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. |