BIO: Joseph G. HIGGINS, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 517 & 518.
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  JOSEPH G. HIGGINS, one of the well known citizens of Bigler Township, 
Clearfield County, Pa., where he owns seventeen and three-fourths acres of well 
cultivated land and carries on farming and also coopering, was born July 3, 
1839, in Oxford County, Me., and is a son of Ivory and Mary (Hunt) Higgins.
  The parents of Mr. Higgins spent their lives in Maine, where the father was a 
farmer and also a lumberman.  They were highly respected and well known people.  
To them were born children as follows:  Ivory, George, Emeline, Caroline, 
Debora, Joseph G., Sydney, Osburn, Charles, Ellen, Eben and Hannah.
  Joseph G. Higgins attended school in the neighborhood of his home when a boy 
and then learned the cooper trade which he followed as his main occupation as 
long as it was profitable.  In 1903 he purchased his present place from Joseph 
Kitko.
  In 1865 Mr. Higgins was married to Miss Mary Johnston, a daughter of William 
and Elizabeth (Shultz) Johnston, who were natives of Huntingdon County, Pa.  
Mrs. Higgins was the sixth born in a family of eleven children, the others 
being:  James, John, David, Sarah, Hannah, Samuel, Jane, William, Nancy and 
Ellen.  To Mr. and Mrs. Higgins the following children were born:  Orlanda, who 
deceased; Josephine, who is deceased, was the wife of Joel Cornely; Luella, who 
is deceased; Stella; Gertrude, who is the wife of George Richards; and Maude, 
who is the wife of Alfred A. Packer.
  Wherever he has lived, Mr. Higgins has been an active and useful citizen and 
his sterling qualities have been recognized.  While living in Woodward Township 
he was frequently elected to office and served as constable there for eleven 
years, and after coming to Bigler Township he was again elected to office and 
served two years as supervisor, two terms as school director and two years as 
road master.  With his family he attends the Presbyterian church.