Yolo County
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A. R. GALE
A.
R. Gale is numbered among the prominent business men of Winters,
Yolo County, where he is successfully engaged in the building contracting
business, due to his technical knowledge and his sound and dependable business
methods. Born in Redfield, South Dakota,
on the 15th of August, 1885, he was reared in the vicinity of Omaha,
Nebraska, receiving his educational training in the schools of the latter place
and at Waterloo, Iowa, and then started to learn the carpenter trade. In April, 1904, he came to California,
locating in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, where he completed his
apprenticeship. Later he entered the employ
of the State of California, starting in as a journeyman carpenter, from which
position he was successfully promoted until he became superintendent of
construction, with headquarters at Eldridge, California. He was engaged on warehouses and public
buildings, and also did construction work on the hospital at Eldridge, and much
sewer work, many of his jobs being large and important. In 1920 Mr. Gale came to Winters
and started in business for himself as a building contractor. He draws the plans for his buildings and is
recognized as an expert architect and designer.
In recent years he has erected practically all of the buildings
constructed Winters and vicinity, including the Skaggs
store building, the addition to the grammar school building, the Japanese
schoolhouse and many cottages and bungalows.
He has done much work on ranches in this section of the valley and one
of his notable jobs was the erection of a large pear shed at Monticello,
containing one hundred thousand feet of lumber.
He keeps from ten to fifteen men busy all the time and has earned an
enviable reputation in industrial circles of this locality.
Mr.
Gale has been married twice and to the first union was born three children, all
of whom are grown to maturity. His
second wife, who maiden name was Mary Dowdall, was born in Sonoma, this state,
and is a member of an old and respected pioneer family. To this union have been
born six children. Mr. Gale is a
man of excellent personal qualities, is public-spirited and is progressive in
his ideas and methods, while in his social relations he is cordial and sincere,
for which reasons he stands deservedly high in public regard.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J. W. Major, History of
Sacramento Valley California, Vol. 2 Pages 323-324. Pioneer Historical Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010 Gerald Iaquinta.
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