George Washington Gale

George Washington Gale

George Washington Gale (1789-1861) 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, yet "despite" the ministry of Gale Charles Finney professed faith in Christ and undertook to become a Christian minister. [ [http://www.gospeltruth.net/1868Memoirs/mem02.htm Memoirs, Conversion to Christ] ] [ [http://www.gospeltruth.net/1868Memoirs/mem03.htm Memoirs, Beginning of His Work] ] [ [http://www.gospeltruth.net/1868Memoirs/mem04.htm Memoirs, His Doctrinal Education and Other Experiences at Adams] ]

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.

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