Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Barclay, J. M. 1822 - 
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J. M. BARCLAY, lumberman; has been a resident of La Crosse since November, 
1856. He was born in Lyons, Wayne Co., N. Y., in 1822; in the fall of 1853, he 
removed to La Porte, Ind., and came from there to La Crosse. He is a 
blacksmith by trade, and, in 1857, he bought a shop in La Crosse, and carried 
on the business till 1859, then sold out, and, in the summer of 1860, in 
company with Bantam, built a plow-shop on Third street, opposite the court 
house, and carried on the business under the firm name of Barclay & Bantam for 
two years; then sold out his interest and worked one year for the Packet 
Company, making repairs. He then went to St. Paul and started a shop for the 
St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Company, and worked there two seasons. In the 
spring of 1865, he again went into the plow business in company with A. 
Hirshheimer, who also owned with him a one-half interest in a saw-mill at 
Lansing, Iowa. In January, 1880, they dissolved partnership, he taking the 
lumber business and Mr. H. the plow business. Has only one child - John 
Clayton, now in the lumber business in Lansing, Iowa. Mrs. Barclay was Rhoda 
S. Congor, of Cortland, N. Y.

Additional Comments:
From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 736.

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