Lackawanna County Historical Society and Scranton Inaugural Celebration program that looks back at Joe Biden's connection to Scranton, 01/13/21
00:21 - FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T KNOW ME MY NAME IS MARY
00:23 - ANN SAVAKINUS I'M THE DIRECTOR OF
00:25 - THE LACKAWANNA
00:26 - HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND IT IS MY
00:29 - PRIVILEGE TODAY TO INTRODUCE
00:30 - OUR SPEAKERS FOR THE PROGRAM
00:33 - FROM FROM PINE GROVE TO THE
00:34 - WHITE HOUSE, A LOOK BACK AT JOE
00:36 - BIDEN'S SCRANTON ROOTS.
00:38 - OUR FIRST SPEAKER TONIGHT TO
00:40 - BEGIN THE PROGRAM. HAS BEEN
00:42 - SPENDING A LOT
00:43 - OF TIME A HISTORICAL SOCIETY
00:45 - DURING THE COVID SHUT DOWN.
00:47 - UNITS IN THE OINTMENT SON CAME
00:48 - IN AND WAS RESEARCHING HIS
00:50 - FAMILY HISTORY AND IN
00:51 - RESEARCHING IT HE JUST HAPPENED
00:53 - TO MENTION ONE DAVID.
00:54 - HE HAS THE SAME ROUTES AS JOE
00:56 - BIDEN FOLLOWS ONE OF THE SAME
00:57 - ONES WHEN THE PROJECT 46 MANY
01:02 - CAME TO THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
01:03 - AND ASKED IF WE COULD DO A
01:05 - PROGRAM. I'M JOE BIDEN'S ROOTS
01:07 - I WENT RIGHT TO HIM AND ASKED
01:09 - FOR HELP US OUT WITH
01:10 - THIS AND VERY GREAT FINALLY HE
01:12 - AGREED TO DO THIS I WANT TO
01:14 - EXPRESS MY APPRECIATION TO HIM.
01:17 - OUR SPEAKER TO BEGIN THE
01:18 - PROGRAM IS JIM HENSON HE'S A
01:20 - PARTNER IN A LAW FIRM. AND
01:23 - CAUSE WHICH
01:25 - WAS FORMERLY HAGGERTY MCDONNELL
01:28 - AND O'BRIEN AND IT'S LOCATED IN
01:29 - DUNMORE.
01:31 - JIM HENSON IS IN 1987 GRADUATE
01:33 - OF THE UNIVERSITY
01:34 - OF SCRANTON WHERE HE RECEIVED A
01:36 - BS IN ECONOMICS AND SPENT
01:38 - ONE YEAR WORKING FOR THE NAVY
01:40 - DEPARTMENT IN DC.
01:42 - HE THEN ATTENDED TO CAIN
01:43 - UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
01:45 - 88 TO 91 AND DURING LAW SCHOOL
01:48 - WAS A MEMBER OF THE LAW REVIEW.
01:51 - MISTER HANSSEN BEGAN THE
01:52 - PRACTICE
01:52 - OF LAW IN 1991 AND IS BOARD
01:55 - CERTIFIED AS A CIVIL TRIAL
01:57 - ATTORNEY AND THE NATIONAL BOARD
01:59 - OF TRIAL ADVOCACY.
02:00 - HE HAS MAINTAINED THAT
02:01 - CERTIFICATION FOR THE PAST
02:03 - 19 YEARS THAT TENSION HAS BEEN
02:05 - DESIGNATED AS A SUPER LAWYER IN
02:08 - PENNSYLVANIA, A PHILADELPHIA
02:09 - MAGAZINE EVERY YEAR SINCE 2010.
02:13 - JIM SPENDS A
02:14 - CANCER LEFT A CONSIDERABLE
02:16 - AMOUNT OF TIME
02:17 - REPRESENTING NEWSPAPERS
02:19 - CONSTRAINED VARIOUS LEGAL
02:20 - ISSUES, INCLUDING DEFAMATION
02:22 - AND FIRST AMENDMENT MATTERS AND
02:24 - HANDLING CIVIL
02:25 - RIGHTS LITIGATION. HE RESIDES
02:27 - IN DICKSON CITY WITH HIS PLATE
02:28 - THAT THERESA HENSON AND THEY
02:31 - ARE THE PROUD PARENTS OF
02:32 - 4 ADULT CHILDREN AND AS WITH US
02:35 - TODAY TO SHARE HIS STORY.
02:37 - HOW HIS FAMILY ROOTS.
02:39 - CONNECTED TO JOE BIDEN'S PRESS
02:42 - TIM THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
02:43 - THANK YOU MARY AND THANK YOU
02:45 - VERY MUCH FOR THAT
02:46 - INTRODUCTION. AND I'M VERY GLAD
02:48 - TO BE HERE THIS IS A PLEASURE.
02:50 - THIS IS BEEN A REAL A LABOR OF
02:53 - LOVE. THE LAST 8 OR 9 MONTHS.
02:56 - EXPLORING MY FAMILY HISTORY AND
03:00 - I WANT TO INTERVIEWS.
03:02 - ARCO PRESENTER TONIGHT TO TIME
03:04 - CUMMINGS WHO IS MY COUSIN AND
03:07 - MY FRIEND. SINCE OUR DAYS AT
03:10 - THE UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON
03:11 - TOGETHER. I THINK BACK THEN I
03:13 - DIDN'T REALIZE HOW WE WERE
03:14 - RELATED HE HE ALWAYS REMINDED
03:16 - ME THAT
03:16 - WE WORK.
03:18 - HE KNEW OR FAMILY HISTORY
03:19 - MUCH BETTER THAN I DID.
03:24 - TOM IS A PARTNER WITH THE LAW
03:26 - FIRM OF DAUGHERTY LEVENTHAL AND
03:27 - TRACE WHERE HE HAS
03:29 - I WORK FOR THE LAST 29 YEARS.
03:32 - HE IS A GRADUATE OF THE
03:33 - UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON AND THE
03:35 - DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW.
03:39 - PRIMARILY IN THE
03:40 - AREAS OF WORKERS COMPENSATION
03:42 - SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY IN
03:44 - PERSONAL INJURY. HE'S ALSO BEEN
03:46 - DESIGNATED AS A SUPER LAWYER IN
03:48 - THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA BY
03:49 - PHILADELPHIA MAGAZINE. HE'S A
03:52 - FREQUENT LECTURER HE IS A
03:54 - FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE YOUNG
03:56 - LAWYERS DIVISION OF THE
03:57 - LACKAWANNA COUNTY BAR
03:58 - ASSOCIATION AND TOMORROW.
04:01 - HE WILL TAKE THE MANTLE AS THE
04:04 - NEW PRESIDENT OF
04:05 - THE LACKAWANNA COUNTY BAR
04:07 - ASSOCIATION TOMORROW WHICH IS A
04:08 - GREAT HONOR AND ELECTED BY ALL
04:10 - OF HIS PEERS. THE OTHER
04:13 - 700 LAWYERS IN LACKAWANNA
04:15 - COUNTY.
04:16 - HE'S THE HUSBAND OF
04:18 - WAR AND HE IS THE FATHER OF 2
04:21 - LOVELY DAUGHTERS, MARGARET AND
04:22 - FLOWING. SO YOU'RE GOING TO
04:24 - HEAR FROM TOM CUMMINGS TONIGHT
04:25 - AS WELL.
04:29 - LET ME START BY SAYING HOW I
04:30 - GOT INVOLVED IN.
04:32 - ABOUT 9 MONTHS AGO
04:34 - MY CHILDREN SIGN ME UP FOR
04:37 - ANCESTRY DOT COM. AND I I
04:40 - JUMPED IN AND IT'S REALLY EASY
04:43 - PROGRAM
04:44 - TO WORK. AND IT'S IT'S
04:46 - INTERESTING TO BUILD OUT THE
04:47 - TREES AND THAT IS A STREET DOT
04:49 - COM TROJAN HANDS IN YOU.
04:52 - YOU JUST BUILD THE PROFILE OUT
04:54 - AND GO. AND I STARTED DOING
04:57 - THAT FOR ALL
04:58 - 8 OF MY GREAT GRANDPARENTS ATE
05:00 - A PICTURE OF EACH ONE OF MY
05:01 - BRAND GREAT GRANDPARENTS AND
05:04 - REALLY STARTED BUILDING THE
05:06 - TREES OUT MY FAMILY.
