Biography: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Henry B. PATCH ************************************************************************ Submitted by Kathy Grace, August 2004 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Henry B. Patch, who has attained to a position of local prominence as a professional teacher, is a native of Richland county, Wisconsin. He was born on August 3, 1876, and is the younger of two children born to Francis and Charlotte (Ladd) Patch, native of Ohio and Vermont, respectively. The parents settled on a farm in Richland county, Wisconsin, in 1862, and there made a home, where they still reside. Henry B. passed his boyhood on the farm and attended the district schools, then was graduated from the high school of Richland Center with the class of 1898 and two years later completed a course of study at the Oshkosh Normal School. After finishing his school studies, Mr. Patch turned his attention to teaching as principal of the state graded school at Eureka, in Winnebago county, where his eminent success brought him into prominence and led to his election as county superintendent of schools in the spring of 1907 as successor to Mr. George Overton. Mr. Patch is a born teacher and is in his profession from love of it. He is a careful and conscientious student, thoroughly up-to-date in his methods, with a wide scope of practical as well as theoretical knowledge and a clear understanding of human nature. He is a man of pleasing personality and wherever known is esteemed for his sterling, manly qualities of mind and heart. He is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Fraternal Reserve Association, and has filled various chairs in the lodges of each. On December 23, 1903, Mr. Patch married Miss Isabelle, daughter of James and Jeanette (Oliver) Temple, of Ripon, Wisconsin, who superior endowments qualify her in every way to be a worthy helpmate of her worthy husband. They have three children, named, respectively, Arthur, George and James. Transcribed from Lawson, Publius V. History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: its cities, towns, resources people. Chicago: C.F. Cooper and Company, 1908. v.2 p.1080.