Joseph Erskine Agnew (1868 or 1869 - December 1, 1949[1]) was a musician, arranger, music store proprietor, and music publisher in Des Moines, Iowa and later Newton, Iowa briefly.
[3] Sheet music published by his Agnew Music Publishing Company is in the collections of the Library of Congress, the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and the University of Rochester.
The sheet music Agnew published for it is part of the Library of Congress holdings.
[6] He copyrighted an arrangement of concert waltzes by Guy Sterling (musician) for the mandolin.
[8] He published "Musical Novelties for Mandolin Orchestra: The Cleveland Two Step".