Ada Iddings Gale

Ada Iddings Gale (February 24, 1854 - February 25, 1915) was an author and educator.

Early life Ada Iddings Gale was born on February 24, 1854, in Dayton, Ohio, the daughter of Joseph Talbert Iddings (1829-1891) and Martha Ann Johnston (1829-1899). She descended from a long line of Quaker ancestry. In her early childhood her literary inclining was apparent and received careful fostering from her father, Rev. Joseph Iddings, who was also largely her teacher.

She lectured on the "Attributes of Beauty " and published two books, one a volume of verse, "A Little English Portfolio", She divorced her first husband, Alpheus Smith Gale, 1898. She remarried Maj Henry D. Thomason (1858–1936), a doctor who served during the Spanish–American War and in the army medical corps in Cuba and in the Philippines and then worked as surgeon on several ocean steamships.

She died on February 25, 1915, in Fort Sam Houston, and is buried with her husband at Riverside Cemetery, Albion, Michigan.