Orange

GALE, Maurice Alfred

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 197

Maurice Alfred GALE, Bradford [Orange County, Vermont], hotel proprietor, was 
born [no date is given] in Sandy Creek, Oswego County, New York, son of 
Reuben E. and Emeline (SPINK) GALE. Educated in the public schools of 
Potsdam [St. Lawrence County], New York. Clerk in general insurance office, 
Cleveland [Cuyahoga County], Ohio, 1875-1880; covered fourteen states in 
capacity of salesman for the Cleveland Paper Company 1880-1893; had charge of 
the Clyde River Paper Company's office for a brief time; in hotel business at 
Newbury [Orange County, Vermont] for five years; purchased hotel at Fairlee 
[Orange County], conducting same until 1903; then purchased Hotel Low at 
Bradford, of which he is at present proprietor. Republican; constable 
1906-1909; deputy sheriff of Orange County since 1909; town grand juror of 
Fairlee 1904-1906. Congregationalist; chorister six years in Newbury. 
Member Pulaski Lodge No. 58, Free & Accepted Masons, of Wells River [Orange 
County], and Mt. Lebanon Chapter No. 13, Royal Arch Masons, of Bradford. In 
1886 he [Maurice Alfred GALE] married [Miss?] Ida Belle SAWYER, of Newbury 
[Orange County, Vermont]; they had three children: William Maurice, Phillip 
Donald, and Florence Burnham (deceased).

Submitted by Cathy Kubly