Gale, W. W. & Company
W. W. GALE &  COMPANY

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
and 
Eastern New Haven County

Illustrated

Volume II

New York – Chicago
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 
1918

pgs 222 - 225

 
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