05:10 - MY MOM AND DAD ARE BOTH FROM
05:12 - SCRANTON MY DAD HAS THE SAME
05:13 - NAMES ME TO MENTION MY MOM.
05:16 - SUSIE JENKINS. SHE GREW UP ON
05:19 - NORTH WASHINGTON AVENUE ABOUT 3
05:21 - DOORS UP FROM GOVERNOR CASEY.
05:24 - MY FATHER GREW UP IN THE MIDDLE
05:26 - OF RICHMOND STREET, ONE OF 11
05:28 - CHILDREN
05:30 - BUT MY DAD HAD TO MOVE OUT OF
05:32 - THE AREA WHEN I WAS A REALLY
05:34 - YOUNG CHILD THE COUPLE OF YEARS
05:36 - OLD AND ONE OF WORKING FOR IBM
05:38 - DOWN TO MARYLAND. SO I GREW UP
05:40 - IN IN MARYLAND. THROUGH HIGH
05:42 - SCHOOL.
05:43 - MY DAD HAD GONE TO SAINT PAUL'S
05:45 - AND THE UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON
05:47 - AND EVERY CHANCE. HE COULD IN
05:49 - MY MOTHER THEY WOULD TAKE
05:51 - ME AND MY 2 SISTERS TO SCRANTON
05:53 - ON THE HOLIDAYS IN THE SUMMER
05:55 - TIME. AND WE LOST. I MEAN
05:58 - GROWING UP IN THE WASHINGTON DC
05:59 - AREA
06:00 - WHICH IS SO TRANSIENTS YOU
06:03 - DON'T HAVE THE FAMILY
06:04 - CONNECTIONS THAT YOU HAVEN'T
06:05 - SCREEN. WE WE
06:08 - LOVE SCRANTON AND AFTER LAW
06:10 - SCHOOL WHEN I STARTED
06:11 - HAVING CHILDREN. I CONVINCED MY
06:15 - WIFE TO MOVE TO SCRANTON SO
06:16 - THAT WE COULD RAISE OUR
06:17 - CHILDREN THE AIR BECAUSE I
06:19 - MISSED OUT ON
06:20 - AS A CHILD AND THIS IS WHERE I
06:22 - WANTED TO BE.
06:27 - CUMMINGS
06:27 - AN EYE WIND UP TALKING
06:29 - ABOUT MY I KNOW ENTRY
06:31 - INTO ANCESTRY DOT COM AND HE
06:33 - HAD BEEN IN IT FOR A COUPLE
06:34 - YEARS BEFOREHAND SO HE HELPED
06:36 - ME ALONG THE WAY
06:37 - AND WE REALLY WOUND UP TALKING
06:39 - ON A WEEKLY BASIS, SOMETIMES
06:41 - MORE YOU KNOW THE ALLEY.
06:44 - YOU KNOW IF WE HAVE A NEW FIND
06:45 - IN OUR FAMILY. YOU KNOW WE
06:48 - WOULD SHARE IT WE WOULD DIG
06:50 - EVEN DEEPER.
06:51 - AND IN THIS PROCESS
06:53 - OF ANCESTRY DOT COM IT REALLY
06:56 - DOES HELP THAT TOM AND I ARE
06:57 - LAWYERS BECAUSE WE HAD ACCESS
06:59 - TO THE REGISTER WILL'S OFFICE
07:01 - THE REPORTER DEAN'S OFFICE THE
07:02 - ASSESSOR'S OFFICE IN
07:04 - LACKAWANNA COUNTY. WE WANT TO
07:07 - LOOKING
07:08 - AT CENSUS. THE CENSUS RECORDS
07:10 - ARE VERY IMPORTANT DEATH
07:11 - CERTIFICATES
07:12 - MARRIAGE APPLICATIONS. IT
07:14 - REALLY IS A TEDIOUS PROCESS BUT
07:17 - GOSH I REALLY ENJOYED IT.
07:21 - ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WOULD
07:23 - TELL YOU.
07:26 - IN DOING THIS TYPE OF RESEARCH
07:28 - NEWSPAPERS DOT COM
07:30 - IS JUST COMPLETELY IN VALUE.
07:33 - IT IS A GREAT TOOL
07:35 - TO HAVE HAVE ACCESS TO ALL
07:37 - THESE NEWSPAPERS AROUND
07:38 - THE COUNTRY INTEGRATE SEARCH
07:40 - ENGINE AND WE FOUND OUT SO MUCH
07:42 - INFORMATION ABOUT OUR FAMILY.
07:45 - FROM THE NEWSPAPERS.
07:48 - I WOULD ALSO TELL YOU THAT OLD
07:50 - PHOTOS ARE PRICELESS. A LOT OF
07:54 - TIMES YOU'LL GET PHOTOS FROM
07:55 - THE 1800'S EARLY 1900'S AND YOU
07:58 - DON'T KNOW WHO THE PEOPLE ARE
07:59 - IT WOULD HELP SO MUCH THERE'S
08:01 - WRITING ON THE BACK. THE BACK
08:03 - OF THESE PHOTOS TO TELL YOU
08:05 - WHO'S
08:05 - IN THEM. WE FOUND OUT A LOT OF
08:08 - INFORMATION SO WE REALLY
08:10 - ENJOYED THAT.
08:14 - I OUR
08:14 - ANCESTRY COM AND BECAUSE OF THE
08:16 - CLARK FAMILY AND I'M GOING TO
08:18 - EXPLAIN HOW THAT. A LOT ABOUT
08:21 - THE CLARK FAMILY AND THAT'S
08:23 - HOW WE. ARE RELATED TO THE
08:26 - BLUE IT'S AND THEREFORE RELATED
08:28 - TO JOE BIDEN SO I'M GOING TO GO
08:31 - TO THE NEXT SLIDE AND SHOW YOU
08:33 - A PICTURE OF MY GREAT
08:35 - GRANDMOTHER. HER NAME IS
08:37 - MARGARET CLARK'S KARA LYNN.
08:39 - AND SHE WAS A LOVELY WOMAN, A
08:42 - WOMAN OF GREAT FAITH AND
08:43 - HUMILITY.
08:46 - JUST LOVED BY EVERYONE IN HER
08:48 - FAMILY. I WAS
08:50 - HER OLDEST
08:52 - GREAT GRANDCHILD, AND SHE
08:54 - PASSED AWAY IN THE YEAR 2000 AT
08:56 - THE AMAZING AGE OF A 102.
08:59 - SO I WAS 35 YEARS OLD. WHEN MY
09:02 - GREAT GRANDMOTHER. I ASKED THE
09:04 - WAY.
09:08 - WE HAD A GREAT CELEBRATION OF
09:10 - HER LIFE WHEN SHE WAS A 100.
09:13 - THE SAINT
09:14 - MARY CENTER. AND THE VIDEO WAS
09:16 - MADE ABOUT HER LIFE IT'S ON YOU
09:18 - TO ANYBODY WHO WANTS TO SEARCH
09:20 - THAT AND. WE
09:22 - ALSO HANDED OUT A FAMILY TREE.
09:26 - THE CELEBRATION FROM 1998.
09:29 - AND YOU CAN SEE. WE'RE GERT
09:32 - CLARK STILLMAN IN THE MIDDLE OF
09:34 - HER HUSBAND JOHN JOSEPH STALIN
09:36 - WHO LEFT THIS IN 1956. AND
09:39 - IN MARGARET DIDN'T PASS AWAY
09:42 - UNTIL THE YEAR
09:42 - 2000 AND YOU CAN SEE ALL OF THE
09:45 - FAMILIES. MARGARET'S CHILDREN
09:49 - AND THEIR SPOUSES AND
09:51 - THEIR CHILDREN, I'M DOWN ON THE
09:53 - BOTTOM RUNG RIGHT HERE.
09:56 - SO I'M VERY PROUD OF
09:58 - MY FAMILY, IT'S ALWAYS A
09:59 - PLEASURE TO GET TOGETHER WITH
10:01 - THEM. WE DON'T DO IT OFTEN
10:02 - ENOUGH.
10:05 - THAT WAS ABOUT THE EXTENT I
10:07 - KNOW OF OUR FAMILY. I I I
10:09 - FOUND OUT AROUND THE TIME OF
10:11 - THE CELEBRATION WHO MORTGAGE
10:14 - PARENTS WERE.
10:16 - PATRICK AND MORE MARGARET
10:17 - CLARK, MAGGIE CLARK. BUT REALLY
10:20 - DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT
10:21 - THEM.
10:24 - WHEN MY KIDS SIGNED UP FOR
10:25 - ANCESTRY DOT COM.
