Clark, Robert Carlton, Ph.D. "History of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Vol. 3.
Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1927. p. 324.

EMILE C. JOSEPH, M. D.

     An eminent member of the medical profession, a public-spirited citizen and
a popular resident of his community, Dr. Emile C. Joseph is regarded as one of
the representative men of Corvallis, where he has built up a large and lucrative
practice. The Doctor was born in Streator, LaSalle county, Illinois, in 1890,
and is a son of E. C. and Freda (Schaffer) Joseph, of whom the former was born
in Strasburg, Alsace-Lorraine, and the latter in Heidelberg, Germany. They were
married in Europe and in 1888 came to the United States, settling in Streator,
Illinois. In the public schools of that city Emile C. Joseph secured his
elementary education, and then went to Alberta, Canada, where he lived until
1902, when he came to Salem, Oregon, and attended high school. He received his
pre-medical education at Willamette University and then matriculated in the
medical department of the University of Oregon, in which he was graduated, with
the degree of Doctor of Medicine, 1914. He served one year as interne in St.
Vincent's Hospital. in Portland, and in 1915 located in Corvallis, where he has
since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession, in which he has
met with well-merited success, being regarded as one of the leading physicians
of this part of the valley.

     Dr. Joseph is married and the father of four children, all of whom were
born in Corvallis. He is a member of the Central Willamette Medical Society, of
which he is president, the Oregon State Medical Society, the Pacific Northwest
Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Fraternally, he is a
member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Loyal Order of Moose, the
United Order of Artisans, the Knights of the Maccabees, and the Phi Oil medical
fraternity of the University of Oregon. He is examiner for the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company of New York, the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, the
Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York and other leading companies. He is
an active member of the Corvallis Chamber of Commerce and is a director of the
Kiwanis Club. The Doctor is a veteran of the World war, having enlisted in the
Medical Corps of the United States Army, in which he was commissioned a first
lieutenant. He spent a month in training at the Army Medical School at
Washington. D. C., and was then sent to Camp Gordon, at Atlanta, Georgia, where
he served for ten months. He has shown helpful interest in the welfare of his
community and has served for the past three years as a member of the city
council. No measure or enterprise for the betterment of the city has lacked his
earnest support and he commands to a marked degree the confidence and esteem of
all who know him.

     
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2016 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.