Charles Frederick Barclay (May 9, 1844 – March 9, 1914) was a

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. Charles F. Barclay was born in

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. He moved with his parents to Pennsylvania in 1845. He attended the Painted Post High School and Coudersport Academy. He taught school for several years. During the Civil War, he enlisted as a private in Company K, One-Hundred and Forty-ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, in 1862 and served until 1865, when he was mustered out with the rank of captain. He attended Belfast Seminary,

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, and subsequently studied law at the

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, but never practiced. With an elder brother, he was engaged extensively in the lumber business in Sinnamahoning, Pennsylvania. He was a delegate to the

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. Barclay was elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1910. He engaged in business in

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, until his death in 1914. Interment in Wyside Cemetery in Sinnamahoning. Barclay Street in Manhattan is named in his honor.

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