James Lent Barclay
James Lent Barclay | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 5, 1848 |
| Died | July 2, 1925 (aged 76) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Columbia College |
| Spouses | |
| Children | Adelaide Barclay |
| Parent(s) | Henry Barclay Sarah Ann Moore |
| Relatives | Thomas Henry Barclay (great oncle) Isaac Bell Jr. (brother-in-law) |
James Lent Barclay (October 5, 1848 – July 2, 1925) was an American member of New York society during the Gilded Age.[1]
Early life[edit]
Barclay was born on October 5, 1848, in Newtown on Long Island.[2] He was the third child and second son of four children born to Henry Barclay (1794–1863) and Sarah Ann Moore (1809–1873).[3] His siblings were Henry Anthony Barclay (1844–1905),[4] Fannie Barclay (1846–1922), and Sackett Moore Barclay (1850–1918).[3][5]
His maternal grandfather was Daniel Sackett Moore.[3] His paternal great oncle is Thomas Henry Barclay (1753–1830).
Career[edit]
Barclay attended Columbia University.[1] He is recorded as matriculating with the class of 1870, but it is unsure if he finished the degree.[6] He was president of the Barclay Realty Company which was located at 299 Broadway in Manhattan.[7] The company managed his family's extensive real estate holdings, generally located near Barclay Street, named for his ancestors.[1]
Society life[edit]
In 1892, both Barclay and his wife Olivia were included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in The New York Times.[8] Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom.[9]
He was a member of the Union Club, of which he was a governor, Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, Meadow Brook Golf Club, and the Southampton Club.[1]
Personal life[edit]
Barclay was married to Olivia Mott Bell (1855–1894).[10] She was the daughter of Isaac Bell and Adelaide (née Mott) Bell,[11] and the sister of Isaac Bell Jr. (1846–1889), the businessman and diplomat.[12] Before her death, they were the parents of one daughter:[2]
- Adelaide Mott Barclay (b. 1884), who married Algernon "Algy" K. Boyesen (b. 1880),[13][14] a dramatist who was part of the Lafayette Flying Corps and was the son of Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, in 1903.[15][16] She later married Carlos G. Mayer.[17] Adelaide was the mother of Olivia Barclay Boyesen, who married Dudley William Persse (1901–1976) of the Royal Artillery in 1928,[18] and Allardyce Barclay Boyesen, who married Philippe Hottinguer, the son of Baron Henri Hottinguer, in 1931.[19]
After the death of his first wife in 1894, he married Priscilla Palmer Dixon (1851–1924),[20] the widow of Thomas Chalmers Sloane (1847–1890) of the W. & J. Sloane Company, on April 16, 1896, at her home on West 51st Street in Manhattan.[2] She was the daughter of Courtlandt Palmer Dixon (1817–1883) and Hannah Elizabeth (née Williams) Dixon (1817–1888), a cousin of U.S. Representative and Senator Nathan F. Dixon III, a niece of Nathan F. Dixon II, and a granddaughter of U.S. Senator Nathan Fellows Dixon.[20]
Barclay died at his home, 15 West 48th Street in New York on July 2, 1925.[21] He was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.[1]
Residence[edit]
Barclays owned a six-acre estate in Southampton, New York, with a 13,000 square foot Colonial Revival home. The home was later owned by producer Martin Richards and Mary Lea Johnson Richards.[22]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e "JAMES L. BARCLAY DIES AT 71 YEARS | Member of Old New York Family, Head of Realty Company and Member of Union Club". The New York Times. 4 July 1925. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ^ a b c Harvey, Oscar Jewell (1899). The Harvey Book: Giving the Genealogies of Certain Branches of the American Families of Harvey, Nesbitt, Dixon and Jameson, and Notes on Many Other Families, Together with Numerous Biographical Sketches. E.B. Yordy & Company. p. 500. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ^ a b c Moffat, R. Burnham (1904). The Barclays of New York: Who They Are And Who They Are Not,--And Some Other Barclays. R. G. Cooke. p. 116. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ^ "HENRY A. BARCLAY DIES AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS; Associate of Bonner and Others in Raising American Horses. OWNED BONNIE BRAEAT LENOX He Came of One of the Oldest Knickerbocker Families -- A Founder of Well-Known Clubs". The New York Times. 9 March 1905. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ^ Burke, Arthur Meredyth (1908). The Prominent Families of the United States of America. Genealogical Publishing Com. p. 343. ISBN 9780806313085. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ^ Catalogue of Matriculants who Have Not Graduated, 1758-1897. New York City: Columbia University. 1897. p. 25.
- ^ "THE REAL ESTATE FIELD; James L. Barclay Sells West Forty-eighth Street Dwelling For More Than Double the Original Cost -- Investor Buys East Harlem Apartment -- Bronx and Suburban Deals". The New York Times. January 16, 1913. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ^ McAllister, Ward (16 February 1892). "THE ONLY FOUR HUNDRED | WARD M'ALLISTER GIVES OUT THE OFFICIAL LIST. HERE ARE THE NAMES, DON'T YOU KNOW, ON THE AUTHORITY OF THEIR GREAT LEADER, YOU UNDER- STAND, AND THEREFORE GENUINE, YOU SEE" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
- ^ Keister, Lisa A. (2005). Getting Rich: America's New Rich and How They Got That Way. Cambridge University Press. p. 36. ISBN 9780521536677. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
- ^ "DIED. Barclay". The New York Times. 1894. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ^ "ISAAC BELL PASSES AWAY; The Well-Known Business Man, Philanthropist, and Public Spirited Citizen Is Dead. HE HAD A NOTABLE CAREER Was One of the Leading Cotton Merchants the First Commissioner of Charities and Correction, and Prominent in Other Ways". The New York Times. 1 October 1897. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
- ^ "Isaac Bell, Jr". The New York Times. 21 January 1889. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
- ^ "The Club-fellow: The Society Journal of New York and Chicago". Club-Fellow Publishing Company. 1905. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "WHAT IS DOING IN SOCIETY". The New York Times. 23 October 1903. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ^ "MARRIAGE STARTLES SOCIETY.; Algernon K. Boyesen and Miss Barclay Were Wedded Ten Days Before Public Announcement of Engagement". The New York Times. 7 October 1903. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ^ "Form". Form: An Illustrated Weekly Pub. Every Sat. In the Interests of American Society at Home and Abroad. I (1): 13. October 25, 1913. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ^ Social Register, New York. Social Register Association. 1917. p. 453. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ^ "OLIVIA BARCLAY TO WED.; Daughter of Mrs. Carlos Mayer Engaged to Captain William Persse". The New York Times. 31 May 1928. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ^ "ALLARDYCE BARCLAY ENGAGED TO MARRY; Her Troth to Philippe Hottinguer Announced by Her Mother Mrs. Carlos G. Mayer. HE IS PARIS BANKER'S SON Both Bride-Elect and Her Flance Are Descendants of Old New York Families". The New York Times. 3 July 1931. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ^ a b "Mrs. Priscilla Barclay". The New York Times. 18 May 1924. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ^ "DIED. Barclay". The New York Times. 4 July 1925. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ^ Lewis, Christiana S. N. (January 5, 2008). "For sale: Estate in Hamptons, $65 million". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 27 October 2017.