Barclay, Samuel Moore, 1802-1852 or 1853

Pennsylvania lawyer and legislator (1831-1840).

Samuel M. Barclay was born in Bedford, Pennsylvania, on October 17, 1802, to Hugh and Hetty Barclay. Hugh Barclay was an early landowner in Bedford and began working as the town's postmaster in 1789. Samuel’s father died in 1807, leaving his mother to raise him. He studied at the Bedford Academy before his admission to the bar in August 1826. He worked as an attorney in Bedford and served as a state senator in the late 1830s. He married Anna Morrison in 1839, and died in Philadelphia on January 3, 1852.

Born in 1802, Barclay practiced law in Bedford, Bedford County, Pennsylvania.

Some prominent Bedford County residents read law in his offices, including his nephew, John Young Barclay, and another prominent Bedford citizen, John Cessna. During 1833, Samuel Barclay served in the Pennsylvania General Assembly as a Representative from Bedford County. He died in 1852.

Samuel Moore Barclay, the youngest son of Hugh and Hetty Barclay, was born in October 1802. He was educated at the Bedford Academy and, after leaving school, worked in the office of his brother Josiah. He passed the Bedford, Pennsylvania, bar and by 1828 was practicing law with a partner, Francis B. Murdoch, Esq. Barclay's brother, John Young Barclay (1798-1841), was also a lawyer, in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Samuel Barclay married Ann Eliza Sophia Morrison on January 3, 1839; she died on November 26, 1839 at the age of nineteen. Barclay may have been married several times, although solid evidence does not exist.

Barclay practiced law in Bedford, Bedford County, Pennsylvania. Some prominent Bedford County residents read law in his offices, including his brother, John Young Barclay, and another prominent Bedford citizen, John Cessna. During 1833, Samuel Barclay served in the Pennsylvania General Assembly as a Representative from Bedford County.

Samual Barclay was one of the main supporters of the New Jerusalem, or Swedenborgian church in Bedford, Pennsylvania.

Samuel Moore Barclay died on January 3, 1852 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.