of learning for yoimg men desiring an education, as a jirepa- ration for the ministrj'. He remained as princi- I)al of the school and superintendent of the farm and workshops until 1834, when he resigned and planned and organized an as.sociation of colonists intending to organize a village and farming com- munity in the west. In 1835 a tract of land was piircliased in Knox county. 111., with money pro- vided by the association. Out of the tract, a vil- lage plot and college farm were reserved, and the remainder was sold by the acre to settlers at four times the first cost: all profits and unsold land forming an endowment for the college. Emigra- tion began in 1836, and in 1837 Knox college was

chartered, a school opened, a Presbyterian church organized, and Galesbui-g was named in his honor. He was a member of the faculty of Knox college, and devoted the remainder of his life to the col- lege and the church. He was married to Harriet, daughter of the Hon. Charles Selden of Troy, N.Y..inl830. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Union college in 1857. He died at Galesburg, III., Sept. 13, 1861.

GALES, Joseph, journalist, was born in Eck- ington, England, April 10, 1786; son of Joseph Gales (1760-1841), printer and bookseller of Shef- field, England, who emigi-ated with his family to America in 1793, settled in Pliiladelphia, edited the Independent Gazette and printed the first steno- graphic repoi-ts of debates in congress which he took with liis own hand. In 1779 he sold his paper and removed to Riileigh, N.C.. and estab- lished the Begiatt.r which he continued to publish till succeeded about 1835 by his second son Wes- ton Gales, who was in turn succeeded by his younger brother Seaton Gales in 1848. Joseph, Jr., was educated at the University of North Carolina, learned the trade of printer in Philadel- ])hia. Pa., was a partner in The National Intelli- yencer, Washington, D.C., and became sole owner in 1810, changing it to a tri-weekly, and in 1813 to a daily, of which his brother-in-law, William Winston Seaton, became an equal partnei'. Their skill as reporters and their industry in securing and printing notable debates saved to posteritj' many valuable speeches no other way preserved, notably those of Webster and Hayne. The Intel- lUjencer supported the war measures, leading to the hostilities of 1813, and when Admiral Cock- burn pillaged the national capital, he personally sought out and helped to destroy the printing office and librarj- of the proprietors. Mr. Gales died in Washington, D.C., Jidy 31, 18G0.

QALLAQHER, Charles Wesley, educator, was born in Boston, Mass., Feb 3, 1846; son of .Samuel Chartres and Rooxby Moody (Foster) Gallagher; and grandson of Hugh and Elizabeth (Chartres) Gallagher of Sackville, N.B., and of Jacob and Betsey (In- galls) Foster of Andover, Mass. His first ances- tors in Amer- ica were Ejiliraim Fos- ter, who came to Andover,

Mass., about 1700, and Hugh Gallagher, who came to .Sackville, New Brunswick, about 1775. His parents went to Salem, N.H., in his infancy, and remained there until 1860, when they