Thomas Johnston Barclay and Rebecca Kuhns

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Husband Thomas Johnston Barclay ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1824 - Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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           Died: 24 Aug 1881 1
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         Father: John Young Barclay (1798-1841) 3
         Mother: Isabella Johnston (Abt 1800-1841) 2

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       Marriage: 5 Sep 1854 1

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Wife Rebecca Kuhns ¹

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           Born:  - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA
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           Died:  - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA
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         Father: Hon. Joseph Henry Kuhns (1800-Aft 1882) 4
         Mother: Margaret Elizabeth Alexander (1800-1850) 4 5 6

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Children

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1 M Thomas Barclay ²

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2 F Hettie Barclay ⁷

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         Spouse: John Martin Jamison (1864-      ) 8 9
           Marr: 1 Feb 1893 7

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Johnston Barclay

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He was born in the same house in which he died. For nearly half a century he was one of the chief business men of Greensburg, Pennsylvania. After the death of his father he was the oldest of the minor children, who were taken to the house of their grandfather, Alexander Johnston, at Kingston. They remained there, and Thomas attended the Greensburg Academy in its halcyon days, and completed his classical education at Jefferson College, at Cannonsburg. He then studied law under the late Hon. Henry Donnell Foster, and had the use of his deceased father's large law library, his father having been a lawyer of prominence. At the August term of court in 1844 (in his twentieth year) he was admitted to the Westmoreland bar. In November following (when he had not yet reached his majority) he was appointed district attorney for the county, which position he held several years. He went to the Mexican war as second sergeant under Capt. John W. Johnston in the Second Pennsylvania Regiment. He was afterwards promoted to the first lieutenancy. After the war he was treasurer of Westmoreland County for two years. In 1854 he abandoned the law and became a banker, becoming in a few years one of the leading bankers in western Pennsylvania. He was a great factor in the politics of the county, and while he never made any public demonstrations, yet his advice and counsel were always sought in important political campaigns, and in 1879 he was chairman of the Democratic County Committee.
He, like his father, was a man of six feet three inches high, with a rugged constitution. He died suddenly, after a few days' illness. His funeral was conducted by Rev. J. B. Jennings, of the Episcopal Church, with the following pall-bearers: John Armstrong, Jas. Gregg, J. A. Marchand, John W. Turney, Col. James Armstrong, Leopold Furtwangler, and Lewis Trauger.

He and his wife had ten children, all but one of whom were living in 1882.

1 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 524.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. I (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 350.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. I (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 349.

4 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 329.

5 Wm. H. Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Lane S. Hart, Publisher, 1884), Pg 21.

6 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 246.

7 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 150.

8 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 37.

9 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 149.