10:29 - REALLY OUR FOCUS ON
10:30 - AND MARGARET AND IN JOHN
10:32 - SCANLON MAINLY BECAUSE I KNEW
10:35 - MARGARET THE BACK AND MY
10:37 - OTHER GREAT. GRANDPARENTS HAD
10:39 - DIED SO LONG AGO.
10:41 - WHEN I WAS A CHILD A
10:42 - SMALL CHILD BUT I WAS AROUND
10:44 - FOR A LONG TIME DURING
10:46 - MARGARET'S LIFE. SO I BECAME
10:48 - FOCUSED ON IT. AND I WAS HERE
10:51 - IN SCRANTON.
10:54 - I
10:55 - HAVE TOM EXPLAIN THIS PHOTO
10:56 - HERE BUT THESE ARE THE
10:57 - CLARK SISTERS, UH GERALDINE AND
11:02 - THE OLDEST SISTER OF THE CLARK
11:03 - SISTERS WHO DIED IN 1929.
11:06 - SO TOM IF YOU COULD TELL
11:07 - EVERYBODY ABOUT THIS PHONE.
11:13 - WOULD TALK ABOUT THE ANCESTRY
11:15 - IN THE COMMON MANY YEARS.
11:17 - AND THE TREE IN THE RESEARCH.
11:20 - MAKE SURE VOTERS ARE SO
11:22 - VERY IMPORTANT. INTERNET A COPY
11:24 - OF THIS PHOTO WHEN I'M ON VERY
11:26 - FAMILIAR WITH THIS PHOTOGRAPH
11:27 - BECAUSE THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS
11:29 - TAKEN ON MY FEAR IS WHAT YOU
11:31 - GET. YOU CAN SEE IF YOU LOOK AT
11:33 - THAT. A WINDOW IN THE
11:34 - BACKGROUND OUTSIDE. THERE'S A
11:36 - RECEPTION GOING ON IN A FINAL
11:38 - THE CHOIR CONTINUALLY FAMILY,
11:39 - IT WAS A RIP CURRENT TIME.
11:42 - IF YOU LOOK AT THE FAR DRAFT
11:43 - A WOMAN IN THE DARK REST 3RD
11:44 - FROM THE RIGHT. THAT IS
11:46 - MY GRANDMOTHER. ELIZABETH
11:48 - CLARK, SHE IS MY MOTHER'S
11:49 - MOTHER. SHE WAS THE WIFE OF
11:52 - EUGENE HEALING MY GRANDFATHER.
11:55 - ARE GREAT. IT'S A LITTLE BIT
11:57 - WAS THE SISTER OF MARGARET WHO
11:59 - IS TO THE LEFT A 3RD FROM
12:01 - THE LEFT. AND THOUGH THE WHITE
12:03 - DRESS, A WHITE OR DRESS THAT IS
12:05 - TENNIS GREAT GRANDMOTHER AND
12:07 - SHE IS SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO
12:08 - HER SISTER MY GRANDMOTHER A
12:11 - LITTLE BIT CLARKFIELD AND YOU
12:13 - CAN SEE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHS
12:14 - AND YOU CAN
12:15 - SEE PAULINE WHO SEALED MARGARET
12:17 - ELIZABETH MILLION IT SAYS CELIA
12:20 - THOSE WERE 6 OF THE CLARK
12:21 - SISTERS.
12:22 - AND AGAIN THAT PHOTOGRAPH WAS
12:24 - TAKEN JUNE 15.
12:26 - 1849. MY
12:28 - PARENTS WEDDING IN MY
12:29 - GRANDMOTHER'S APARTMENT ON
12:30 - GATOR O'CLOCK ABOUT HAVING HIS
12:32 - FRIEND.
12:37 - MONEY IS HERE ONLY
12:39 - TO LEARN LUCILLE BAUR MY GREAT
12:41 - GRANDMOTHER MARGARET STEALING.
12:47 - HARRINGTON AND SO THOSE ARE THE
12:50 - 6 CLARK SISTERS IN 1949.
12:58 - TALKED ABOUT A PRICELESS IT IS
13:01 - TO GET PHOTOS AND I I DON'T
13:02 - EVEN KNOW WHERE YOU GOT THESE
13:03 - PHOTOS. BUT THE CLARK SISTERS,
13:05 - THESE ARE THEIR PARENTS AND
13:07 - WE'RE GUESSING TIME 18
13:10 - 90 THEY WERE MARRIED IN
13:12 - 1887 AT SAINT PAUL'S IT WAS IN
13:14 - SAINT PAUL'S THEM. IT WAS
13:15 - CALLED THE TABERNACLE OR THE
13:17 - WITH WONG. IT WAS A MEMOIR
13:20 - CHAPEL ON THE SAME SIDE OF
13:21 - SAINT PAUL'S WHICH ONLY OPEN.
13:24 - IN THE MARCH OF 1887, AND THEY
13:27 - WERE MARRIED BY THE REVEREND PJ
13:29 - MCMANUS IN JULY OF 1887 AT
13:33 - SAINT PAUL'S WHICH HAS GREAT
13:35 - SIGNIFICANCE TO ME
13:36 - AS MY DAD GRADUATED FROM SAINT
13:38 - PAUL'S AND 1961.
13:41 - IN MY 4 CHILDREN GRADUATED FROM
13:43 - SAINT PAUL'S TRULY FREE.
13:45 - JUST IN THE LAST 10 YEARS OR
13:47 - SO. SO THIS
13:49 - IS PATRICK IN IN MARGARET MARY
13:51 - ANN CLARK IN THIS IS HOW TOM
13:53 - AND I ARE RELATED WE HAVE A
13:54 - COMMON ANCESTOR THESE ARE MY
13:56 - GREAT GREAT GRANDPARENTS IN
13:58 - THEIR TIMES GREAT GRANDPARENTS.
14:01 - THE TOWN WHERE DID YOU GET
14:02 - THESE FUNDS.
14:05 - WE'RE GIVING IT ABOUT WHAT
14:06 - YOU CALL A MONTH CHECK SHE
14:07 - TRACKED HIM DOWN BEEN THROUGH
14:10 - THIS ALL OF THIS. OKAY ALL
14:12 - RIGHT.
14:13 - AND THEN THIS IS THIS NEXT
14:16 - PHOTO IS. PATRICK IN MARGARET
14:18 - FARC LEADER I LIKE.
14:20 - A BANK.
14:22 - IN THIS PHOTO CAME TO US
14:29 - SO THE INSIDE DONE THIS.
14:31 - AND SUZANNE WAS A GREAT
14:33 - COLLECTOR, A MEMORIBILIA IN SHE
14:37 - WAS OUT. RESEARCHING
14:39 - OUR FAMILY. A LONG LONG
14:41 - TIME AGO. BUT SHE DID NOT HAVE
14:43 - THE ADVANTAGES OF NEWSPAPERS
14:45 - DOT COM. AND SOME OF THE THINGS
14:47 - THAT TOM I
14:49 - WERE ABLE TO GET ACCESS TO TO
14:51 - GO A LITTLE
14:51 - DEEPER THAN THEN NOT SHOES AND
14:54 - WAS ABLE TO GO BUT I REMEMBER
14:55 - SUZANNE SHARING HER NOTES WITH
14:57 - ME IN THE
14:57 - 1980'S. WHEN SUZANNE AND HER
15:00 - HUSBAND DANNY ON HANKS TOLD
15:02 - NEWS AND THEY SOLD THAT TO TOM
15:04 - OWENS AND I MENTION HANKS ONLY
15:06 - BECAUSE.
15:08 - PRESIDENT ELECT BIDEN THAT'S
15:10 - ONE OF HIS FAVORITE STOPS WHEN
15:12 - HE GOES TO SCRANTON IS THE STOP
15:14 - A TANK
15:14 - TOLD THESE HE PROBABLY DIDN'T
15:17 - KNOW THIS BUT HANKS WAS ON FOR
15:19 - ABOUT A DECADE. BY ONE OF HIS
15:21 - RELATIVES.
15:25 - WE GET ON IT TO THE BULLETS.
15:27 - ALL RIGHT SO TALK. WAS ABLE
15:30 - TO DO THE DEATH CERTIFICATE.
15:33 - PATRICK CLARK. HIS GREAT
15:36 - GRANDFATHER.
15:38 - IN THE DEATH CERTIFICATES
15:39 - DIDN'T START IN PENNSYLVANIA
15:41 - UNTIL 19 '06 AND IT BECAME A
15:43 - UNIFORM. 4, LIKE YOU SEE IN
15:46 - FRONT OF YOU AND HAS A LOT OF
15:49 - GREAT INFORMATION.
