The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 388

WARREN L. GALE.

Warren L. Gale, an orchardist living near Zillah, was born in Trumbull county,
Ohio, May 2, 1853. He is a son of Abram R. and Nancy (Hunter) Gale, who were
natives of New Jersey and Pennsylvania respectively. They became pioneer
settlers of Ohio and in the fall of 1855 removed from that state to McHenry
county, Illinois, but in the spring of 1856 left the latter place for Fillmore
county, Minnesota, making the journey thither with ox teams. There the father
took up government land upon which not a furrow had been turned nor an
improvement made and with characteristic energy he began the development of the
property. In 1877 he sold out and went to North Carolina, where he resided for
two years in 1879 he became a resident of Boone county, Nebraska, again
attracted by the opportunities of the new and growing west. There he took up
government land and at once began the arduous task of developing a new farm. In
the course of years his fields were brought under a high state of cultivation
and he continued to own and operate that farm to the time of his death, which
occurred in 1898. His widow survived him for several years and became a resident
of Seattle, where her death occurred in 1906. During the period of their
residence in Nebraska they won a substantial measure of success.

Warren L. Gale, after acquiring a public school education, started out in the
business world independently when nineteen years of age by renting land. He
afterward went to North Carolina with his father and accompanied him to
Nebraska in 1879, in which year he, too, took up a homestead claim. There he
remained for twenty-two years, or until February, 1901, when he sold his
property in that district and made his way to the northwest, becoming a resident
of Yakima county. Here he purchased twenty acres of land a mile and a half
northwest of Zillah. It was improved property, to which he has since added other
modern improvements. And upon his farm are now found all the accessories and
conveniences of a model ranch property of the twentieth century. He has built a
fine house upon the place and everything about his ranch indicates his practical
methods and his progressive spirit. He has eighteen acres of his land planted to
apples, pears, prunes, peaches and apricots and he is justly regarded as a
leading orchardist of his district, for he employs the most scientific methods
in the care and spraying of his trees and in the gathering, packing and
shipping of his fruit.

In 1880 Mr. Gale was married to Miss Louise Lamont, a native of Michigan, and
they became parents of two children: Mary Emily, the wife of A. T. Snipes, a
stockman residing in Klickitat county, Washington, by whom she has one son; and
Charles, who is in the shipyards at Vancouver, Washington. He is married and has
a son, now about a year old. In 1906 Mr. Gale wedded Mrs. Nellie Laroe, nee
Hardy, who was born in Marietta, Ohio, a daughter of John and Julia Hardy. There
is one child by this marriage, Warren L., Jr., whose birth occurred June 26,
1918.

In politics Mr. Gale is a stalwart republican. He has served four years on the
school board and he is a member of the Water Users Association. He has never
been active in politics as an office seeker, preferring to give his undivided
attention to his business affairs, and the careful direction of his labors has
won him a place among the successful orchardists of the Yakima valley. He has
made a comprehensive and thorough study of everything relating to horticultural
development in this section and he speaks with authority upon all vital
questions concerning fruit growing in the district. He secured the best nursery
stock and his orchards are indeed a thing of beauty in blossom time and a source
of substantial profit in the harvest season.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.