History of Bay County, Michigan, and representative citizens; . giment, Col. Charles Webbs, which wentinto camp at Peekskill. He retired in the springof 1781 and was bre\-eted colonel, and he be-came a member of the Connecticut Society ofthe Order of the Cincinnati. The parents of Major Leavenworth wereRev. Mark and Ruth (Peck) former was born August ,at Strat-ford, Connecticut, and died at \\aterbury, Con-necticut, August 27, 1799. He graduated atYale College in 1737 and was ordained andsettled as pastor of the church at Waterbury,where he continued until his decease. O
History of Bay County, Michigan, and representative citizens; . giment, Col. Charles Webbs, which wentinto camp at Peekskill. He retired in the springof 1781 and was bre\-eted colonel, and he be-came a member of the Connecticut Society ofthe Order of the Cincinnati. The parents of Major Leavenworth wereRev. Mark and Ruth (Peck) former was born August ,at Strat-ford, Connecticut, and died at \\aterbury, Con-necticut, August 27, 1799. He graduated atYale College in 1737 and was ordained andsettled as pastor of the church at Waterbury,where he continued until his decease. On Feb-ruary 6, 1740, he married Ruth Peck, a daugh-ter of Jeremiah Peck of Waterbury. The father of Rev. Mark Leavenworth wasDr. Thomas Leavenworth, who in 1699 mar-ried Mary Jenkins, daughter of David Jenkinsand settled at Stratford. Connecticut. Hisfather, Edmund Leavenworth, emigrated fromGermany to America and settled at Hunting-ton, then a part of Waterbury, prior to 1680. The early childhood of our subject wasspent at Detroit, but the earlv death of his. PATRICK KEATING, Sr. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS. 563 mother ;;nd the enforced absence of his fatherbroke up tlie home and he went to live with hisgrandparents, with whom he remained as theirown son until their decease. After completingthe common school course, he attended theUniversity of Michigan and upon his returnbegan to learn the lumber business. He beganat the bottom of the ladder and worked his wayup through the various positions until he be-came secretary of the company whose employhe had entered in the humblest position. In1895 lis became president of the Kern Manu-facturing Company and filled that position until1898 when he entered the employ of the Michi-gan Sugar Company. He continued with thiscompany until its combination with the Bay CitySugar Company, at which time he accepted hispresent responsible place as secretary of theGerman-American Sugar Company. This company was incorporated February18, 1901, with
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