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Author: George Washington Smith (1912)

   PHIL C. BARCLAY. A well-known figure in the insurance field, Phil C. Barclay,
of Cairo, is the manager for Southern Illinois of the Massachusetts Mutual Life
Insurance Company, and is the successor of the old firm of P. W. Barclay & Son,
which was originated by the senior Barclay in 1892 and conducted actively by him
until his death, in 1907. The Barclay family identified itself with Cairo in
1868, when P. W. and J. S. Barclay, his brother, engaged in the drug business as
wholesalers and retailers, and they continued therein until J. S. moved to Oak
Park, a suburb of Chicago, and continued the same business alone until his
death, in 1901.

   P. W. Barclay entered the insurance business late in life. His whole business
career had been given to merchandising, but he entered his new field with the
same zeal that had characterized his mercantile efforts, and he made his agency
a productive factor for this pioneer among life insurance companies. In 1897 his
son entered into partnership with him, and ten years later became the successor
of his worthy father. By nativity, this branch of the Barclay family were
Kentuckians, with a Virginia ancestry. P. W. Barclay was born at Russellville,
Kentucky, in 1832, and was a son of Hugh Barclay, who moved to that state as a
young man, established himself in a tanyard, and continued that industry while
in vigorous life. He married Miss Lou Ann Hall, and both died at Russellville,
having been the parents of nine children. The minority of P. W. Barclay was
spent about his father's tanyard and in gaining a fair education, and even as a
young man he became interested in drug work, making it an important part of his
life work. He was married to Miss Mary P. Crews, daughter of Rev. Hooper Crews,
of Chicago, but originally of Kentucky, a Methodist minister who spent more than
half a century in the pulpit. Mrs. Barclay passed away in 1896. To Mr. and Mrs.
P. W. Barclay were born the following children: Phil C.; Hugh, who died at
Tucson, Arizona, after spending some years in the government service in Porto
Rico; and Mrs. J. A. Naugle, of Cairo, whose husband was prominent in railroad
circles of Old Mexico for more than thirty years.

   Phil C. Barclay was educated in the schools of Cairo, and after completing
his education entered business with his father, in which he has continued to the
present time. He is a native of Chicago, and he was married at Versailles,
Kentucky, in September, 1881, to Miss Fannie Hinkle, a Cairo lady, daughter of
Jesse Hinkle, a native of Kentucky who lived for many years in Cairo, and later
went to Porterville, California, where Mr. Hinkle died. Mrs. Barclay's only
brother, Robert, died in Cairo in 1910.

   Mr. Barclay is a Master Mason and a member of the Elks Lodge of Cairo, and
his father was one of the prominent Masons of Illinois, being past grand
commander of the Knights Templar, past grand high priest of the chapter, and a
thirty-third degree Mason. Phil C. Barclay is a member of the Cairo Commercial
Club and is secretary of the Cairo Board of Trade. He is serving his second term
as one of the election commissioners of Cairo, has been three years a member of
the board of education, and is serving his second term as a member of the Public
Library board of directors. He is a popular member of the Alexander Club, the
popular social men's club of the city.


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Extracted from:

A HISTORY OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS

A Narrative Account of its Historical Progress, its People, and its Principal
Interests

BY
George Washington Smith, M. A.
VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED

THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 1912

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