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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 cliurch, 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 Englisli 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)rfessor 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., daugliter 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