My Genealogy Hound

JOHN PHILIPS, farmer, post office Upper St. Clair, was born in this county in 1819. About 1755 Joseph Philips, in company with his brother, Rev. David Philips, came to America from Wales. Of the early life of Joseph but little is known, he being thirty-nine years of age at the time he emigrated to America. He settled in Chester county, where he purchased a small tract of land, erected a two-story log house, and there remained until his death. He married a Welsh lady, whose first name was Mary, and three children, David, John and Joseph, were born to them. Of these, Joseph, who was a native of Chester county, came to this county and took up 360 acres of land, where he remained until his death. He followed farming all his life, and was for many years a justice of the peace. His son, David, was born and reared on this tract of land, and married Sichey Hults, by whom he had thirteen children, nine of whom are living. Of these, John, the subject of this memoir, and who is the sixth son, was born and reared on the farm where he now resides, and which he owns, and was educated in the log schoolhouse. He owns seventy-five acres of the first tract purchased by his grandfather. He married, in 1843, Margaret, daughter of Josiah Philips, and eight children were born to them, viz.: Josiah F., David M. (deceased), Mary Bell (deceased), James Alfred, Sarah Frances, Emma F., Lois A. and Elmer Ellsworth. The mother died in 1879, aged fifty-eight years. Mr. Philips and family are members of the Baptist Church; he is a republican.