Hillsborough County FlArchives Biographies.....Patch, Clarence L. August 22, 1882 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.128  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present                

        CLARENCE L. PATCH.  On April 1, 1922, CLARENCE L. PATCH rounded out 
twenty-one years of consecutive service in the Tampa Post Office. It is a long
and honorable record, and unusual in the Postal Service. Mr. Patch for a number
of years has been assistant postmaster, and he has an exact knowledge of every
detail connected with this department of the Federal Government in Tampa.
	Mr. Patch has lived in Florida since boyhood. He was born at Smyrna, 
Michigan, August 22, 1882, son of ELMER A. and CARRIE (DOLLY) PATCH. His 
maternal grandfather was a physician at Smyrna. ELMER PATCH was born in Ionia, 
Michigan, and is now living at Muncie, Indiana. The mother died at the age of 
fifty-eight.
	CLARENCE L. PATCH is the oldest of five children, three of whom are
living. He attended school in Michigan and finished his education at Orlando,
Florida, where he arrived November 19, 1896, when a boy of fourteen. In the
fall of 1899 he came to Tampa, and on April 1, 1901, at the age of eighteen, he
began his service in the Tampa Post Office, at first as clerk, later as
foreman, and in 1917 was raised to the grade of assistant postmaster.
	On November 7, 1905, Mr. Patch married Miss PEARL NASH, daughter of 
Rev. C. H. NASH, a retired Baptist minister of Tampa. They have five daughters: 
THELMA, CAROL, HELEN, MARJORIE and DORIS. Mr. Patch is affiliated with John 
Darling Lodge Number 154, F. and A. M., at Tampa, Prospect Lodge No. 38, 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a member of the Civitan Club, the Palm
Avenue Baptist Church, and in politics is a republican.


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