Background
Joseph Warren Yoder was born on September 22, 1872 in Belleville, Pennsylvania, United States of America, in the Kishacoquillas Valley (known locally as the Big Valley) region of Mifflin County.
Joseph Warren Yoder was born on September 22, 1872 in Belleville, Pennsylvania, United States of America, in the Kishacoquillas Valley (known locally as the Big Valley) region of Mifflin County.
He later attended the Elkhart Institute (later Goshen College) in Indiana, also teaching English and music there.
He was a schoolteacher in Milltown, Pennsylvania for two years from 1892 to 1894. In 1898 he switched to Northwestern University in Illinois. Much of his subsequent working career he worked as a college recruiter for Juniata College in Pennsylvania.
They lived in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.
Joseph Yoder died on November 13, 1956 in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, of lung cancer. He is buried in the Locust Grove Cemetery in nearby Belleville.