Joseph E. Garland (September 30, 1922 – August 30, 2011) was an American historian and journalist who wrote extensively about the city of Gloucester, Massachusetts and its fishing industry.
[1] Garland was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1922 to a prominent Boston area family.
Garland's degree at Harvard University was interrupted by service in the United States Army in 1943.
Following the war, he worked as a reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, Providence Journal, and Boston Herald, before settling on Eastern Point, in Gloucester, Massachusetts in the home of his great grandfather Joseph Garland (mayor).
[2] While living in Gloucester Garland was an involved community member, notably acting as the first president of the restoration project of the Adventure.