BERGEY, GALE S. -- A wide-awake business man who has had much to do with the development of commercial affairs at Huntington Beach, is Gale S. Bergey, one of the enterprising firm of T. B. Talbert and Company, dealers in real estate and authorized agents for the Ford Automobile Company, covering the territory in particular of Huntington Beach. He was born at Los Angeles on June 26, 1888, and was educated in the public schools of Long Beach and at the Fountain Valley school. He followed farming in the Talbert district, in Orange County, and so naturally came to work for and be associated with T. B. Talbert. After he had tried farming for himself for a couple of years, he went into partnership with Henry Talbert in the San Luis Rey district, in San Diego County engaging in farming two years.
In 1913, he entered the employ of the T. B. Talbert Real Estate Company, and later he was made a member of the firm. He gives most of his time to exploiting the Ford motor interests, and there are few men in all Orange County who know the local automobile trade better than does Mr. Bergey. He also knows the Ford automobile, and that is saying a good deal, despite the popular impression that the machine is so simple one need not trouble to get acquainted with it. In 1917, Mr. Bergey was appointed constable of Huntington Beach, in the fall of 1918 was elected to the office for a four-year term, and it is safe to say that no one has ever given greater satisfaction in that difficult office. He is efficient, alert, affable and blessed with human sympathy and common sense, two qualities of inestimable service in the administration of any such public office.
When Mr. Bergey was married, he took for his wife Adele H. Crockett of Los Angeles, but a native of Iowa, and their fortunate union has been blessed with two children, Frances Adele and Gale Le Roy. Huntington Beach may well congratulate itself on numbering among its expanding firms this one represented by Mr. Bergey, and on being able, at the same time, to get such an honest and satisfactory public officer.
