Joseph Ward

Ward, Joseph (1838–89), U.S. educator, Congregational minister, and missionary. As a young minister he moved to the Dakota Territory (1869) and worked as a missionary. In conjunction with the Congregational Church, he established Yankton College (1881). For the duration of his life he was president and professor of philosophy of the college. He worked for the statehood of South Dakota and organized a group to pursue that goal (1879).