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JOSEPH P. HIGBEE, farmer, post office Upper St. Clair, was born in this county in 1812, a grandson of Obediah Higbee, who, in 1784, came to Allegheny county, purchased 150 acres, and here remained until his death. He married Annie Brown, who bore him nine children. His son, Obediah, was born Feb. 12, 1782, in the present town of New Brunswick, N. J., and married Sarah, daughter of Squire Joseph Phillips. To them were born eleven children, Joseph P. being the third son. Obediah, Jr., always followed farming, and died in 1866. Joseph P. was born and reared on the present farm in Upper St. Clair township, and with the exception of a couple of years has always resided there. He married, in 1841, Abigal, daughter of Joseph Higbee, and four children have blessed their union: J. B., a member of the firm of Bryce, Higbee & Co., glass-manufacturers, Homestead, Pa.; Elizabeth C., who died in 1878; Sarah L., living with her father, the widow of George H. Kelso and the mother of four children; Clarinda C., married to William W. Lesnett, a farmer near Bridgeville, this county. Mr. Higbee has retired from work on the farm, and has been successful, he is a republican. Mr. Higbee is descended from Peter Higbee, who, with his brother Elisha, settled in New Jersey; they were sons of an Englishman who came to this country in the beginning of the eighteenth century. On his mother’s side Mr. Higbee is of Welsh descent. Her grandparents, Joseph and Mary Phillips, emigrated from Wales, about the middle of the eighteenth century and settled in Lancaster county, Pa,, where they died in prosperous circumstances, leaving their offspring well off.