William McCleary and Rebecca Swearingen

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Husband William McCleary ^{1 2}

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           Born: 10 Oct 1813 - Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA 1
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         Father: Ewing McCleary (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Katherine Brownfield (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 11 Jan 1838 1

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Wife Rebecca Swearingen ^{1 2}

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         Father: William Dawson Swearingen (1800-1868) 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Swearingen (      -1879) 2

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Children

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1 M Ewing McCleary ²

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2 F Elizabeth Dawson McCleary ^{1 2}

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         Spouse: Hon. Matthew G. Holmes (      -      ) 1 2

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3 F Catherine "Kate" McCleary ^{1 2}

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         Spouse: Warren W. Mitchell (      -      ) 1 2

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General Notes: Husband - William McCleary

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He attended Madison College when it was opened, and at the age of seventeen he apprenticed himself to William Crawford, of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, to learn the saddle and harness trade. He worked four years and four months, and in 1836 went to South Bend, Indiana, and started in business for himself. He sold out in the same year, and returned to his native county and became a clerk for his uncle, Colonel Ewing Brownfield. He continued in the general mercantile business at Uniontown until 1845, when he removed to Smithfield, and for twenty-three years was a leading and successful merchant of that section. He sold out in 1868 and returned to Uniontown, and engaged in the same business. He next took an interest in the coke company of Ewing, Boyd & Company, and in this venture he was quite unsuccessful. In 1881 he accepted the position of teller in the People's Bank, and discharged its duties until the spring of 1889.
He was elected captain, in 1843, of the Uniontown volunteers, and held the office for several years. He served from 1879 to 1882 as jury commissioner of Fayette County, being elected by the people.
William McCleary had a firm and abiding faith in the Christian religion, and was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church for nearly the third of a century.

1 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 197.

2 —, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 944.