Squire Thomas McCleary

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Husband Squire Thomas McCleary ¹

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         Father: John McCleary (      -      ) 1
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General Notes: Husband - Squire Thomas McCleary

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He was a prominent man in the northern part of Butler County, Pennsylvania.

Thomas McCleary taught school in a house on the Mortimer farm about 1813-14. From all accounts, McCleary (afterward well known as Squire McCleary) was a schoolmaster of unusual severity of manner, without that suavity of appearance which was regarded as necessary to members of his profession. He was accustomed to keep at hand a "cat o' nine tails" made of buckskin, and whenever a scholar was caught offending, this formidable weapon was thrown at him, accompanied by the command, "Bring that here, sir." The trembling culprit of course obeyed, and the reader can imagine the next act of the performance.

1 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 340.