Joseph G. Standart

[1] After moving to Detroit, in 1855, Standart married Mary Champion Miller, the daughter of a general, on December 22, 1858.

Two years later he moved to Cleveland, where he entered the employ of hardware distributor George Worthington & Company.

[1] He arrived in Detroit in September 1855, and worked under the city's leading hardware firm[2] Buhle & DuCharmne until 1863.

[1] Standart's business activities were characterized by writers as "cooperation in public interests" and "zealous support of [what] he believes will contribute to the material, social or moral improvement of the community".

[1] Outside of his hardware business, Standart was a long-time member of the Masonic order, a member of the Detroit Board of Commerce, a veteran of the Detroit Light Guard,[2] and a stalwart supporter of the Republican party and the Protestant Episcopal church.