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FIFE. The Fife family is numbered among the oldest and most prominent families of Upper St. Clair township. In 1756 John Fife, a native of Ireland, immigrated to America and settled at Winchester, Va., where for ten years he was engaged in tailoring; later he came west, and took up one thousand acres of land in what is now Upper St. Clair township, Allegheny county. His brother William came to America in 1770, located in the vicinity of Philadelphia, and six years later joined his brother in Allegheny county, taking up a tract of 386 acres. A large number of descendants of these two brothers is scattered all over the United States. John Fife married Margaret Wright, also of Ireland, and by her had five children. John, the eldest child, was born in 1756, and was ten years of age when his parents came to Allegheny county. He married Isabella Thompson, who bore him three sons and five daughters, Maj. John Fife, now living, being the eldest son of this family. William Fife, brother of the pioneer, married and became the father of six children, three of whom were sons. James, the second son, married Jane McCown, and by her had eleven children.