Background
Patrick Roger Cleary was born in Nenagh in Ireland in 1858. After his parents" death when he was eight years old, the Tuthill family, his father"s employer, took in Cleary and his younger sister and gave them an English education.
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The children went from New York and to Hubbardston, Michigan and then completed grade school and high school within a total of four years. After he eventually attended Valparaiso University in Indiana studying business and particularly business penmanship which was very important before the invention of the typewriter.
Career
After graduating, he travelled around the area teaching penmanship after placing ads in local newspapers. In 1883 Cleary settled in Ypsilanti planning on teaching students at what is now Eastern Michigan University, and he started his first class in rented space. By 1885 he constructed a new school building and formed a Board of Trustees.
After his retirement in 1938 Cleary returned to his hometown in Ireland and drove around the nation.
He visited Éamon de Valera, Prime Minister of Ireland and the Irish legislature and then travelled around England where he was introduced in the House of Commons. After the War, Owen returned as president and then became a Republican politician in Michigan.
Patrick Cleary died in 1948 at age 90.
