Manuscripts Collection
Personal papers of Edward Chenery Gale and Richard P. Gale are also located in the Minnesota Historical Society manuscript collections.
Samuel C. Gale journal, November 15, 1852-September 15, 1877. [St. Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Historical Society, 1938?]
Microfilm available for sale or interlibrary loan from the Minnesota Historical Society.
Accession numbers: 4,711; 8,890; 11,887; 14,144; 14,190; 14,298; 15,177; 16,322; 16,340
Processed by: Lara D. Friedman, 1996; additions by Alex Kent, March 2009
Catalog ID number: 1713378
Includes a genealogical chart.
Copyright held by Ward C. Burton, who appears to have married Ella Clarkson Lindley, granddaughter of Samuel C. Gale and Susan Damon Gale.
Tamar Goddard Gale's reminiscences and a journal, begun in 1813, detail her early life in Vermont and Massachusetts, her marriage to Isaac Gale, births and deaths of her children and other family members, the arrival of her sons Amory and Samuel in Minneapolis in the 1850s, her arrival in Minneapolis in the 1860s, and comments on the Civil War, Dakota War, and other events.
A more detailed version of the reminiscences (above). The last entry is written by her son, Samuel C. Gale, describing her death on February 22, 1879.
Samuel Chester Gale was born September 15, 1827; moved to Minneapolis to practice law in 1857; married Susan Abigail Damon in October of 1861; and died on September 22, 1916.
Susan Damon Gale was born May 7, 1833 in Holden, Massachusetts. She was the youngest of nine children born to woolen manufacturer Samuel Damon and his wife Alony (Chenery) Damon. Samuel and Susan Gale bore five children: Edward, Alice, Anna, Marion, and Charles. Susan Damon Gale died at the family home on February 20, 1908 in Minneapolis.
Samuel Gale's journal begins with detailed descriptions of his life as a student at Yale University: the books he read, the debates and orations he heard, comments on the professors and their lectures, and a fight between students and "townies." After his graduation from Yale (1854) he attended Harvard Law School for a year, and there is more material about student life there. In 1857 Gale moved to Minneapolis to practice law. The first few years of his career are not well documented, but after 1859 he began to write more entries in the journal. There are comments on the state and national political scenes, the Rev. Henry M. Nichols, the Civil War, economic opportunities in Minnesota, the development and growth of Minneapolis, construction of the railroads, and land speculation. The period 1859-1963 is the best documented. The journal is a typed copy of the original loaned by E.C. Gale, Minneapolis.
Microfilm copy of the typed copy of Samuel Gale's journal.
Susan Gale's journals deal almost exclusively with the home. Two separate journals were bound into one volume by her children. The first, covering the period January 1850-April 1851 describes the lectures, debates, social visits, church services, and singing lessons which occupied her life in Holden, Massachusetts. The second journal, entitled "Family Journal," begins on August 23, 1865 and concludes on September 22, 1878. It recounts briefly the Gales' wedding in 1861 and the construction of their house in Minneapolis, and continues with details of their family life--the doings of their children, the arrival and departure of guests, social visits paid and received, illnesses and deaths, sermons at the Plymouth Congregational Church, washing days, and similar matters. In February and March of 1857 there is an account of a trip taken by Samuel and Susan Gale down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, east to Jacksonville and St. Augustine, and north along the Atlantic Coast, by way of Charleston, Washington D.C., and Philadelphia. In the back of the journal is an obituary of Susan Damon Gale and an account of her last illness by Alice Gale Jones, her daughter. In the front of the volume are two photographs of the Gale home in Minneapolis.
Amory F. Gale, brother of Samuel C. Gale and Harlow A. Gale, was born March 3, 1833 in Massachusetts and died on April 10, 1935 in Minneapolis.
Copied down by Caroline Gale Johnston on April 5, 1957, who was the granddaughter of Caroline Goddard Gale, the wife of Amory Gale.
Brother of Samuel C. Gale and Amory Gale, and the first of the brothers to come to Minneapolis.
Small book printed privately for Harlow Gale's grandchildren, arranged and edited by his wife.
The journals and scrapbook kept by Anna Gale Lindley, Samuel C. and Susan Damon Gale's second daughter born April 3, 1868, include photographs and clippings (many undated), information on her wedding to Clarkson Lindley, detailed descriptions of the children, accounts of day-to-day life, and poems by her sister Alice.
The journals kept by Ella Lindley Burton, daughter of Anna Gale Lindley, span the time from when she was nine years old until 1931. They include photographs, descriptions of her activities as a young girl with friends and dolls, and her experiences in school and in college at Bryn Mawr. They continue after her marriage with a great deal of detail on the development of her children--Gale, Alice, Lindley, and John--and family life. At the back of the final volume are recipes and lists of food served to the children at various ages.
Alice Gale Jones, born December 9, 1864, the oldest daughter of Samuel C. and Susan Damon Jones, began keeping her journals in 1891. The first four volumes are mainly concerned with her marriage, family life, and the activities of the children and include many snapshots. The final volume, dating from the early 1930s through 1935, includes brief descriptions of social events and travel as well as many notes and observations on the political situation in the United States one the eve of World War II.
Marion Gale was born April 1, 1871, the third of Samuel C. and Susan Damon Gale's daughters.
Father of Ariel Burton Pomeroy. Burton family is related to Gale family.
Correspondence with members of his family in New Hampshire and with his wife, Harriette L. Smith. Letters are not in chronological order.
The daughter of Alice Gale Jones. Married Philip Duff. Name prior to marriage was Helen Holmes Jones.
Includes accounts of trips to Germany ca.1913 and Honolulu ca. 1920.
Ariel Burton Pomeroy appears to be the daughter Mr. and Mrs. Hazen James Burton. The poems were compiled by Ariel's niece.