History of Michigan, / by Charles Moore. [Vol. 3]

HISTORY OF MICHIGAN

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I868. His parents were Rev. Orin Drew and Emma Louise (Christie)
Patch. His father, a native of New Hampshire, was for a long period
of years an active minister of the Baptist church, having come west at
an early day and filling pulpits in Illinois and Ohio, but finally returned
east and died in Greenville, Rhode Island, in I912. His wife was a native
of Vermont, and died in Manchester, New Hampshire, in I904.
Charles Patch spent his youth in a number of different localities, acquiring his education in the public schools of Cleveland, Ohio, at Greenville, Rhode Island, at the high school in Lewiston, Maine, and in the
Cleveland Law School. His attention was directed from the profession
of law to business, and in I888 he became cashier of the Cleveland Provision Company, remaining with that concern two years. His banking
experience began in 1890 as teller of the Woodland Avenue Savings &
Loan Company of Cleveland, and he was with that institution five years.
In 1895 Mr. Patch became teller of the Cleveland Trust Company, and
was successively assistant secretary, secretary and treasurer and vicepresident. His active relations covering a period of fourteen years,
until I909, which year marked his removal to Detroit in order to take
up his duties as vice-president of the Security Trust Company. This
position has brought him into prominence in banking circles in Detroit
and in the state at large.
Mr. Patch is a member of the Episcopal church, and belongs to the
Detroit, the Detroit Country, the Hunt, the Bankers and Union Clubs,
the last being in Cleveland. On June 25, 1896, Mr. Patch married Mary
Seymour Greene of Cleveland; they have one son, Charles Patch, Jr.
CHARLES G. SHERWOOD. As manager of the Traverse City flouring
mills of the Hannah-Lay Company, one of the greatest of the industrial
corporations of Northern Michigan, and as a man of such marked executive ability and sterling character that he has been called upon to accord
service in many other capacities of distinctive trust and responsibility,
Mr. Sherwood has secure vantage place as one of the representative citizens of Grand Traverse county and his progressiveness has been potent
not only in connection with the business activities with which he has
been identified but also in touching those things that tend to advance the
social and material welfare of the community in general.
Charles Grant Sherwood claims the fine old Keystone State as the
place of his nativity, and the family of which he is a representative was
early founded in America, the lineage being traced back to fine English
origin. Mr. Sherwood was born on the old homestead farm of his
father, in Waterford township, Erie county, Pennsylvania, where he was
ushered into the world on the 7th of June, 1865. He is a son of Frederick
W. and Mary M. (Fellows) Sherwood, both of whom were born and
reared in the state of New York, where their marriage was solemnized
and whence they soon afterward removed to Erie county, Pennsylvania,
where the father became a substantial agriculturist and a citizen of influence in his community. Both he and his wife continued their residence
in Pennsylvania until the close of their long and worthy lives, Mr. Sherwood having passed away in I905, at the age of eighty years, and his
widow having been summoned to the life eternal in I913, at the venerable
age of eighty-four years. Both were earnest and consistent members of
the Methodist Episcopal church and their lives were replete with kindly
thoughts and kindly deeds. They afforded to their children excellent educational advantages, and the gracious influences of the home will ever be
cherished by their sons and daughters, who revere the memory of the
loved and devoted parents. Of the six children the subject of this
review was the fourth in order of birth.