15:52 - THE INFORMATION
15:53 - THAT'S CRITICAL. FOR THIS
15:55 - CONNECTION BACK TO THE BLUES.
15:57 - IT'S THE NAME OF HIS MOTHER.
15:59 - MARY BLOW. I HIGHLIGHTED IN
16:01 - YELLOW. AND
16:04 - SO THAT AS.
16:06 - REALLY FOCUSED.
16:08 - ON WHERE.
16:09 - YOU KNOW LOOKING DOWN THIS.
16:18 - ONE OF HIS TIME AND I DID WHAT
16:19 - WE WERE TRYING TO FIND AFTER
16:22 - HIM. MARGARET MARY PARKS
16:24 - GRADES.
16:25 - AND WE WANT TO CALL IN
16:27 - CEMETERIES AND AND I CALLED THE
16:29 - CATHEDRAL CEMETERY IN SCRANTON
16:30 - I TALKED TO KEVIN AND I SAID DO
16:33 - YOU HAVE THESE PEOPLE BURIED
16:34 - THERE.
16:35 - AND KIND OF LOOK AT OPENING UP
16:37 - BACK TO ME SAID, YES, WE KNOW,
16:39 - AND THEY PULLED OVER A CAR.
16:41 - AND THEY PULLED A GREEN CARD IN
16:44 - AN OLD SECTION OF THE FUNERAL
16:45 - CEMETERY. AND IT LISTED BURIED
16:47 - IN IN IN THIS PLOT.
16:50 - AND IT'S PATRICK
16:51 - CLARK BURIED IN 1931 AND HIS
16:53 - WIFE MARGARET 1939, AND THEIR
16:57 - DAUGHTERS.
17:00 - LILY CRIMMINS.
17:02 - AND CECILIA HEARING 10 AND
17:04 - GERALD E CLARK BURTON, A
17:07 - VERY FLAT. A GUEST WHO OWNED
17:10 - THE PLOT. THE PLOT IS OWNED
17:13 - BY EDWARD IN JENIN
17:14 - AND BLUE I'VE HIGHLIGHTED UP
17:17 - ABOVE ON
17:18 - THE CARD UP ABOVE SO THAT WAS
17:20 - ANOTHER CLUE AS TO WHERE WE
17:22 - WERE GOING.
17:25 - I WANT TO GET TO FOCUS ON.
17:28 - ARE A FAMILY CHURCH AND TAKE
17:30 - OVER THE PROGRAM BECAUSE WE
17:31 - WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE BULLETS
17:32 - HERE. WHAT WE
17:35 - DID THEN WHAT ALL OF THAT
17:36 - INFORMATION IS GONE WHEN TO
17:38 - NEWSPAPERS DOT COM.
17:40 - AND YOU CAN SEE ALL OF THE
17:41 - FUNERAL NOTICES. 4 MEMBERS OF
17:44 - THE BLUE AND FAMILY PATRICK
17:46 - BLOWS FAMILY AND EDWARD LEWIS
17:47 - FAMILY AND WHO THE PALL BEARERS
17:49 - WORK AND THESE FAMILIES TO THE
17:51 - FLOWER CARRIERS WE'RE IN
17:53 - THE FAMILY AND WE STARTED
17:55 - SEEING THE NAME CLARK.
17:57 - OFTEN IN THESE NEWS ARTICLES
17:59 - ABOUT THEIR DEATHS. SO THEN.
18:07 - OUR LINEAGE AND IN THIS IS THIS
18:11 - IS MY CHART HERE.
18:14 - THROUGH ALL THE RESEARCH WE DID
18:16 - GOING BACK TO WORK BLEW IT IN A
18:17 - MERRY MOOD THERE.
18:22 - GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDMOTHER,
18:23 - 3 GRADES. FIRST HUSBAND,
18:25 - SECOND HUSBAND. TRIAL
18:27 - PATRICK CLARK. THE MARKER CLARK
18:29 - WHO SHOWED THE PICTURES UP AND
18:32 - MY GRANDMOTHER, ALICE SPILLANE
18:34 - WHO IS MARGARET'S FIRST BORN
18:36 - AND THEN MY DAD.
18:39 - GO THE CONNECTION HERE
18:41 - TO THE BLUE IT'S OUR MARY BLEW
18:42 - IT IN PATRICK HIGHEST FLOOR
18:44 - WERE BROTHER AND SISTER.
18:46 - AND THEN YOU TRACE DOWN THE
18:47 - CHART. ALL THE WAY DOWN TO
18:49 - JOE BIDEN AND THE CONNECTION
18:52 - THE RELATIONSHIPS WOULD BE
18:54 - PATRICK AND MARY ARE SIBLINGS.
18:56 - THE NEXT BLOCKS ARE FIRST
18:57 - COUSINS AND SECOND COUSINS, 3RD
18:59 - COUSINS OR COUSIN. AND THE SAME
19:02 - THING WE DID FOR.
19:07 - THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
19:08 - TIMES CHART AND
19:09 - MY CHART ARE IN THE FINAL 3
19:11 - BOXES ON THE RIGHT. SO INSTEAD
19:14 - OF MARGARET.
19:16 - CLARK'S KALEN YOU HAVE TIMES
19:17 - GRANDMOTHER ELIZABETH PARK IN
19:19 - HER HUSBAND AND THEN DOWN
19:21 - THROUGH AND TIME. IS A 4TH
19:24 - COUSIN.
19:27 - I HAVE EXIT THEY'RE FROM.
19:37 - THIS EVENT OF THE LETTER.
19:39 - SO.
19:41 - AND PRESIDENT ELECT JOE BIDEN
19:43 - OR 4TH COUSINS.
19:46 - I KNOW SOMEBODY IN THE CHAT
19:48 - FEATURE ASKED YOU KNOW HOW WERE
19:50 - RELATED
19:52 - JOE BIDEN THIS IS THIS IS HOW
19:55 - ARE REALLY.
20:03 - A LOT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT
20:06 - BUT CLARKSON IN REALLY A COUPLE
20:09 - OF HOURS.
20:11 - AND ALL OF THEIR CHILDREN BUT I
20:13 - KNOW YOU'RE HERE TO TALK ABOUT.
20:16 - IN HERE ABOUT JOE BIDEN'S ROOTS
20:18 - IN SCRANTON. AND AND I
20:20 - MUST CONFESS
20:23 - I KNOW WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT
20:25 - WHAT
20:25 - IT IS. SIGNED UP FOR
20:28 - THE PROGRAM AND THAT'S REALLY
20:31 - NOT OUR FOCUS. AND NOT AND IN
20:34 - THIS RESPECT. IT'S JUST THAT WE
20:36 - DIDN'T RESEARCH THERE. ON THE
20:38 - FINICKY IN RELATIONS.
20:42 - YOU KNOW BECAUSE THAT THAT
20:43 - WASN'T IN OUR FAMILY. CHAIN AND
20:46 - THAT WASN'T THE RESEARCH WE
20:47 - DID.
20:49 - AND IN HIS FINAL FINNEGAN'S I
20:51 - I DIDN'T NEED ONE OF THE
20:52 - FUNDING IS FROM HARRISBURG WENT
20:54 - BY THE NICKNAME IN AGAIN OUT
20:55 - AGAIN AND AGAIN HE WAS A VERY
20:57 - CLOSE FRIEND OF MY OWN SON
20:59 - BRIAN HAMPTON THEY WERE THE
21:00 - SAME.
21:03 - AND IT WAS A VERY NICE GUY IN A
21:05 - LOT OF FUN.
21:09 - I DO WANT TO
21:10 - TALK ABOUT AND WORD. BLOW IT.
21:15 - I THIS SHIP PIER
21:17 - ITSELF HERE IS THE SHIP THAT
21:19 - EDWARD AND MARY WILL VARY IN
21:22 - CHILDREN CAME TO THE UNITED
21:23 - STATES. IN FROM LIVERPOOL.
21:28 - THEY ARRIVED IN NEW YORK ON
21:29 - JANUARY 201851.
21:34 - WHICH I WILL TELL YOU FROM MY
21:35 - RESEARCH IS A VERY STRANGE.
21:37 - I'M TO TAKE THIS 40 PLUS THE
21:39 - JOURNEY. ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
21:42 - OCEAN.
21:45 - WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE BLUE
21:47 - IT'S THEY'RE FROM BOW WHICH IS
21:50 - IN THE WESTERN PART OF IRELAND.
