W. W. Gale & Company is the outgrowth of a business that was established
in 1897 at No. 11 Pitkin street in New Haven for the purpose of conducting
an electrical contracting business. It was founded by W. W. Gale, who carried
on the business under his own name until the spring of 1902. On the 1st
of March of that year a company was formed to enable the him to expand
more rapidly and to meet the greatly increased demands for its services.
The company was given the name of W. W. Gale & Company, Incorporated,
which it now bears, the incorporators being W. W. Gale, Rollin S. Woodruff,
N. W. Kendall, Henry Musch and Edmund Zacher. On the 1st of February, 1903,
the company enlarged its establishment by moving to its present quarters
at Nos. 64 to 68 Center street in New Haven. In February, 1908, Charles
L. Hubbard, of Norwich, Connecticut, and Huntington Lee, of New Haven,
purchased a half interest in the business, which left W. W. Gale, Charles
L. Hubbard and Huntington Lee in control of the enterprise. On the 8th
of September, 1912, Mr. Gale died in an automobile accident in New York
state and his heirs sold his interest in the business to Charles L. Hubbard
and Huntington Lee in November, 1912. The business is now under the management
of the latter, who is conducting the interests with a complete and efficient
organization to furnish and install electrical equip-ment and artistic
lighting fixtures of every description. Many prominent buildings have been
equipped by this company, including the New Haven county courthouse, the
New Haven high school, the Second National Bank, the New Haven Savings
Bank, the National Savings Bank, the Union & New Haven Trust Company,
the Security Insurance Company, the New Haven Journal-Courier building,
the S. S. Kresge Company's building, the Wuestefeld garage, the Whitfield
garage, the Hotel Garde, the Strouse-Adler Company factory, the Acme Wire
Company factory, I. Newman & Son's factory, Whitney Blake Company's
factory, Kolynos Company's factory, Mayo Radiator Company's factory, St.
Rose's Roman Catholic church, the First Methodist Episcopal church, the
Trinity Methodist Episcopal church, the Epworth Methodist Episcopal church,
the Yale electrical laboratory, the Yale mining and metal laboratory, the
Yale Art School, the Yale Law School, the Yale Battell chapel, the Graduates
Club building, the Elihu Club building, Poll's theatre, the Elks' lodge
building and the residences of F. F. Brewster, Thomas Hooker, E. G. Stoddard,
Franklin Farrell, Jr., M. H. Marlin, W. H. Ludington, Walter Perry and
F. T. Bradley, all of New Haven, Connecticut; the Connecticut School for
Feeble Minded at Mansfield; the Connecticut State School for Boys at Meriden;
the Norwich Hospital for the Insane at Norwich; the Thames National Bank
at Norwich; the Birmingham National Bank at Derby; the Winchester Woolen
Mills at Norwich; St. Lawrence Roman Catholic church at West Haven: Poli’s
theatre at Springfield. Massachusetts; and the Masonic Temples at Westville
and West Haven, Connecticut.
Modern History of New Haven
Illustrated Volume II New York – Chicago
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