Gales. I. Joseph, an American journalist, born in England about 1760, died in Raleigh, N. C, Aug. 24, 1841. He was originally a printer and bookseller at Sheffield, where he founded and published the Sheffield Register." His republican principles involved him in difficulty with the government, and in 1793 he sold his journal to James Montgomery the poet, and emigrated to the United States, He settled in Philadelphia, where he conducted the Independent Gazetteer for two or three years, and introduced the practice of reporting by shorthand the debates in congress. In 1799 he sold the paper to Samuel Harrison Smith and removed to Raleigh, N. C, where he established the "Register," which he conducted for nearly 40 years.

II. Joseph, son of the preceding, born at Eckington, near Sheffield, April 10, 1786, died in Washington, D. C, July 21, 1860. He was educated at the university of North Carolina, went to Philadelphia to learn the art of printing, and in 1807 settled at Washington as the assistant and afterward as the partner of Samuel Harrison Smith, who in 1800 had removed the Independent Gazetteer" to Washington and changed its name to the "National'Intelligeneer." In 1810 Mr. Gales became sole proprietor. of the journal, which was published tri-weekly. In 1812 he took into partnership his brother-in-law, Mr. William W. Seaton, and in January, 1813, began to issue the "National Intelligencer" daily. It was continued till 1867.