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George W. Hale, proprietor of lumber yards and planing mills, Sonora, California, has been actively identified with the work of building up Tuolumne county for more than thirty years. A brief review of his life gives the following facts: George W. Hale was born in Somerset county, Maine, May 4, 1841, and is the fifth of eleven children born to John and Olive S. Hale, natives of Maine and New Hampshire respectively. His ancestors were English people who came from England to America in the sixteenth century. The grandsires of our subject, on both the paternal and maternal sides, were officers in the patriotic army during the Revolutionary War.
Early in his teens, George W. began the battle for life for himself. Leaving home he led a rambling life several years before embarking for the golden West. Buying and selling stock was his principal occupation. Not satisfied with he prospect of life in his native state, in 1857 he left the haunts of his boyhood and came to California, making the journey via the Panama route. Since then he has visited his old home four different times. After his arrival here he spent the first two years in mining in Tuolumne county. In 1859, he and a partner engaged in the lumber trade. In 1874, Mr. Hale purchased his partner's interest, and has since conducted his various enterprises alone. His present mill, which supplies the Sonora yard with lumber, is located on the Stanislaus river, some twenty miles from Sonora. The mill is run by steam power, and has a capacity of turning out twenty-five thousand feet of lumber daily. It employs forty men. The Sonora yard has always on hand a large and choice stock of building materials, while the planing mill turns out flooring and all kinds of moulding, etc. Five men are employed about the mill, and Mr. Hales's daughter, Miss Olive S., is bookkeeper and has control of the office business. For many years Mr. Hale was connected with he lumbering business at Columbia, before locating in Sonora. He sold out the plant there some years ago, and lost heavily in the transfer. He has been identified with many enterprises in the county. He built the water-works at Oakdale; is a trustee and one of the principal stockholders of the Tuolumne Water Company.
Mr. Hale was married at Columbia, to Miss Josephine Spear, a native of Peoria, Illinois, and a daughter of Joseph and S. M. Spear, residents of Visalia, California. Mr. and Mrs. Hale have one daughter living, and two sons, Clarence and Charles, deceased. He takes no active interest in political matters. Socially, he affiliates with the F. & A. N., I. O. O. F. and Chosen Friends, all of Columbia.
A Memorial & Biographical History of the Counties of Merced, Stanislaus, Calaveras, Tuolumne & Mariposa, California, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1892, page 233, California State Library (qc 979.4 M5), Sacramento, California. Under "Item in Brief from Columbia" Mrs. N. L. Knudsen, her son, Hale, and daughter, Miss Marie, of Berkeley, arrived in Sonora late last week in response to a message announcing the fatal illness of Mrs. Knudsen's father, G. W. Hale. The Union Democrat (Sonora, Tuolumne, California) 25 September 1915, page 1. Death of Old Lumberman George Webb Hale, for over half a century a resident of Tuolumne County, died at his home on South Washington street, last Saturday morning, after an illness of only a few days.
The deceased was a native of Maine, born in Somerset county of tht state May 31, 1837, and was 78 years, 4 months and 5 days of age at the time of his death. In 1856, at the age of 19, the deceased came to California and for a few years followed mining. In 1859, despite the fact that the placers were still yielding heavily, Mr. Hale saw that the lumber business was profitable and with a partner he opened a lumber yard in Columbia and acquired timber holdings on the South Fork of the Stanislaus, in the vicinty of Lyon's Dam where now, under modern and improved conditions the Standard Lumber company is logging off an area containing one of the richest growths of timbers in the west. With the primitive methods, the ox team and the long wagon haul, Mr. Hale and his associate marketed an immense quantity of lumber. In the middle eighties he succeeded to his partner's interest, sold his Columbia yards and established yards in Sonora upon a portion of the land now occupied by the Standard Lumber company. He continued in the lumber business until 15 years ago, when he disposed of his interests and retired from active life.
The surviving members of his immediate family are his widow and a daughter, Mrs. N. L. Knudsen.
The deceased was a man of many excellent traits of character and of a genial temperament which made for his many friends who regret that he is no more.
The funeral was conducted Monday morning from his late home, under the direction of Tuolumne Lodge No. 21, I. O. O. F., of Columbia, of which institution he had been a member for years. Old Fellow and Native Daughers of Dardanelle Parlor escorted the remains to the upper end of town, on the journey to Columbia, where they were buried in the family plot in the Masonic cemetery with the ceremony provided in the ritual of the Odd Fellows. Native Sons and Native Daughters of California also turned out in honor of the deceased pioneer.
The Union Democrat (Sonora, Tuolumne, California) 25 September 1915, page 4. In Sonora, September 18, 1915, George W. Hale, a native of Maine, aged 78 years. The Union Democrat (Sonora, Tuolumne, California) 25 September 1915. 1867 Hale, George Webb, 29 years, b. Maine, lumberman, Columbia, June 22, 1866 1873 Hale, George Webb, 29 years, b. Maine, lumberman, Columbia 1875 Hale, George Webb same as above 1877 Hale, George Webb same as above 1882 Hale, George Webb same as above 1886 Hale, George Webb same as above 1888 Hale, George Webb 49 yrs. b. Maine, lumberman, Sonora 1890 Hale, George Webb same as above 1892 Hale, George Webb 50 yrs., 5' 9", fair complexion, gray eyes, gray hair, lumberman, b. Maine, Sonora 1894 Hale, George Webb same as above 1896 Hale, George Webb lumberman, 54 yrs., 5' 9", fair complexion, gray eyes, gray hair, b. Maine, P.O. Sonora Tuolumne County, California Great Register, California State Library, Sacramento, California[Board.FBC.FBK.FTW] George W. Hale, proprietor of lumber yards and planing mills, Sonora, California, has been actively identified with the work of building up Tuolumne county for more than thirty years. A brief review of his life gives the following facts:
George W. Hale was born in Somerset county, Maine, May 4, 1841, and is the fifth of eleven children born to John and Olive S. Hale, natives of Maine and New Hampshire respectively. His ancestors were English people who came from England to America in the sixteenth century. The grandsires of our subject, on both the paternal and maternal sides, were officers in the patriotic army during the Revolutionary War.
