Joseph Anthony Ten Broeck, B. D., the son of William P. Ten Broeck and Mary Elizabeth Yundt, was born at La Crosse, Wisconsin, January 4, 1872. The family was of the original Holland stock which settled in the Hudson Valley of New York. He was educated at the Public schools of La Crosse, the University of Minnesota and Seabury Divinity School, and ordained to the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church by Bishop Whipple in 1895. In 1901 he took charge of a large field at Christ Church, Calumet including much of Houghton and Keweenaw counties in Michigan, and has since shown a deep interest in collecting details of the early pioneer life of the Copper Country. In 1905 he was married to Clara Daniell, daughter of the late Captain John Daniell organizer of the Tamarack Mine.