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Subject: [IAHENRY] Henry Co. Bio-Joseph Patch
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:21:03 EST

>From "Portrait and Biographical Album of Henry County, Iowa" Chicago: Acme
Publishing Company, 1888.

Page 333:

JOSEPH T. PATCH, attorney-at-law, has been a resident of Mt. Pleasant since
December, 1869, and has been engaged in practice since February, 1876. He was
born in Rutland County, Vt., Sept. 25, 1838, and is a son of Abram and Lydia
(Tucker) Patch. His father was born in Groton, now a suburb of Boston, Mass.
His mother was a native of Rutland County, Vt. On the paternal side, the
famly had been residents of New England since the advent of the "Mayflower", on
which historic vessel the first Patch came to the New World. His mother was
also a descendant of one of the old Colonial families of Massachusetts. In his
father's family there were two sons and three daughters. His brother is Joel
V.D. Patch, a portrait painter living at Monroe, Iowa; the oldest sister was
Lydia J., who died at the age of seventeen; Arethusia is the wife of Hon. E.C.
Calkins, a prominent attorney of Kearney, Neb.; the youngest, Orvilla, died
aged sixteen; the subject of this sketch was the eldest of the family. When he
was seven years of age his parents removed to Erie County, N.Y. He attended
the Ellington Academy, in Chautauqua County, N.Y., for two years when he entered
Union College at Schenectady, N.Y., then under the presidency of the
celebrated Dr. Nott. After completing his junior year he left college and engaged in
teaching school, following the profession for several years in the States of
New York and Ohio. In 1863 Mr. Patch entered the law department of Michigan
University at Ann Arbor, and graduated thence in 1865. That summer he went to
Polk County, Mo., and was for one year Principal of the academy at Bolivar, in
that county. The following year he practiced law in Hickory County, Mo., and
in 1867 took a trip which led to his settling in Mt. Pleasant. In 1869 Mr.
Patch began working at carpentering, at which he continued until 1876, when he
resumed the practice of his profession in Mt. Pleasant, following it to the
present time and also making a specialty of Government claims, at which he has
been very successful.

September 28, 1869, Mr. Patch was married at Mt. Pleasant to Miss Mary E.
Vernon, only daughter of Rev. J.B. Vernon, a pioneer of Henry County. She was
born in Montgomery County, Ind. They have three children living, one boy and
two girls, and have lost a daughter, Olivia M., who died at the age of seven
years. The other children are: Mary Edna, aged thirteen; Leroy Vernon, twelve;
and Alline L., four. Mr. and Mrs. Patch are members of the First Methodist
Episcopal Church in Mt. Pleasant. In politics he is a Republican, and socially
is a worthy and estimable gentleman.

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Pat Ryan White
Camarillo, CA

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