Gale, Robert bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 436-437, Astoria Township
Robert Gale is a native of England, where he was born in 1836. In 1867 he was united in marriage near London with Miss Eliza Wade, daughter of Robert and Mary Ann Wade, by whom he has four children, - William, Elizabeth, Caroline and Amelia. Robert Gale is the son of John and Elizabeth (Shaw) Gale, and was the eldest of a family of 11 children. He was raised on a farm. In 1869 he crossed the Atlantic for the New World and landed in Canada. He made his way to Chicago, thence to Stark Co., and after a short residence there located in this tp., where he continues to reside, on sec. 35; he is engaged in farming. P. O., Astoria.
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