21:52 - AND THEY WOULD HAVE HAD TO
21:54 - TRAVEL ACROSS OUR LAND.
21:56 - AND THEN ACROSS THE IRISH SEA
21:58 - TO LIVERPOOL.
21:59 - AND THEN TAKE THIS 40 DAY
22:01 - JOURNEY, A SCOOTER. IN THE DEAD
22:04 - OF WINTER. WHICH IT WAS
22:06 - A VERY US A JOURNEY. EVERYTHING
22:09 - I'VE READ ABOUT IT. MANY PEOPLE
22:11 - DIED. THE
22:13 - AMERICAN ROUTES. WE'RE
22:14 - SAFER THAN THE KENYAN ROOTS
22:16 - THEY CALLED THE CANADIAN ROOTS
22:18 - OF THE SHIPS OFTEN SHIPS TO SO
22:20 - MANY PEOPLE DIED ON THEM.
22:23 - THIS THIS WAS A DANGEROUS.
22:25 - JOURNEY, ESPECIALLY WITH ALL
22:27 - THESE CHILDREN. YOU HAVE TO
22:28 - FEED THEM ON THE SHIP.
22:31 - THE WHOLE OF THE SHIPS WHERE
22:32 - THEY ALL STAYED AND SLEPT.
22:39 - WE'RE NOT SANITARY.
22:42 - YOU KNOW THIS THIS WAS AN
22:43 - ARDUOUS JOURNEY, WHAT THEY DID.
22:46 - AND I WANT TO TELL YOU A LITTLE
22:47 - BIT ABOUT EDWARD.
22:51 - AND WE'RE GLUED
22:52 - IN MARY THEIR 8 CHILDREN ARE
22:54 - LISTED THERE.
22:58 - AND WORD WAS BORN WE BELIEVE
23:00 - AROUND 18 '05. THE THE RECORDS
23:03 - WE'VE SEEN OR NOT ENTIRELY
23:05 - CLEAR ON THAT.
23:07 - YOU KNOW THERE IS SOME SOME
23:08 - NOTATIONS IN THE BAPTISMAL
23:10 - RECORDS IN BALLENA.
23:12 - HE MARRIED MARY LONGER IT CAN
23:14 - SOMETIMES IN THE RECORD YOU'LL
23:15 - SEE HER NAME AS REDINGTON IN.
23:19 - THERE'S INFORMATION THAT THE
23:21 - NAMES ARE SYNONYMOUS.
23:23 - I N WORD APPEARS IN THE PARISH
23:24 - RECORDS FOR A FILM
23:26 - OR MORE AND THE TOWN APPALLING
23:28 - ON.
23:31 - WORKED AS A SURVEYOR
23:32 - IN IRELAND. HE WORKED FOR THE
23:34 - ARMY ENGINEERS AND THE
23:36 - ORDINANCE SURVEY IN IRELAND
23:38 - WHICH WAS A HUGE JOB TOO.
23:41 - DIAGRAM AND SURVEY ALL OF THE
23:44 - DITCHES IN ROADS AND RIVERS AND
23:46 - EVERYTHING
23:47 - IN IRELAND AND HE WORKED ON
23:49 - THAT PROJECT IN THE EARLY
23:50 - 1840'S.
23:53 - HIS BROTHERS FROM WHAT
23:54 - I'VE READ. THOMAS AND JAMES
23:57 - WERE ALSO SURVEYORS IN IRELAND.
24:00 - WE DON'T HAVE ANY INFORMATION
24:02 - ABOUT
24:02 - THEIR PARENTS AND WORD IN MARY.
24:05 - WELL THEY'RE ALL THE RAGE.
24:09 - THEY WERE DONE WITH THE
24:10 - ORDINANCE IN 1842 WORK FOR THE
24:13 - VALUATION OFFICE IN IRELAND.
24:16 - AND THEN THE FAMINE DURING THE
24:18 - POTATO BLIGHT TOOK HOLD.
24:20 - AROUND 1845. IT WAS
24:23 - CATASTROPHIC FOR THE
24:25 - OF IRELAND. THERE WERE RELIEF
24:27 - EFFORTS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES.
24:29 - WHAT THE PEOPLE IN IRELAND WERE
24:31 - STARVING. AND THE
24:33 - FAMINE LASTED TILLER AROUND
24:35 - 1850 OR 51.
24:39 - AND WE'RE DONE MARRY IN THEIR
24:40 - FAMILY IMMIGRATED IN JANUARY OF
24:43 - 1851 WHICH WAS LATE IN THE
24:45 - FAMILY.
24:48 - I LEARNED COST ABOUT $18
24:50 - PER PERSON TO TAKE THIS VOYAGE.
24:54 - I I ALSO LEARNED THE COUNTY
24:55 - MAYO WAS ONE OF THE WORST HIT
24:57 - COUNTIES IN IRELAND. DUE TO THE
25:00 - FAMINE.
25:02 - ONE OF EDWARDS
25:03 - LAST JOBS AND FALLING, I WAS TO
25:06 - WORK AS AN OVERSEER IN THE
25:08 - FALLING ON UNION WORK HOUSE.
25:11 - WHICH I WAS LIKE A POUR HOUSE.
25:13 - IT WAS IN QUICK TO FEED 1200.
25:18 - AND GIVE THEM A ROOF OVER THEIR
25:19 - HEADS AND THE NEED WAS TRIPLE
25:22 - THAT AMOUNT.
25:24 - I UNDERSTAND FROM MY READING IT
25:26 - WAS IT WAS A A
25:28 - PRETTY DEPLORABLE A PLACE TO
25:31 - LIVE BUT IF YOU'RE STARVING YOU
25:33 - HAD TO DO AGENDA DO.
25:36 - SO HOW DID THEY GET TO AMERICA.
25:39 - THAT'S A VERY
25:40 - INTERESTING STORY AND. IT
25:43 - BRINGS IN. PATRICK.
25:47 - IN SOME OF THE REPORT'S LIST
25:49 - THEM AS PATRICK AFFLUENT AND
25:50 - SOME OF THEM IS PATRICK HIGHEST
25:52 - FLOOR. AFTER PART OF A LITTLE
25:54 - BIT MORE INTERESTING. BUT HE
25:56 - WAS BORN ON APRIL 5TH,
25:59 - 1833. IN OUR DA PARISH FALLING
26:02 - OFF COUNTY MAYO.
26:04 - AND AS A YOUNG MAN HE WAS
26:05 - PREPARING TO ATTEND MAY KNOW.
26:08 - COLLEGE IN DUBLIN TO STUDY
26:09 - SURVEYOR SURVEYING AND
26:11 - ENGINEERING LIKE HIS DAD.
26:14 - BUT WHEN HE WAS AROUND 16 YEARS
26:15 - OLD HIS DAD HAD PICKED OUT A
26:17 - GIRL FOR HIM TO MARRY.
26:20 - AND HE DID NOT WANT TO MARRY
26:21 - THIS YOUNG LADY.
26:25 - HE DID I GUESS WHAT SOME PEOPLE
26:26 - DO IN A FLOOD. AND HE BECAME A
26:29 - SAILOR.
26:31 - SO IN 1849, HE TOOK TO THE
26:33 - SEAS.
26:36 - IT WASN'T EASY.
26:37 - THE FIRST SHIP HE WAS FORCED TO
26:39 - GET ON BURNED IN
26:40 - THE DOCKS AND HE DIDN'T WANT
26:42 - CUP SAILING IN THAT SHIP BUT HE
26:44 - DID A SIGN ON WITH ANOTHER
26:46 - VESSEL AS
26:47 - A SAILOR WHICH WRECKED OFF THE
26:49 - COAST OF CHILE. AND HE WAS
26:51 - STRANDED IN SOUTH AMERICA FOR A
26:53 - WHILE. BUT IN A SHORT
26:56 - PERIOD OF TIME A COUPLE OF
26:57 - YEARS AS A SAILOR. IN HIS
27:00 - OBITUARY. IT'S LISTED THAT HE
27:03 - SAW HAWAII. CHINA JAPAN AND
27:06 - SOUTH AMERICA REALLY TRAVELED
27:08 - THE WORLD AND WHAT A STORY FOR
27:10 - YOUNG MEN TO BE THAT IT VENTURE
27:11 - SOME.
27:13 - AS A 161718 YEAR-OLD.
27:16 - BUT HE GOES BACK TO IRELAND.
27:19 - IN LATE 1850.
