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Gautier works of the Cambria Iron company until 1889. In 1888 he removed to Roxbury and has resided there ever since. The Barclay family certainly did its patriotic duty in that crisis extending from 1860 to 1865, in which the life of the nation was threatened; for, in addition to serving ten months as quartermaster in the Army of the Potomac, he has five brothers who saw duty in that memorable conflict. Mr. Barclay was a strong anti-slavery man and abolitionist, hence upon the organization of the Republican party he became one of its original supporters, and has continued to vote with his first love to the present time, believing that upon the whole, it stands for those principles and has advocated those measures best adapted to the needs of the country, and in 1894, upon the organization of the municipal government of the borough of Roxbury, was chosen it first burgess, and is a director and member of the executive committee of the Roxbury Park association. On January 5, 1855, he married Mary, a daughter of Michael Barnhart, and to this union have been born eleven children, seven boys and four girls, of whom four boys and three girls are yet living.
GEORGE W. BOWMAN, an industrious farmer of Reade township, this county, is a son of Benjamin and Barbara (Gaff) Bowman, and was born in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1831. |
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acres of farm land, partially improved, where he resided until 1850, when he was killed by a runaway horse, at the age of fifty-two years. By trade he was a plasterer. For several years previous to moving to Cambria county he followed boating, having charge of a section boat running from Philadelphia to Pittsburg. He was a consistent member of the Presbyterian church, and in politics a democrat. Their marriage resulted in the birth of nine children: James J., a blacksmith in Allemansville, Clearfield county; Sarah Ann, who died in childhood; John M., a printer of Everett, Pennsylvania, editor of the Everett Republican; Nancy J., deceased, who was the wife of Rev. Thomas Van Scoyoc, of Mountaindale, this county; George W.; Susan Catherine, the wife of John Van Scoyoc, of Reade township; Samuel M., a farmer at Mountaindale; Jacob G., also a farmer of Mountaindale; and Mary E., wife of Benjamin F. Byers of Coalport, Clearfield county. George W. Bowman was educated in the common schools of Mifflin county. After his father's death he purchased the one-half interest in the farm from his brother James, and took charge of it, and has since remained on this farm. It contains about one hundred acres, and is underlaid with coal. In March, 1864, he gave up the life of a farmer for the trials of a soldier, and enlisted in company D, One Hundred and Eighty-fourth regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer infantry, and served until the close of the war. He took part in the following battles: Prospect Hill, Cold Harbor, where he was wounded in the left hip by a mortar shell; two engagements at Deepbottom, on the James River, and Reams' Station, on the Weldon railroad, where he was detailed, and drove a medical supply team until the close of the war. On receiving his |
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