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JOSEPH MUSGRAVE, farmer, post office Shoustown, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, Dec. 21, 1827, a son of Joseph and Mary (Hall) Musgrave, also natives of County Tyrone. They were Episcopalians, and descendants of Scotch people who in an early day immigrated to Ireland. They had a family of six sons and two daughters, viz.: John, a coal-merchant in Pittsburgh; Joseph; Robert, a tinner, with store at Pittsburgh; Samuel, in real-estate business in the same city; Simpson, in Chicago, Ill.; Jennie and Maria, unmarried, and residing together in Pittsburgh, and William (deceased). The father died in the winter of 1851. The subject of our sketch was raised on his father’s farm and attended school until the spring of 1843, when his parents came to Pittsburgh, Pa. He clerked for Lewis, Dalzell & Co., iron-manufacturers, Pittsburgh, until the spring of 1852, when he was seized with the gold fever, and went to California, via the isthmus, and remained eight years, engaged in mining and prospecting. In 1860 he returned to Pittsburgh, remained a short time and then revisited Ireland, where he married, June 24, 1860, Mary A. Simpson, who was born in County Tyrone, a daughter of John Simpson, a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Musgrave came to Pittsburgh in the fall, and in the spring following, 1861, he purchased his present farm, where he has since resided. He and his wife have eight children: Jennie, Maria, James, Lizzie, William, Josephine, Ella and John, all at home. Mr. and Mrs. Musgrave are members of the Presbyterian Church.