27:23 - SHEPARD SAYS MOM
27:24 - AND DAD AND HIS 7 SIBLINGS.
27:30 - AND FOR SOME REASON THEY
27:31 - DECIDED.
27:37 - NOW 1851 IN SCRANTON A LITTLE
27:40 - BIT OF INFORMATION HERE.
27:43 - THERE IS NO
27:44 - SCRANTON ATTACK DOESN'T BECOME
27:46 - A BOROUGH UNTIL 1856.
27:49 - AND IT'S NOT INCORPORATED AS A
27:51 - CITY UNTIL 1866.
27:59 - GIRLS ARE SECTIONS I PARK.
28:03 - SLOCUM HOLLOW IN PROVIDENCE.
28:07 - AND EVENTUALLY THOSE 3 COMBINED
28:11 - SCRANTON BUT ANY TEAM 51,
28:13 - THERE'S ABOUT 31000.
28:15 - AND IT'S IN THOSE 3 GIRLS.
28:18 - AND THE BLUE, IT'S ARRIVED
28:20 - THERE. AND
28:21 - THEY SETTLE IN SANDY BANKS.
28:25 - BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE SLIDE.
28:26 - THESE ARE THEIR 8 CHILDREN.
28:31 - I FILLED IN THEIR DATES OF
28:33 - BIRTH AND DEATH IS AS BEST I
28:35 - COULD.
28:38 - AND MY RELATION IS MARY.
28:42 - IT'S FUNNY IN OUR NOTE CENTER
28:44 - FAMILY THAT SUZANNE SULLIVAN
28:46 - AND ME.
28:49 - AND I THINK SHE INTERVIEWED MY
28:50 - GREAT GRANDMOTHER NANA SCANLON
28:52 - AS WE AFFECTIONATELY CALLED
28:54 - HER.
29:00 - BUT OBVIOUSLY HER FORMAL NAME
29:02 - WAS MARY WAS SHOWN ON HER SON'S
29:04 - DEATH CERTIFICATE. AND THEN WE
29:08 - HAVE PATRICK YES, NEXT STAGE.
29:11 - AND WE HAVE THE REST OF EDWARD
29:13 - AND BERRIES CHILDREN.
29:17 - ALL CAME
29:17 - TO AMERICA. THE INFORMATION I
29:19 - HAVE IS THAT MICHAEL.
29:22 - IM AGREED BACK TO LONDON AND
29:24 - SOME POINT IN TIME. BUT
29:27 - CATHERINE.
29:28 - WE HAVE A LOT OF INFORMATION ON
29:30 - KATHERINE SHE DIED AT THE
29:31 - MALONEY HOME AND AT THE END OF
29:33 - GREENERY.
29:37 - WE HAVE THAT INFORMATION.
29:39 - NOW.
29:42 - BLEW IT WHEN HE CAME TO
29:43 - SCRANTON AS AN ENGINEER AND I
29:45 - WASN'T SURE. HERE. HE WORKED
29:48 - FOR ME I DEAL AND W.
29:52 - COOL COMPANY.
29:53 - THAT'S THE DAK DELAWARE
29:54 - LACKAWANNA AND
29:55 - WESTERN RAILROAD. BUT THEY ALSO
29:58 - OLD COAL MINES, INCLUDING THE
30:00 - DIAMOND MINE. CLARK WORK FOR
30:03 - 43 YEARS.
30:07 - HE WORKED AT THE VIDEO AND W
30:09 - FOR A WHILE AND THEN HE WORKED
30:11 - AT THE.
30:13 - I THINK IT'S REALLY THE OXFORD
30:15 - MINE, WHICH WAS UP IN HYDE PARK
30:17 - NEAR MEAN MEAN AVENUE.
30:20 - AND IN JULY OF 1872, HE DIED.
30:26 - NOBODY SAW HOW HE DIED EXACTLY
30:28 - WHAT THEY FOUND HIM DROWNED IN
30:31 - THE LACKAWANNA RIVER.
30:33 - SOME YOUNG BOYS FOUND ABOUT 5
30:35 - DAYS AFTER HE HAD GONE MISSING.
30:39 - THIS ARTICLE APPEARED I THINK
30:41 - IN A CARBONDALE, A NEWSPAPER.
30:44 - AND LET ME JUST TELL YOU
30:46 - SCRANTON.
30:47 - THEIR NEWSPAPER REALLY DIDN'T
30:49 - TAKE HOLD UNTIL AFTER 1872, THE
30:51 - NEWS WAS PRETTY MUCH REPORTED
30:53 - BY THE CARBONDALE NEWSPAPERS IN
30:55 - PITTSTON NEWSPAPERS THOSE AREAS
30:58 - WERE MORE MATURE. THEY HAD
31:01 - BETTER NEWSPAPERS.
31:03 - THE SCRANTON REPUBLICAN WAS
31:05 - STARTING TO TAKE HOLD BUT
31:07 - WE FOUND A LOT MORE NEWS IN OUR
31:09 - SEARCHES THROUGH CARBONDALE IN
31:11 - PITTSTON IN THE EARLY DAYS, THE
31:13 - 1870'S.
31:18 - ANOTHER ARTICLE I DIDN'T PUT
31:20 - APPEAR THAT WORD. AFTER HE DIED
31:22 - HE WAS.
31:23 - TAKEN BACK TO HIS DAUGHTER'S
31:25 - HOUSE AND SANDY BANKS WHERE HE
31:27 - WAS WINNING. I DON'T KNOW
31:28 - WE'RE VERY I DON'T KNOW IF HE
31:31 - WAS TAKEN TO A CHURCH FOR A
31:32 - FUNERAL. THEY DON'T HAVE
31:34 - THAT INFORMATION. A LOT OF
31:36 - TIMES FOR PEOPLE THAT DIED IN
31:37 - 1870. I WANT TO TELL YOU
31:46 - LET THE BLUE IT'S.
31:50 - IF YOU IF YOU CAN LOOK AT THIS
31:51 - MAP HERE. THEY REALLY SETTLED
31:53 - IN AREA C AND
31:55 - E BANKS. SANDY BANKS IS IN THE
31:57 - LEFT LOWER PORTION
31:59 - OF THIS MAP AND A VERY SMALL A
32:03 - PART OF IT IS IN 16TH WARD OF
32:06 - THE CITY OF SCRANTON
32:07 - AND A LARGE PART OF SEE ANY
32:09 - BENCHES IN 64% OF WAR WHICH
32:13 - INCLUDES PINE BROOK.
32:18 - IN
32:18 - THE CLARK'S. SOLD IN IN THE
32:22 - SANDY BANKS REGION WHICH GOES
32:24 - FROM.
32:26 - OR TREAT EVENT THE STREET YOU
32:28 - CAN SEE IT IN THE LOWER
32:28 - LEFT-HAND PORTION IN SANDY
32:31 - BANKS ENDS THAT MY HISTORY.
32:34 - IT'S A REALLY SMALL AREA BUT IT
32:36 - WAS AN
32:36 - IRISH AMERICAN ON CLICK
32:38 - DOMINATED BY IRISH AMERICAN
32:40 - FAMILIES. AND
32:43 - IT WAS IN THE SHOW.
32:46 - THE DIXON MANUFACTURING COMPANY
32:49 - WHICH ARE THE BUILDINGS.
32:51 - IN THE CENTER OF THE DIAGRAM
32:53 - THE MACHINE SHOP.
32:55 - AND YOU CAN'T REALLY READ THE
32:57 - WRITING AND THEN JUST ABOVE
32:59 - THAT IS THE PINE BROOK. BREAKER
33:02 - BRING YOUR SHOW YOU PICTURES OF
33:03 - THEM. THOSE STRUCTURES. ALMOST
33:06 - COMPLETELY OVERSHADOWED SANDY
33:09 - BANKS. AND I CAN ONLY IMAGINE
33:11 - HOW LOUD IT MUST
33:13 - HAVE BEEN TO LIVE IN THIS
33:15 - NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE SHADOW OF
33:16 - THESE 2 STRUCTURES. IN RAIN
33:18 - ACROSS THE RIVER ACROSS THE
33:20 - OLIVE STREET BRIDGE. I WAS
33:22 - STREET WAS CALLED CARBON STREET
33:24 - BACK THERE.
33:25 - THAT BRIDGE YOU SEE IS NOW THE
33:27 - OLIVE STREET BRIDGE AND IT
33:29 - LEADS TO SCRANTON HIGH SCHOOL
33:30 - AND RIGHT IN THAT AREA IS THE
33:32 - DIAMOND MINE ON BY THE DEAL AND
33:34 - W A WHOLE COMPANY IN IT WAS A
33:37 - HUGE MINING OPERATION ON THAT
33:40 - SIDE OF THE RIVER.
