Seaton Gales

Seaton Gales (1828 - 1878) was editor of the Raleigh Register

Family

Gales was the grandson of Winifred Marshall and Joseph Gales, Sr., a native of Sheffield, England, who founded the Raleigh Register in 1799. He published the newspaper for over forty years. Following his death in 1842, the father of Seaton Gales, Weston R., continued its publication.

One of Gales' sons, George M. Gales (1876 - 1954), worked with the Southern Railway as a young man. Afterward he was a stenographer for the American Tobacco Company, prior to becoming head of the National Cigar Stand Company. This firm was a subsidiary of United Drug Company. His older brother, Thomas Cameron Gales, entered the tobacco business as a young man, before going to New York City in 1902. He became a director of the American Cigar Company.