Joe Yule Joe Yule Ninnian Joseph Yule (April 30, 1892 – March 30, 1950) was a Scottish-American burlesque and vaudeville comedian who later appeared in many films as a character actor. He was noted for his starring role in the "Jiggs and Maggie" film series, opposite Renie Riano, and as the father of Mickey Rooney. Yule was born in Scotland on April 30, 1892 in the Hutchesontown district of Glasgow, and emigrated to the United States when an infant in 1892 with his parents, Ninnian Yule (1866–1943) and Elizabeth Yule, nee McKell, (1866–1919) on the steamship, "Bolivia", which sailed from the Port
Joseph James and Joseph James Jr. Joseph James and Joseph James Jr. Joseph James is the name of two Kansa-Osage-French interpreters on the Kansas and Indian Territory frontier in the 19th century. Both were usually called "Joe Jim" or "Jojim". Joe Jim Sr. was probably born in the 1790s at the Osage town in Vernon County, Missouri. He was probably the son of a French trader and an Osage woman. By about 1815, Joe Jim was living among the Kaw tribe along the Kansas River in what would become the state of Kansas. Joe Jim married Wyhesee (b. ca. 1802), a daughter of Kaw chieftain White