Arthur Clement Dale

Clementine Galatas marries Dr John Thomas Dale (2/10/1883) they had one son together Arthur Clement Dale (12/29/1883).

Clementine Galatas is a Creole woman (meaning a descendant of original French founders) and has a rich French pedigree family history from the Dubuission, Cousins, Laurent and Galatas (Spanish) families; that all lived and owned Bayou Liberty and Bayou Bonfocua in Bonfocua. All the families were all involved in brick manufacturing and ship building.

After Arthur C Dale loses his father, he spends his childhood on the bayous with his mothers families. This is where Arthur Dale learned boat building. Which would lead to his patient on as shallow draft boat.

Later when Arthur was a teenager, Clementine and her son Arthur would live with Clementine’s sister Marie Amanda Galatas and her husband Francois Bildstein at 1730 Saint Phillip St. Jenny Maestri was 16yrs old at this time and lived just a few blocks away at 419 N Robertson Street in New Orleans. Francois Bildstein was a master engraver from France and after spending some time in New York settled in New Orleans his work in the late 1800’s at the Mascot Magazine is part of the New Orleans Historic Collection and used to give historians insight into the events of that period. One of his works is said to be the first depiction of a new art from coming out of the Big Easy called Jazz.

Francois Bildstein raised Arthur C. Dale, was his uncle but also his “father figure” and later his employer.
Arthur Dale was a master engraver and would become the shop foreman of Francois Bildstein’s company the “New Orleans Engraving and Electroplating Co.” which did much of the work for the Times-Picayune newspaper.

Arthur was shop foreman in 1910 then later secretary treasurer of the photo-engravers union in 1916, his half brother Jesse Bosq (also worked for F Bildstein) would become the president of the union in the 1930’s. Arthur was engraving for about 29 years for the New Orleans Engraving & Electro Printing Company.

Arthur marries Jenny Maestri on 9/11/1911 when he was 27 yrs old. Arthur and Jenny would have five children by 4/29/1929 before he was sent to DePaul’s Sanitarium May 1, 1930

After spending six years in DePaul’s Sanitarium, Arthur Dale was admitted on May 12, 1936 at 52 years old into Jackson, Louisiana
“State Insane Asylum”

In his medical records of admission into Louisiana State Hospital for the Insane Arthur makes several claims: “may family has turned against me, I want $68,000 back as my life time investment, you cannot do this to me I am from royalty and that last baby is not mine”.

The records go on to say he has grandiose ideas, very talkative but then again will not speak for weeks.
Jenny and his children do visit him on occasion, she never divorces Arthur and buries him in the family tomb.

I am told by the records keeper at the asylum, it is very unusual from someone to be there that long for alcoholism and that… IT WAS A VERY DARK PERIOD TO BE THERE.

Were he spends the rest of his life

He died on Dec 26, 1957.