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About George Washington Gale
Rev. George Washington Gale D.D.
Find A Grave Memorial ID # 5578846
http://blog.knox.edu/history/?p=15
Gale-Selden family of Galesburg, Illinois
Rev. George Washington Gale (1789 - September 13, 1861) was born in Stanford, New York and became a Presbyterian minister in western New York state. A graduate of Union College in 1814, and Princeton Theological Seminary in 1819. in 1827 Gale founded the Oneida Institute in Whitesboro, New York, an institution where students would pay for their education by doing manual labor.
Under the ministry of Gale, Charles Finney professed faith in Christ and undertook to become a Christian minister.
Gale later settled in what would become Galesburg, Illinois, to found Knox College (then called the Knox Manual Labor College) in 1837, site of one of the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knox_College_(Illinois)
Rev. George Washington Gale married in 1820 to Harriet Selden, daughter of Charles & Abigail Selden.
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George Washington Gale's Timeline
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December 3, 1789
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Stanford, Dutchess County, New York, United States
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February 15, 1822
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Adams, Jefferson County, New York, United States
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1826
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1828
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New York, United States
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1831
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New York, NY, United States
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1836
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1838
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September 13, 1861
Age 71
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Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois, United States
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