Untold Story: Relationship between Biden Family and Sheene Family

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The New Yorker staff writer, Adam Entous, published an interesting story 8/15/22, about the Biden Family’s relationship with the Sheene Family.

Joe’s parents, Jean and Joe Sr, raised four children, Joe, Valerie, Jim and Frank. Joe’s paternal grandparents, Joseph Harry Biden and his wife Mary, raised three children, Joe Sr, Frank and a daughter (name?). Joe Sr, born 1915, became the favorite employee of his Uncle Bill Sheene Sr. and his Uncle’s son (Joe Sr.’s cousin), Bill Sheene Jr. This relationship spawned from Joe Sr.’ mother’s side. Bill Sheene Sr. married Joe Sr.’s Aunt Alice (Joe Sr.’s mother’s sister).

Pretty confusing already! If you follow the story, you might find it as interesting as I did.

The Untold History of the Biden Family

Relatively little has been known about the President’s father, whose story reveals a family’s fraught relationship with money, class, and alcohol.

www.newyorker.com

Joe Biden

en.wikipedia.org

 

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Who are the Sheene family?

 

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Who are the Sheene family?

Who are the Sheene family?

President Biden’s father, Joe Sr., became deeply intertwined in business with his uncle by marriage, Bill Sheene Sr. and Bill Sr.’s son Bill Jr.

From the Untold History link in the OP:

“One of the most influential figures in Biden, Sr.,’s life was Bill Sheene, Sr., his uncle and godfather, who was married to Mary’s sister, Alice. The Sheenes lived in Baltimore, and they had a son, Bill Sheene, Jr., who was about a year older than Biden, Sr. The cousins were inseparable, and Sheene, Sr., treated his nephew like another son. Sheene, Sr., was intelligent and ambitious. He was also stubborn and sensitive to slights. At fifteen, he sued a music hall that kicked him out of a vaudeville performance for showing up underdressed. He sought a thousand dollars in damages, citing the “public indignity, insult, and humiliation” that he’d endured, but the music hall was ordered to pay him just twenty-six cents: the price of the original twenty-five-cent ticket, plus a penny for his trouble.”

Mary-> Joe Sr.’s mom
Bill Sr. married Mary’s sister Alice.
After Joe Sr.’s parents died, his dad in 1941 and his mom in 1943, Joe Sr. turned to his uncle and his cousin and became a top level employee of the Sheene family in several different business endeavors in several states. Eventually the Sheene family went from vast wealth to a trailer park. Out of work, downtrodden, Joe Sr. moved the family back to Scranton PA into his wife’s family home. Joe Sr., upon finding work in Delaware, moved the family again.

 

[Cordelier]

President Biden’s father, Joe Sr., became deeply intertwined in business with his uncle by marriage, Bill Sheene Sr. and Bill Sr.’s son Bill Jr.

From the Untold History link in the OP:

“One of the most influential figures in Biden, Sr.,’s life was Bill Sheene, Sr., his uncle and godfather, who was married to Mary’s sister, Alice. The Sheenes lived in Baltimore, and they had a son, Bill Sheene, Jr., who was about a year older than Biden, Sr. The cousins were inseparable, and Sheene, Sr., treated his nephew like another son. Sheene, Sr., was intelligent and ambitious. He was also stubborn and sensitive to slights. At fifteen, he sued a music hall that kicked him out of a vaudeville performance for showing up underdressed. He sought a thousand dollars in damages, citing the “public indignity, insult, and humiliation” that he’d endured, but the music hall was ordered to pay him just twenty-six cents: the price of the original twenty-five-cent ticket, plus a penny for his trouble.”

Mary-> Joe Sr.’s mom
Bill Sr. married Mary’s sister Alice.
After Joe Sr.’s parents died, his dad in 1941 and his mom in 1943, Joe Sr. turned to his uncle and his cousin and became a top level employee of the Sheene family in several different business endeavors in several states. Eventually the Sheene family went from vast wealth to a trailer park. Out of work, downtrodden, Joe Sr. moved the family back to Scranton PA into his wife’s family home. Joe Sr., upon finding work in Delaware, moved the family again.

Okay, thanks.