When Joseph Householder was born on 8 May 1850, in Elizabeth, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Jonathan Householder, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth Spencer, was 35. He married Agnes Hunter on 1 May 1877, in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah Territory, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 10 daughters. He lived in Bingham, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1880. He died on 2 June 1912, in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in American Fork Cemetery, American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States.