Richard DeCharms Barclay was an attorney in the president's office of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. in Philadelphia. He also served on the Pennsylvania Board of Prison Inspectors.
Barclay graduated from Lafayette College in Eaton in 1856 and practiced law in Bedford for a few years before going to work in 1863 as personal secretary for Thomas A. Scott, then vice president of the railroad. Scott became the railroad's president in 1874.
Barclay died at his summer home, Mayview, located in Bryn Mawr. His wife, Mary, survived him.
Sources: Obituary in the Bedford Gazette and profile in the Lafayette College alumni catalog.
Barclay graduated from Lafayette College in Eaton in 1856 and practiced law in Bedford for a few years before going to work in 1863 as personal secretary for Thomas A. Scott, then vice president of the railroad. Scott became the railroad's president in 1874.
Barclay died at his summer home, Mayview, located in Bryn Mawr. His wife, Mary, survived him.
Sources: Obituary in the Bedford Gazette and profile in the Lafayette College alumni catalog.
Richard DeCharms Barclay was an attorney in the president's office of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. in Philadelphia. He also served on the Pennsylvania Board of Prison Inspectors.
Barclay graduated from Lafayette College in Eaton in 1856 and practiced law in Bedford for a few years before going to work in 1863 as personal secretary for Thomas A. Scott, then vice president of the railroad. Scott became the railroad's president in 1874.
Barclay died at his summer home, Mayview, located in Bryn Mawr. His wife, Mary, survived him.
Sources: Obituary in the Bedford Gazette and profile in the Lafayette College alumni catalog.
Barclay graduated from Lafayette College in Eaton in 1856 and practiced law in Bedford for a few years before going to work in 1863 as personal secretary for Thomas A. Scott, then vice president of the railroad. Scott became the railroad's president in 1874.
Barclay died at his summer home, Mayview, located in Bryn Mawr. His wife, Mary, survived him.
Sources: Obituary in the Bedford Gazette and profile in the Lafayette College alumni catalog.
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