Biography of
Guy Carleton Barclay
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GUY CARLETON BARCLAY.
Noteworthy
among the active and valued citizens of Carlyle is Guy
Carleton Barclay, who was widely known to the traveling public as agent
for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, a position for which he was eminently fitted,
and in which he gave the utmost satisfaction to all concerned during the years
of his service, which he terminated in March, 1912. A son of James Barclay, Jr.,
he was born May 28, 1859, in Weston, Platte county, Missouri, of Southern
ancestry.
His grandfather, James Barclay,
was for many years a prominent resident of Paris, Kentucky, where he carried on
a thriving business as a dealer in live stock, making frequent
trips with boat loads of horses from Louisville to New Orleans. On one of his
business journeys he was stricken with yellow fever, which caused his death in 1830. His widow
died three years later, in 1833, during a siege of cholera which in that year
devastated the country.
Born in Paris, Kentucky, October 10, 1821,
James
Barclay, Jr.,
was left an orphan in boyhood. He was educated principally in Georgetown,
Kentucky, and after his graduation from Georgetown Academy, at the age of
sixteen years, he began teaching school, and followed that profession for
several years. He was afterwards manager and proprietor of the Georgetown Hotel
for some time. Migrating to Missouri in 1859 with his family, he spent a brief
time in St. Louis, and then went to Weston, Missouri, where he represented a
large mercantile house, having charge of its branch store at that place. Coming
from there to Carlyle, Illinois, in 1860, he was the first publisher of the
Carlyle Constitution,
and for a number of years was superintendent of
the Carlyle schools, a position that he also filled in Cape Girardeau, Missouri,
in 1873 and 1874. He was a noted educator, especially brilliant in mathematics,
a branch that he often taught in county institutes. He died in 1900, just one
week after the death of his loved wife. He was a Democrat in politics and a
member of the Ancient Free & Accepted Masons. He married in 1842 Miss Elizabeth
Jones, of Georgetown, Kentucky,
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and to them five children were
born, as follows: Sarah, the wife of Edwin Fink;
May, now a physician in
Carlyle; Guy, of this sketch; Lina, living in St Louis; and Lalee,
deceased.
Spending his earlier days in
Carlyle, Guy Carleton Barclay acquired his preliminary education in the public
schools of this city, completing his studies in the normal school at Cape
Girardeau, Missouri. On returning with the family to Carlyle, he was for a time
in the employ of Lafey Brothers as bookkeeper, but he afterwards engaged in the
railroad business, in February, 1880, being appointed agent for the Ohio &
Mississippi Railroad, now known as the Southwestern branch of the Baltimore &
Ohio. As stated in a previous paragraph, Mr. Barclay severed his connection
with the Baltimore & Ohio in March, 1912.
Politically
Mr. Barclay is a
Democrat. He is especially interested in advancing the educational interests of
city and county, and for the past eighteen years he has been a member of the
Carlyle board of education. He has labored wisely in the interests of the
public schools, and was largely instrumental in securing the site for the
present beautiful school building of the city, and in causing its subsequent
erection.
Mr. Barclay married in 1886 Miss
Annie Lietez, a daughter of Hon. Frederick A. Lietez, of Carlyle, and to them
five children have been born, namely: Guy C., Jr., Anna Lietes, Emma E.,
Robert H. and Paul C. Fraternally Mr. Barclay is a member of the Masonic order.
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