- STANLEY H. JOINER. This influential farmer of La Prairie
township, Rock County, justice of
- the peace, and town clerk , is one of the oldest settlers
of the county, and is justly regarded as one whose mind and heart
are in sympathy with his fellow men, and whose counsel it is
always safe to follow. If one were to inquire into the causes
which give men personalities of especial usefulness, account
would have to be taken, in this instance, of Mr. JOINER's ancestry.
Both his grandfathers were soldiers of the war of 1812. His maternal
great-grandfather, Lieut. Abraham LOCKE, was an officer in the
Revolutionary war. The achievements of the family have made it
possible to trace the lineage back to a remote period in history.
- The LOCKE family is known in this country back to William
LOCKE, a mariner of the County
- of Suffolk, Stepney Parish, one of the largest subdivisions
of London, England. The earliest representative in America was
Deacon William, who was born in December, 1628, and in 1634,
when an orphan boy of six years, was brought to America in the
ship "Planter," settling in Woburn, Mass. Stanley H.
JOINER, our subject, has the coat of arms of the LOCKE family,
which was probably granted to Sir William LOCKE for his exploit
at Dunkerque, France, in tearing down the Pope's bull of ex-communication
against the King, a deed then hazardous as the storming of a
castle, on account of the temporal power of the Pope and the
loyalty of the masses to him. It is believed that Sir William
LOCKE was the son of John LOCKE, who was sheriff of London in
1461. If so, the ancestry can be traced to Thomas LOCKE, of Merton
Abbey, 1291.
- The immediate paternal ancestors of our subject were Harvey
R. JOINER, his father; and Erastus
- JOINER, his grandfather, a farmer of New York State, who
reared a large family, and lived to a good old age. The immediate
maternal ancestry is traced as follows: (I) Daniel LOCKE, a weaver,
and Abigail, his wife; (II) Dr. Daniel and Mary LOCKE; (III)
Lieut. Abraham and Hannah LOCKE, our subject's great-grandparents,
Vermont farming people; (IV) Daniel LOCKE, his grandfather, a
native of Vermont, and a farmer of New York State, who had a
large family and lived to a ripe old age; and (V) Mary (LOCKE)
JOINER, our subject's mother.
- Harvey R. JOINER, our subject's father, was born Jan. 25,
1815, in New York State, there
- married Mary LOCKE, and in 1855 came to Wisconsin, locating
in Bradford township, Rock County, and ten years later moving
to La Prairie township, where he bought a farm of 106 acres in
Section 1. This he improved and operated until 1891, in which
year he moved to Rockwell, Iowa. Six years later he became a
resident of Lake City, Minn., where he died Jan. 15, 1899, aged
nearly eighty-four years. His wife died in 1880, at the age of
sixty-one years. Both were devout members of the M. E. Church.
Of their four children, two are now living: Stanley H.; and Adin
E., of Lake City, Minnesota.
- Stanley H. JOINER was born Dec. 30, 1838, in Essex County,
N.Y., and there remained until
- seventeen years old, attending the common schools and the
academy. In 1855 he came with is parents to Rock County, and
from that time has been identified with the development and growth
of Wisconsin. He taught one term of school after coming to Wisconsin.
He lived with is parents on the farm in Bradford township for
a number of years, and in 1861 purchased forty acres which he
farmed until 1863, in which year he bought his present home place
of eighty acres in La Prairie township, which he has brought
to a high state of cultivation, and where he has lived ever since.
- Mr. JOINER married March 12, 1861, in Bradford township,
Miss Elizabeth C.
- VANDENBURG, daughter of William G. and Mary Ann (LEAVENWORTH)
VANDENBURG, and granddaughter of Gilbert VANDENBURG, whose parents
came to America from Holland. On her mother's side Mrs. JOINER
traces her ancestry back to Thomas LEAVENWORTH, who emigrated
from England to New Haven, Conn., about 1624. William G. and
Mary Ann VANDENBURG migrated to Rock County, Wis., in 1845, locating
in the town of Bradford, where he died March 24, 1893, his wife
surviving him only four days. To Mr. and Mrs. VANDENBURG were
born ten children, four sons and six daughters, of whom four
are now living: Elizabeth C., wife of our subject; Rebecca Ann,
wife of George HANTHORN, of Rock County; Adeliza V., wife of
James A. KIPP, of Badger, S. Dak.; and David L., of Clear Lake,
Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. JOINER have one daughter, Estelle M., who
married Lewis McDANIELS, and has two children Dee Jay and Ella
May.
- Politically Mr. JOINER is a Prohibitionist. He is a prominent
agriculturalist, and an active member
- of the Patrons of Husbandry, Grange No. 79. He is town clerk,
an office which with the exception of three years he has filled
continuously since 1884, and since that year he has also served
most of the time as justice of the peace. Mr. JOINER is secretary
of the La Prairie Creamery Co., and in business, social and public
affairs is recognized as one of the foremost citizens of his
township.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, pp. 293-294.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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