Joy, Edmund L
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, was born Oct. 1, 1835, in Albany, N. Y. After graduating from the university of Rochester, he studied law and was admitted to the bar of New York in 1857. The same year he moved to Ottumwa, Iowa; and in 1860 was appointed city attorney. During the civil war he served as captain in the thirty-sixth Iowa infantry; and in 1864 was appointed by President Lincoln major and judge advocate of the United States. volunteers, and assigned to the seventh army corps. After the war he settled in Newark, N. J., and engaged in business.
In 1871 he was elected to the New Jersey legislature, and was re-elected the following year. He was president of the Newark board of trade in 1875-76; and president of the Newark board of education in 1885-87. In 1880 he was a delegate to the republican national convention; and in 1884 was appointed by President Arthur a government director of the Union Pacific Railroad company. He died Feb. 14, 1892.
His son, Edmund S. Joy, is a noted lawyer of Newark, N. J.