The illustrated LaconianHistory and industries of Laconia, of the city and its manufacturing and business interests . te for both the park andmemorial structure, and in the nearfuture the trustees and building com-mittee will be ready to procure plansand go ahead with the beautifying ofthe grounds andthe erection ofthe bu i 1 d i n g,which will un-doubtedly beone of thehandsomestand most suit-able structuresof the kind inNew Ham p-shire. The Galebequest will notonly completethe work oferection, butwill provide afund for itscare and main-tenance. T h ewhole matteris in the handso
The illustrated LaconianHistory and industries of Laconia, of the city and its manufacturing and business interests . te for both the park andmemorial structure, and in the nearfuture the trustees and building com-mittee will be ready to procure plansand go ahead with the beautifying ofthe grounds andthe erection ofthe bu i 1 d i n g,which will un-doubtedly beone of thehandsomestand most suit-able structuresof the kind inNew Ham p-shire. The Galebequest will notonly completethe work oferection, butwill provide afund for itscare and main-tenance. T h ewhole matteris in the handsof Messrs. JohnT. Busiel, Ed-win F. Burleigh,and Charles , who areexecutors andtrustees under the Gale will, and alsotrustees and building committee for thecity. Napoleon Bonaparte Gale was bornin Gilmanton (now Belmont), March 31815, son of Daniel and Abigail (Page)Gale. His grandfather was StephenGale, who was born in Exeter, in 1739,who figured prominently in the Frenchand Indian wars, and who settled inGilmanton in 17S0. Both Stephen andDaniel Gale were influential men in thecolonial days, the latter being a select-. Ilie late Maj. Napoleon B. Gale man for twenty years, justice of thepeace, representative, and an associatejudge of the Court of Sessions. Napoleon Gale passed his early yearson the Gale farm, attended the commonschools and also the Sanbornton andGilmanton academies. When eighteenyears of age, he became a clerk in thestore of his brother, Daniel M. Gale, atLakeport, where he remained for a shorttime. In August, 1835, he went toBoston and was a clerk in a grocerystore there for four years, then went toMeredith andengaged in bus-iness with Josh-ua R. Smith,but in 1840 heremoved to hisfathers h o m eon account ofill health, andafter the death3 I of his father, in 1S45, he carriedon the h o m efarm. In Au-gust, 1S52, hishealth was re-established,and he enteredthe Belknapcounty bank,as a substitutecashier for hisbrother, DanielM., who was that dateMa
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