Draft:Shephard Barclay

Shephard Barclay (November 3, 1847 – November 17, 1925) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri from 1889 to 1898.

"[B]orn in St. Louis, November 3, 1847, and is a descendant of an old and prominent family of that city. He was thoroughly educated in the local public and high schools; was graduated at the St. Louis University in 1867, and at the Law Department of the University of Virginia in 1869. He spent two sessions at the University of Berlin in the study of the civil law, and incidentally acquired a good knowledge of foreign languages. He began the practice of his profession in 1872, and was exceedingly thorough in the preparation of his cases. ... In 1882 he was elected one of the circuit judges of the city of St. Louis, and in 1888 the bar of that city strongly urged his candidacy to the supreme bench."