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BARCLAY, Andrina Catherine
July 17, 1934; Oregonian, p 6
"Pioneer Daughter Dies"
Oregon City, Or., July 16

Miss Katie Barclay, 82, the last surviving child of the late Dr. Forbes Barclay and Maria Pambrun Barclay, early Oregon pioneers who settled in Oregon City in 1850, died today at the Oregon City hospital.

Her death removes one of the few persons who remember Dr. John McLoughlin and who recalled incidents of early days in the Oregon country, with which her forefathers' lives were closely linked. Her father, a native of the Shetland islands, entered the service of the Hudson's Bay company on July 4, 1839, and sailed for Fort Vancouver, where he remained until 1850. In 1842 he married Maria Pambrun, whose father, Pierre Pambrun, had charge of Fort Walla Walla. Dr. McLoughlin, Dugald McTavish, David McLaughlin and Adolph Lee Lewis were witnesses at the wedding of Miss Barclay's parents.

In a picturesque spot overlooking the Willamette river at Oregon City, Miss Barclay's father selected the site for the mansion which he built in 1850 at a cost of $17,000. It was in that house that Andrina Catherine (Katie) Barclay was born on January 26, 1852. She spent her entire lifetime, with the exception of a few trips into California and to other places of interest, within that house, which has housed five generations of Barclays.

Miss Barclay was the last of seven children, John James, Peter, Alexander Forbes, Harriet Maria (Pratt), William Charles and Edmond.

Miss Barclay was graduated from the Oregon City seminary on June 28, 1870.

Miss Barclay's only survivors are a nephew, Forbes Barclay Pratt of Portland; three nieces, Mrs. J. Nelson Wisner (Hattie Mary Pratt) of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Mrs. Jack Miles (Dolly Pratt) of Bonneville, and Miss Cis Barclay Pratt of Oregon City, who has been her companion in her last years.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock from St. John's Catholic church, followed by interment in the family plot in Mountain View cemetery.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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