Seaton Gales (1828 ''-'' 1878) was editor of the ''Raleigh Register'' and a junior editor of the ''Raleigh Sentinel''. He was a member of a prominent family of journalists in 19th century

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. During the

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era he often referred to the

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as a ''rag''. Gales once came to his home using an alternate route, in order to keep from passing under the flag.

Family

Gales was the grandson of Winifred Marshall and Joseph Gales, Sr., a native of

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, 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.''Historical Raleigh, With Sketches of Wake County, From 1771'', Moses Neal Amis, Commercial Printing Company, Raleigh, NC, pg. 83. 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

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, prior to becoming head of the National Cigar Stand Company. This firm was a subsidiary of

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. His older brother, Thomas Cameron Gales, entered the tobacco business as a young man, before going to

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in 1902. He became a director of the American Cigar Company.R. J. Reynolds
retrieved on September 1, 2009.

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