Joe Biden’s father a clerk-typist for Amoco in York also lived at YMCA
The father of Presidential candidate Joe Biden worked as a clerk-typist for the American Oil Company Bulk Plant along Hill Street in Spring Garden Township. At the time, Joe Biden, Sr. was 24-years-old, which is one year before he married and two years before the birth of Joe Biden, Jr. The photo shows Joseph R. Biden, Sr. with his son, then Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. They are wearing badges, which note: “I’m Joe Biden, Sr.” and “I’m Joe Biden, U.S. Senator.” I was doing some WWII family history research via Draft Registration Cards in the York area and stumbled upon the following card. I wondered if Joseph Robinette Biden is any relation to Presidential candidate Joe Biden. Indeed he is! He is Joe Biden’s father. Per his registration for the draft on October 16, 1940, Joe Biden, Sr. is working for American Oil Company in York, located at Hill Street and the Ma & Pa Railroad. The address of his father, Joseph H. Biden, is crossed out and replaced with Y.M.C.A., York, PA.
I wondered if Joe Biden, Sr. was in York, earlier in 1940, during the 1940 United States Census. The 1940 United States Census for the City of York, Pennsylvania contains the following entry for Joseph R. Biden, among the residents of the Y.M.C.A. Dormitory per Enumeration district 67-117; enumerated April 9, 1940, on Sheet No. 81B, Line No. 43. The American Oil Company Bulk Plant was located at 385 Hill Street; which is between the Ma & Pa Railroad and Spahn Avenue in Spring Garden Township. The following present view shows that property, on which Amoco closed this Bulk Plant in 1962. From that plant, upwards of one million gallons of fuel products and lubricants were distributed each month. It appears that for at least 6-months, April thru October of 1940, Joe Biden, Sr. was living at the Y.M.C.A. Dormitory, while working at the Amoco Bulk Plant along Hill Street as a Clerk-Typist. The earliest Joe Biden, Sr. appears in York per local newspapers is August 21, 1939, when the York Dispatch reported: “Joseph Biden, a resident of the Y.M.C.A., has returned from Baltimore, where he was the guest of relatives and friends.” Therefore he could be residing at the “Y” for 14 months, August of 1939 thru October of 1940.” During that time span Joseph Biden appears in a number of plays, presented around the city, in which he is noted among the members of the Y.M.C.A. Dormitory Club.
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