Judge Gale was a man of high principle and ever bore an
unblemished moral character. Once in his early career at the bar
he was forced by the then prevailing customs of society to fight
a duel. His antagonist was Sir James Stuart, who had quarreled
with him in court and Mr. Gale was severely wounded. It was an
event which, we believe, he profoundly regretted, and gladly saw
the better day dawn when men ran no risk of forfeiting their
position as gentlemen by refusing to shoot, or be shot at, in
order to redress real or fancied insults. He was a scrupulously
just man, most methodical and punctual in business matters. There
were in his writings great care, and precision and clearness of
language. In his letters, too, and even in signing his name, the
same trait was observable. He often used to condemn the stupid
custom of men who signed their names with a flourish, yet so
illegibly that no one could read, but only guess at, the word
intended. He was not ostentatious of his charities, yet they were
not lacking. Some years before his demise he made a gift of land
to Bishop’s College, Lennoxville, and during the last months of
his life, when age and illness were day by day wearing him out,
he found relief for his own distress in aiding to relieve that of
the needy and afflicted.
With him passed away one more of those men, who link the creative
past, in which were laid the foundations of our civilization,
with the bustling present and of whom the generation of today
knows naught; of men more proud and precise in their manners
than we are; and of such rectitude and sense of honor, that we
feel deeply the loss of the influence of their example. A loyal
subject, a learned and upright judge, a kind, true, steadfast
friend, was lost to the community in Judge Gale.
ROLLO CAMPBELL, M. D.
Dr. Rollo Campbell, of whom it was said that no man ever spoke
ill, was the son of Dr. Francis W. Campbell and was born in
Montreal on the 6th of June, 1864. His life record covered a
comparatively brief span. He was educated under private tutors
and in Bishop’s College, where he pursued his professional
course, being graduated from that institution at Lennoxville, P.
Q., with honors in the class of 1886, at which time the M. D.
degree was conferred upon him. His early professional experience
came to him as interne in the Western Hospital at Montreal, where
he remained for a year, gaining the wide knowledge and training
that only hospital practice can bring. He then went to Europe,
pursuing his studies in London and in Edinburgh. Upon returning
to his native land he located in Montreal for practice and it was
not long before he had established an enviable reputation as a
conscientious, capable physician of untiring energy, thoroughly
devoted to his profession and ever ready to do a kindness to
those in need of his services. He was especially interested in
surgery and his researches along that line were broad and varied.
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