Early in his teens, George W. began the battle for life for himself. Leaving home he led a rambling life several years before embarking for the golden West. Buying and selling stock was his principal occupation. Not satisfied with he prospect of life in his native state, in 1857 he left the haunts of his boyhood and came to California, making the journey via the Panama route. Since then he has visited his old home four different times. After his arrival here he spent the first two years in mining in Tuolumne county. In 1859, he and a partner engaged in the lumber trade. In 1874, Mr. Hale purchased his partner's interest, and has since conducted his various enterprises alone. His present mill, which supplies the Sonora yard with lumber, is located on the Stanislaus river, some twenty miles from Sonora. The mill is run by steam power, and has a capacity of turning out twenty-five thousand feet of lumber daily. It employs forty men. The Sonora yard has always on hand a large and choice stock of building materials, while the planing mill turns out flooring and all kinds of moulding, etc. Five men are employed about the mill, and Mr. Hales's daughter, Miss Olive S., is bookkeeper and has control of the office business. For many years Mr. Hale was connected with he lumbering business at Columbia, before locating in Sonora. He sold out the plant there some years ago, and lost heavily in the transfer. He has been identified with many enterprises in the county. He built the water-works at Oakdale; is a trustee and one of the principal stockholders of the Tuolumne Water Company.
Mr. Hale was married at Columbia, to Miss Josephine Spear, a native of Peoria, Illinois, and a daughter of Joseph and S. M. Spear, residents of Visalia, California. Mr. and Mrs. Hale have one daughter living, and two sons, Clarence and Charles, deceased. He takes no active interest in political matters. Socially, he affiliates with the F. & A. N., I. O. O. F. and Chosen Friends, all of Columbia.
A Memorial & Biographical History of the Counties of Merced, Stanislaus, Calaveras, Tuolumne & Mariposa, California, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1892, page 233, California State Library (qc 979.4 M5), Sacramento, California. Under "Item in Brief from Columbia" Mrs. N. L. Knudsen, her son, Hale, and daughter, Miss Marie, of Berkeley, arrived in Sonora late last week in response to a message announcing the fatal illness of Mrs. Knudsen's father, G. W. Hale. The Union Democrat (Sonora, Tuolumne, California) 25 September 1915, page 1. Death of Old Lumberman George Webb Hale, for over half a century a resident of Tuolumne County, died at his home on South Washington street, last Saturday morning, after an illness of only a few days.
The deceased was a native of Maine, born in Somerset county of tht state May 31, 1837, and was 78 years, 4 months and 5 days of age at the time of his death. In 1856, at the age of 19, the deceased came to California and for a few years followed mining. In 1859, despite the fact that the placers were still yielding heavily, Mr. Hale saw that the lumber business was profitable and with a partner he opened a lumber yard in Columbia and acquired timber holdings on the South Fork of the Stanislaus, in the vicinty of Lyon's Dam where now, under modern and improved conditions the Standard Lumber company is logging off an area containing one of the richest growths of timbers in the west. With the primitive methods, the ox team and the long wagon haul, Mr. Hale and his associate marketed an immense quantity of lumber. In the middle eighties he succeeded to his partner's interest, sold his Columbia yards and established yards in Sonora upon a portion of the land now occupied by the Standard Lumber company. He continued in the lumber business until 15 years ago, when he disposed of his interests and retired from active life.
The surviving members of his immediate family are his widow and a daughter, Mrs. N. L. Knudsen.
The deceased was a man of many excellent traits of character and of a genial temperament which made for his many friends who regret that he is no more.
The funeral was conducted Monday morning from his late home, under the direction of Tuolumne Lodge No. 21, I. O. O. F., of Columbia, of which institution he had been a member for years. Old Fellow and Native Daughers of Dardanelle Parlor escorted the remains to the upper end of town, on the journey to Columbia, where they were buried in the family plot in the Masonic cemetery with the ceremony provided in the ritual of the Odd Fellows. Native Sons and Native Daughters of California also turned out in honor of the deceased pioneer.
The Union Democrat (Sonora, Tuolumne, California) 25 September 1915, page 4. In Sonora, September 18, 1915, George W. Hale, a native of Maine, aged 78 years. The Union Democrat (Sonora, Tuolumne, California) 25 September 1915. 1867 Hale, George Webb, 29 years, b. Maine, lumberman, Columbia, June 22, 1866 1873 Hale, George Webb, 29 years, b. Maine, lumberman, Columbia 1875 Hale, George Webb same as above 1877 Hale, George Webb same as above 1882 Hale, George Webb same as above 1886 Hale, George Webb same as above 1888 Hale, George Webb 49 yrs. b. Maine, lumberman, Sonora 1890 Hale, George Webb same as above 1892 Hale, George Webb 50 yrs., 5' 9", fair complexion, gray eyes, gray hair, lumberman, b. Maine, Sonora 1894 Hale, George Webb same as above 1896 Hale, George Webb lumberman, 54 yrs., 5' 9", fair complexion, gray eyes, gray hair, b. Maine, P.O. Sonora Tuolumne County, California Great Register, California State Library, Sacramento, California References
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