JOYNES
JOYNES
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1859-80. He was married in March, 1861, to Car-
oline Walker Bosserman, of La Porte, Ind. He
was presiding elder of the East Lafayette dis-
trict, 1869-73, and represented liis conference in
the general conferences of 1880 and 1888. He
was transferred to
the Cincinnati con-
ference in 1880, was
pastor of St. Paul's
church, 1880-83 and
1886-1888. and of
Trinity church, Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, 1883-86.
He was a delegate to
the general confer-
ence of the Metho-
dist church of Can-
ada, 1886. He was
elected bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal
church by the gen-
eral conference of
1888, and was consecrated. May 29, 1888. He re-
sided at Chattanooga, Tenn., 1888-96, and was
chancellor of U.S. Grant university, Athens, and
Chattanooga, Tenn., 1891-96. He spent the year
1893 in Europe, presiding over the nine con-
ferences and inspecting the work of the various
missions of the Methodist church in the east.
In 1894 he had the charge of the work of the
church in Mexico. In 1896 he visited eastern
Asia, making two tours thi'ough Japan, Korea
and China, and j)residing over the conferences of
the church. He returned to America in 1898 by
the way of Malaysia and India. He changed his
home to Minneapolis, Minn., in 1896. He re-
ceived the honorary degree of A.M. from De
Pauw university in 1873, that of D.D. from Dick-
inson college in 1875, and that of LL.D. from the
University of the Pacific in 1891 .
JOYNES, Edward Southey, educator, was born in Accomac county, Va., March 2, 1834; son of Thomas R. and Anne Bell (Satchell) Joynes; grandson of Maj. Levin Joynes, of the Continental army, and a descendant of some of the earliest English settlers on the eastern shore of Virginia. He entered Delaware college in 1848, afterward studied in the celebrated Concord academy, Va., and was graduated from the Uni- versity of Virginia, A.B., 1852, A.M., 1853. He was assistant professor of ancient languages in the University of Virginia, 1853-56, and studied in Berlin, 1856-58. He was married in 1859 to Eliza Waller Vest, of Williamsburg, Pa. He was professor of Greek in the College of William and Mary, 1858-65; served in the Confederate war department, 1861-64; taught in Hollis insti- tute, Va., 1864-65; was professor of modern lan- guages in Washington college, Lexington, Va. ,
1866-75; helped to organize and was i)r()fessor in
Vanderbilt universit3% 1875-78; professor of Eng-
lish and modern languages and belles-lettres at
the University of Tennessee, 1878-83; professor
of English and modern languages in South Caro-
lina college, 1882-88,
and in 1888 was made
professor of modern
languages. He found-
ed and became a trus-
tee of the Winthrop
Normal and In-
dustrial College for
Women, Columbia,
S.C. He edited the
" Joynes-Otto " ser-
ies of text-books in
French and German
(1870-75); "Classic
French Plays " (2
vols., 1870-82), and
numerous other text-
books in French and German. He actively pro-
moted the public-school work of Virginia and
Tennessee, 1866-82, and subsequently that of
South Carolina. He received the honorary de-
gree of LL.D. from Delaware college in 1875, and
from the College of William and Mary in 1878.
He is the author of: Joynes- Meissner German
Grammar (1887); Minimum French Grammar
(1893), and several lectures and addresses on
educational topics.
JOYNES, Levin Smith, educator, was born near Onancock, Accomac county, Va., May 13, 1819; son of Thomas R. and Anne Bell (Satchell) Joynes, and grandson of Maj. Levin Joynes, of the Continental army, and a descendant of Eng- lish ancestors, who were among the earliest set- tlers in eastern Virginia. He was graduated from Washington college. Pa., A.B., 1835, and from the University of Virginia, M.D. 1839. He con- tinued the study of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in Dublin, Ireland, and in Paris, 1840-41. He practised his profession in Acco- mac, Va., 1843-44, and Baltimore, Md., 1844-46; was professor of phj'^siology and medical juris- prudence at Franklin Medical college, Philadel- phia, Pa., 1846-48; practised medicine in Ac- comac, Va., 1848-55, and was professor of the institutes of medicine and medical jurisprudence in the Medical College of Virginia at Richmond, 1855-71; dean of the medical faculty, 1857-71, and emeritus professor, 1871-81. He was married, Dec. 12, 1855, to Rosa F., daughter of Col. Thomas H. Bayly, and in 1858. to Susan V., daughter of Dr. R. Archer. He was assistant surgeon of the Virginia forces in the Confederate army in 1861. He was elected president of the Richmond Acad- emy of Medicine in 1866 and of the American