33:42 - AND WE'RE GOING TO TALK
33:43 - ABOUT SO STREET LATER IN HERE
33:45 - FOLKS TRAIN IS UP A BOMB OF
33:47 - COURSE THE TOP OF
33:48 - THE PICTURE BECAUSE UP ON SOME
33:50 - STREET THAT'S WHERE PATRICK
33:51 - KIND OF BLEW IT SETTLE DOWN
33:54 - 3.16. PHELPS STREET AND
33:56 - THEIR FAMILY ON THE HOUSE THERE
33:58 - FOR I THINK IN YOUR 90 YEARS
34:00 - AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT
34:02 - LITTLE BIT.
34:04 - THIS IS
34:05 - THE FICTION MANUFACTURING
34:06 - COMPANY THOMAS DIXON WAS ONE OF
34:08 - THE RICHEST MEN IN AMERICA.
34:10 - THE PRIMARY OWNER OF THIS
34:11 - COMPANY THEY BUILT LOCOMOTIVES
34:13 - AND LOTS OF OTHER THINGS FOR
34:14 - THE LOCOMOTIVE INDUSTRY.
34:17 - THIS WAS RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO SEE
34:18 - ANDY THANKS.
34:22 - I'M BRINGING THIS UP THIS IS ON
34:24 - THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER.
34:25 - THIS IS WHERE THE A DIAMOND
34:27 - MINE WAS. AND YOU SEE CARMINE
34:30 - STREET THERE.
34:31 - AND THAT AREA RIGHT THERE IS
34:33 - CALLED DIAMOND FLATS I'M
34:35 - SHOWING YOU.
34:36 - AND PATRICK CLARK AND HIS WIFE
34:38 - MAGGIE BEFORE THEY BLOCKED THE
34:40 - FAMILY HOME STAND AT ONE FOR
34:41 - ANTHONY SCREEN. THEY LIVED IN
34:43 - COAL COMPANY HOUSING, ONE OF
34:45 - THESE HOUSES HERE WE HAVE THE
34:47 - EXACT ADDRESS. ONE OF THESE
34:49 - HOUSES HERE.
34:54 - YOU KNOW HAVE NO INDOOR
34:55 - PLUMBING OR 2 WELLS ON THE
34:57 - STREET 1, 1, INTO THE STREET
34:58 - ONE OF THE OTHER END OF THE
34:59 - STREET.
35:01 - ALL OF THESE HOUSES AND GARDENS
35:02 - IN THEIR BACK YARDS IN A BRICK
35:04 - OVEN TO MAKE BREAD.
35:06 - THEY HAD CHICKENS IN THE
35:07 - BACKYARD AND PIGS IN.
35:10 - AND FROM WHAT I READ IN ALL
35:12 - THIS PAPER ARTICLES THAT WAS A
35:14 - REALLY VIBRANT
35:16 - RATE NEIGHBORHOOD
35:17 - DOMINATED BY IRISH AMERICAN
35:19 - FAMILIES WITH LOTS OF KIDS
35:22 - RIGHT HERE YOU SEE ATHLETIC
35:23 - PARK WHICH IS NOT A MEMORIAL
35:25 - STADIUM.
35:27 - THAT LETTER TRADE GROUP POINT
35:30 - THERE. GARRETT PLAYED THERE.
35:34 - REALLY
35:34 - INTERESTING NOW. THIS CARBON
35:36 - STREET IF YOU CAN ENVISION
35:38 - WORSE PRETTY HIGH SCHOOL IS NOW
35:39 - BE IN THIS AREA WHERE MY MOUTH
35:41 - IS. THIS
35:43 - CARMINE STREET RIGHT NOW.
35:47 - LUNCH AT WAY. MIKE
35:50 - MULLEN CHECK.
35:53 - IN MAGGIE PARTS GREAT
35:55 - GRANDCHILD. A NEW IMAGINE, HOW
35:57 - IRONIC THAT IS. THAT MAGGIE
36:00 - CLARK. MAGGIE, A BIRTHDAY, 18
36:03 - CHILDREN.
36:06 - 2 THIRDS OF THEM WERE BORN
36:07 - HERE. INCLUDING
36:09 - TIMES GRANDMOTHER
36:11 - AND MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER BORN
36:12 - HERE ON THIS STREET, I'M
36:14 - ANTHONY STREET ACROSS THE RIVER
36:16 - WHERE THE OLDER THE THE YOUNGER
36:17 - CHILDREN WERE BORN.
36:20 - HOW IRONIC IT IS THAT THIS
36:21 - STREET IS NOW NAMED FOR THEIR
36:23 - GREAT GRANDCHILD. MIKE MUNCHAK.
36:28 - HERE IS A PICTURE.
36:30 - THE DIAMOND MINE
36:31 - OPERATION 19 O 5 AND IT LOOKS
36:34 - LIKE SCORCHED EARTH.
36:36 - WHAT A MINING OPERATION DOES TO
36:38 - THE LAND. ANOTHER PICTURE OF
36:40 - THE DIAMOND BREAKER. THIS IS
36:43 - THE PINE BROOK
36:44 - BREAKER OVERSHADOWING PARTS OF
36:46 - MINERAL AVENUE
36:49 - A GOOD SECTION OF SANDY BANKS.
36:52 - AND THIS IS FOR YOU FOR THE
36:54 - STREET, THIS WAS A GREAT FIND
36:55 - FOR THOMAS I THREW THE
36:56 - ASSESSOR'S OFFICE.
36:59 - THE HOUSE WAS DEMOLISHED IN
37:01 - 1982 OR 83, BUT THEY STILL HAD
37:03 - A CARD ON THE HOUSE WHERE MARY
37:07 - BLEW IT. HER
37:09 - 10 CHILDREN FOR FROM HER
37:11 - FIRST MARRIAGE TO ANTHONY HOWIE
37:14 - AND THEN 6 FORMER SECOND
37:15 - MARRIAGE TO MICHAEL CLARKE.
37:19 - YOU WERE BROUGHT UP IN THIS
37:21 - HOUSE NOW. THE DAUGHTERS AND A
37:23 - YOUNG AGE WE'RE LEARNING LEAD
37:26 - GO INTO SERVICE AS DOMESTICS
37:29 - 131415 YEARS OF AGE.
37:31 - THE BOYS AND IN THERE ARE ONLY
37:34 - 3 BOYS ONE HOWLEY
37:36 - WHO BECAME THE FAMOUS BOOK BILL
37:38 - AFTER NATIONALLY A DANCER BUT
37:41 - CLARK
37:41 - BOYS JAMES AND PATRICK WENT
37:43 - ACROSS THE RIVER TO WORK AT THE
37:45 - DIAMOND MINE, A SLIGHT PICTURES
37:46 - AT A YOUNG AGE. TRAGICALLY
37:48 - JAMES DIED AT THE AGE OF 31.
37:51 - AND PATRICK WE KNOW WENT ON TO
37:54 - LIVE FOR A GOOD LONG LIFE.
37:56 - THIS IS A PICTURE OF DOWNTOWN
37:57 - SCRANTON THE PENN AVENUE.
37:59 - FRANKLIN AVENUE AREA.
38:01 - THIS BUILDING RIGHT HERE IS THE
38:02 - DIXON MANUFACTURING
38:03 - BUILDING HERE. IT'S NOW THE
38:05 - PENNSYLVANIA PAPER COMPANY
38:06 - BUILDING.
38:08 - YOU CAN SEE IN THE UPPER LEFT
38:09 - HAND PORTION PARTS OF SANDY
38:10 - BANKS. HERE YOU CAN SEE THIS
38:13 - GRANTS THE HOSPITAL HERE.
38:17 - AND THAT BRINGS US THE PATRICK
38:19 - HIGHEST BLUE.
38:25 - I TOLD YOU HOW HE ARRIVED HERE
38:27 - IN SCRANTON HE SHEPHERDED HIS
38:28 - FAMILY.
38:30 - TO SCRANTON I'M NOT SURE THEY
38:32 - WOULD HAVE GOTTEN HERE WITHOUT
38:33 - HIM.
38:37 - FOR A WHILE
38:38 - AND SCRANTON
38:39 - IN 1854 HE WAS WITH THE
38:41 - DELAWARE AND HUDSON RAILROAD AS
38:42 - A DRAFTSMAN.
