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J. E. Joyner, attorney, Atkins, Ark. J. E. Joyner is one of Pope County’s leading and eminent lawyers. He owes his nativity to the Palmetto State, born in 1848, and was the eighth of nine children born to his parents. In 1852 he came with his parents to Arkansas, and in 1870 entered the University of Mississippi, taking the A. B. course, and graduating in 1873. After this he taught school in Pulaski County, and then for one year was principal of the Dardanelle Institute. About this time he began reading law, and after two years entered the office of Clark & Williams at Little Rock, with whom he remained until 1878. He was then admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Arkansas, and afterward came to Atkins, where he has since practiced his profession. He is a fluent and forcible speaker, sound in his views and has won an enviable reputation among his legal brethren in Arkansas. By his marriage, which occurred in 1881, to Miss Julia Reynolds, have been born five children, one deceased: Fay, Eddie, May, Lucy (died in infancy) and Maud. The father of Mrs. Joyner, William Reynolds, is an old settler of this county. In 1881 Mr. Joyner purchased a farm of ninety-six acres in the bottom lands of Arkansas River, and has added to this until he is now the owner of 350 acres, all bottom land with 240 acres under cultivation. The balance is well timbered. He also is the owner of 174 acres in the uplands, with forty acres in cultivation. He built a good house in Atkins in 1881, and also has a good office. He is active in town affairs, and has served as alderman. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the K. of P. and the K. of H. He is a self-made man, and all his property is the result of hard work and enterprise on his part. Mrs. Joyner is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Mr. Joyner’s parents, Joel and Rebecca (Gassaway) Joyner, were natives of North Carolina and South Carolina, respectively. The father was a merchant and farmer and came to Arkansas in 1852, settling in Pulaski County, where he remained but a short time. He then moved to Brownsville, Prairie County, and was one of the early merchants of the same, remaining there for four years. He then moved to his farm in Pulaski County, and there remained until his death in 1883. The mother died in 1868. Both were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.