Biden, Sr., Joseph R. (Obit)
Joseph Robinette Biden, Sr., age 86, died Monday, September 2, 2002, at the suburban Wilmington home of his oldest son, United States Senator, Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
Mr. Biden was born November 13, 1915 in Baltimore, MD, the son of the late Joseph H. Biden and the former Mary Elizabeth Robinette. While he was still a boy, his family moved to Wilmington, where he attended St. Paul’s School and Wilmington High School before graduating from St. Thomas Academy in Scranton, PA, where the family was then residing.
In 1941, Mr. Biden, while employed as a sales representative for Amoco Oil Company in Harrisburg, PA, married Jean Finnegan of Scranton.
During World War II, Mr. Biden was an executive in Boston, MA, of a war industry that supplied “plastic hulls,” a special waterproof sealant, applied to all U.S. merchant-marine ships built during the war. Following the war, he was co-owner of an airport and crop-dusting service on Long Island, New York. In 1953 he moved with his family to the Wilmington suburb of Mayfield in Claymont, DE and returned to sales as manager for several Wilmington automobile agencies. He then spent 15 years working in real estate condominium sales in New Castle County and in Rehoboth Beach for the Patterson-Schwartz agency.
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