Joseph Barlow Lippincott was born on October 10, 1864. He attended Dickinson College at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from 1880 to 1882, when his family moved to Kansas. In 1887, after spending several years driving cattle in Texas, he graduated from the University of Kansas with a B. S. degree in Civil Engineering. From 1889 to 1892, Lippincott was topographer for the U.S. Geological Survey in charge of making topographic maps in New Mexico and California. In 1893 he became assistant engineer for the Bear Valley Irrigation Company, on the construction of an early irrigation project on the headwaters of the Santa Ana River in Southern California. With the organization of the U. S. Reclamation Service in 1902, Lippincott became supervising engineer of all Reclamation Service activities in the Pacific Coast region from the Klamath River in Oregon to the lower Colorado River in Arizona and California. In 1890, Lippincott was married to Josephine P. Cook of Kansas City, Missouri. They had two children: a daughter, Rose, who died in 1919; and a son, Joseph Reading Lippincott who was killed in the Philippines during World War II. The Lippincotts lived on West 12th Street in Los Angeles. Joseph Barlow Lippincott died on November 04, 1942, at the age of 78.
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