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Edward was born on March 2, 1834 in Accomac County, Virginia, United States, a son of Thomas Robinson and Ann Bell (Satchell) Joynes, and a grandson of Maj. Levin Joynes of the Continental Army, whose ancestors were among the earliest English settlers of Virginia. His father was an able and successful attorney.
After preparatory training at Delaware College and at Concord. Academy, Fredericksburg, Va. , Edward entered the University of Virginia in 1850. He received the degree of B. A. in 1852 and that of M. A. the following year.
Later, he went to Berlin for two years' study at the University, where his instructors were the most noted scholars then living, Haupt, Bopp, and Benary.
Upon his graduation Joynes was appointed assistant professor of ancient languages, a position which he filled until 1856. While studying in Berlin he wrote most interestingly ("Old Letters of a Student in Germany, " Magnolia, Richmond, 1863-64). He was elected professor of Greek and German at the College of William and Mary, held this position for three years.
When the Civil War began, Joynes became chief clerk in the Confederate War Department, Richmond, serving in this capacity until 1864. In 1864 and 1865 he taught English at Hollins Institute, Virginia, and in 1866 continued the same work at Washington College, Lexington, Virginia, under Gen. Robert E. Lee. Later, in 1875, he became a member of the faculty of Vanderbilt University; in 1878 of the faculty of the University of East Tennessee. After four years he was made professor of modern languages and English in South Carolina College, Columbia. He taught there until 1908 when, after fifty-five years in educational work, he was made professor emeritus and received a retiring allowance from the Carnegie Foundation for "unusual and distinguished service as a professor of Modern Languages. "
He died in 1917.
Throughout his life Edward Southey Joynes was known and devoted himself to the upbuilding of the schools and the colleges of the South and of the teaching profession. His vigorous addresses before the Tennessee Assembly were a potent factor in the organization of the University of Tennessee. His Concerning the University of South Carolina (1905), addressed to the state legislature, performed a similar service in that state. His best works: an edition of Schiller's Maria Stuart (1880), A German Grammar for Schools and Colleges Based on the Public School German Grammar of A. L. Meissner (1887), and Minimum French Grammar and Reader (1892). Many of the Negro schools in South Carolina today are directly traceable to the enthusiasm with which he sponsored education for all classes.
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Edward zealously advocated better training for teachers, more public schools, new methods of teaching in Virginia, Tennessee, and South Carolina.
In 1859 he married Eliza Waller Vest, of Williamsburg.
