Mary G. Gale (1810-1876) was born in Hooksett, New Hampshire, and died in Manchester, New Hampshire. She married Amos G. Gale, a prominent Manchester doctor, in 1831 in Portland, New Hampshire. In 1868, Mary Baker Eddy traveled to New Hampshire at the request of the family of Gale, who was ill with pneumonia, and healed her. When Clara Shannon, a student of Eddy's, later asked Eddy what had prompted her to write her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Eddy told Shannon of this healing. Gale provided an endowment in her will that would be used for the creation of a "home for aged and destitute females," thereby founding The Gale Home for Women after her death in 1890.

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