J. A. Tipton was born in the beautiful mountains of southwestern Pennsylvania and grew up on a small dairy farm. She “jumped the fence,” as her father liked to say, to marry the bo...view moreJ. A. Tipton was born in the beautiful mountains of southwestern Pennsylvania and grew up on a small dairy farm. She “jumped the fence,” as her father liked to say, to marry the boy on the neighboring dairy farm. She and her husband, a mechanical engineer, have been happily married for over thirty-eight years and have two children. They reside in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio.view less