38:44 - IN 1857 HE MARRIED
38:46 - CATHERINE SCAMMON ANOTHER
38:49 - PROMINENT IRISH FAMILY WHO HAD
38:51 - ARRIVED IN THE SANDY BANKS,
38:52 - SYRIAN 1847.
38:55 - THEY GOT MARRIED IN THE CHURCH
38:56 - OF THE CORNER FRANKLIN STREET
38:58 - STREET. BY THE REVEREND MOSES
39:00 - WINNING.
39:04 - ADVENTURESOME SPIRIT. IN AN
39:06 - 1857 HE TOOK HIS WIFE AND HE
39:08 - WENT
39:08 - TO IOWA AND THEY BROUGHT MANY
39:11 - SCRAM TONY IS WITH THEM TO OPEN
39:12 - THE FIRST COAL MINES IN THE
39:14 - STATE OF IOWA.
39:15 - AND IN LAST TOO LONG THERE
39:17 - FLOODING. ME THAT MY EGO BLAST.
39:21 - SOME OF THE SCRIPT MEN STAY
39:22 - THERE AND DRIFTED INTO
39:23 - AGRICULTURE. BUT PATRICK AND
39:25 - KATHARINE AND THEY CAME BACK
39:28 - THE SCRANTON BUT THEY DIDN'T
39:30 - STAY LONG. I WENT TO NEW
39:32 - ORLEANS WORK ON A RAILROAD
39:34 - EXTENSION IN NEW ORLEANS WHERE
39:36 - THEIR OLDEST CHILD. JOE BIDEN'S
39:39 - GREAT GRANDFATHER. EDWARD F.
39:42 - LOUIS WAS BORN IN NEW ORLEANS.
39:45 - AND THEN RETURNED TO SCREEN FOR
39:47 - A WHILE.
39:48 - BUT AGAIN THEY PICKED UP AND
39:50 - LEFT EARLY WINTER OF BRAZIL.
39:52 - RIO DE JANEIRO.
39:54 - WHERE PATRICK WORKED ON A
39:55 - CONTRACT TO BUILD A NEW
39:56 - RAILROAD LINE THERE. IN RIO DE
39:58 - JANEIRO.
40:02 - SOUTH AMERICA DURING THE CIVIL
40:04 - WAR DUE TO THE EMBARGO OF SOUTH
40:05 - AMERICAN PORTS.
40:08 - HE RETURNED TO SCRANTON 1866
40:10 - FOR SHORT TIME
40:11 - AND THEN WENT TO THE OIL FIELDS
40:13 - OF
40:13 - WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. THE
40:15 - LAYOUT RAILROAD LINES. BUT IN
40:18 - 1871 HE RETURNED TO SCRANTON
40:20 - FOR GOOD. HE ACCEPTED A
40:22 - POSITION IN THE ENGINEERING
40:23 - DEPARTMENT OF THE DELAWARE AND
40:24 - HUDSON RAILROAD.
40:26 - HE LATER BECAME A COUNTY
40:27 - SURVEYOR FOR LUZERNE COUNTY.
40:29 - I WANT TO COUNTY WAS FORMED
40:31 - YET.
40:33 - HE SURVEYED THE LACKAWANNA
40:34 - RULED AND IT'S BLOOMBERG RANCH.
40:39 - WAS ELECTED TO THE SCHOOL BOARD
40:40 - IN 1873.
40:43 - THERE WAS CONTENTION OVER THAT
40:44 - ELECTION WAS AN ALTERNATE SLATE
40:46 - OF.
40:48 - DIRECTORS THAT CHALLENGE THE
40:49 - ELECTION IT SOUNDS FAMILIAR TO
40:51 - WHAT WE'VE GOT GOING ON.
40:52 - LAST COUPLE MONTHS. BUT
40:55 - BIDEN SLATE OF DIRECTORS ONE
40:56 - OUT THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME
40:58 - COURT RULED IN THEIR FAVOR.
41:01 - HE WAS ON THE
41:02 - SCHOOL BOARD. I THEN WORKED FOR
41:04 - AS A SURVEYOR FOR THE CITY OF
41:06 - SCRANTON HE SURVEYED MANY OF
41:08 - THE EARLY LAST MANY MANY OF THE
41:10 - LAST IN THE EARLY DAYS OF
41:11 - SCRANTON IS MAPS IN SCRANTON
41:14 - WERE CONSIDERED AUTHORITATIVE.
41:18 - OPENED IT TOOK OVER A COAL
41:20 - MINE AT ANOTHER POINT IN TIME
41:21 - THE GREENWOOD COAL MINES WHICH
41:23 - WAS NOT SUCCESSFUL.
41:26 - HE REALLY FOUND HIS LONG
41:27 - LASTING JOB IN THE 1870'S WHEN
41:29 - HE WAS APPOINTED AND AS A COAL
41:32 - MINE INSPECTOR.
41:36 - IN FOR THE.
41:39 - TERRITORY LUZERNE COUNTY THAT
41:41 - ENCOMPASSES PRESIDENT
41:42 - LACKAWANNA COUNTY AND
41:44 - EVERYTHING NORTH OF PRINCETON.
41:46 - THOSE WERE HIS MINES FOR
41:47 - INSPECTION. I GET BACK TO HIS
41:49 - CHILDREN IN A MINUTE.
41:51 - BUT THIS IS A NEWS ARTICLE THAT
41:53 - APPEARED IN 1873.
41:57 - AND AS YOU CAN SEE IT
41:58 - SAYS MY STATISTICS THROUGH THE
42:00 - KINDNESS OF MISTER PATRICK BLEW
42:01 - IT MINE INSPECTOR FOR
42:02 - THIS DISTRICT. WE ARE UNABLE TO
42:04 - LAY BEFORE OUR READERS THE
42:06 - FOLLOWING LIST OF IMPORTANT
42:07 - STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1873.
42:10 - I GUESS THERE WERE DEATHS
42:13 - AND THE ACCIDENT SO WE TONS OF
42:15 - COAL HOW MANY WERE FROM SOME OF
42:16 - THE WINDOWS WHICH WINDS
42:18 - WERE VALID. THE GREAT DETAIL.
42:24 - PATRICK BLOOM WAS
42:25 - A HIGHLY A RESPECTED
42:27 - A MINE INSPECTOR. WHEN HE DIED
42:30 - HIS OBITUARY. YES, THE SETTING
42:33 - THAT HE OWNS MAKE SURE THERE
42:35 - WERE AMPLE SUPPORT. I WAS LIKE
42:37 - FOR THE ROOM OF THE MINES THAT
42:40 - BE INSPECTED. AND HE SPENT
42:42 - 23 YEARS WORKING AND AS
42:44 - AN INSPECTOR. HE RETIRED AROUND
42:46 - THE YEAR 1900.
42:51 - HE DID CONSULTING WORK AFTER
42:53 - THAT.
42:55 - THESE ARE HIS CHILDREN PATRICK
42:57 - FRAZEE ACTUALLY HAVE 13
42:58 - CHILDREN. LIKE A LOT OF
43:01 - A YOUNG. IRISH AMERICAN
43:04 - FAMILIES IN THIS STATE IN THESE
43:05 - DAYS A LOT OF CHILDREN DIED IN
43:08 - EARLY CHILDHOOD. BUT THESE 8
43:11 - CHILDREN SURVIVE
43:12 - INTO ADULTHOOD AND THERE'S
43:14 - THEIR NAMES AND AGES AND EDWARD
43:18 - LU IS THE TIME NOW
43:20 - TO WHOM JOE BIDEN IS CONNECTED.
43:26 - IS JOE BIDEN'S GREAT
43:27 - GRANDFATHER. HIS DAUGHTER
43:30 - GERALD E IS JOE BIDEN'S
43:32 - GRANDMA.
43:35 - SECOND CHILD, NORA, MARY
43:38 - DAVID WROTE AND JULIAN
43:40 - GENEVIEVE IN THERESA. IN
43:42 - FRANCIS WILLIAM ANGELA.
43:47 - JULIA WAS A TEACHER AT THE JOHN
43:49 - ADAMS SCHOOL IN CRANBROOK FOR
43:51 - MANY YEARS, ANGELA. WE'LL SHOW
43:53 - YOU.
43:54 - HER OBITUARY DIED IN
43:56 - 1968 WHICH SHE LIVED A LONG
43:59 - LIFE. SHE AND HER
44:04 - SISTERS LIVED AT 3.16 PHELPS
44:06 - STREET FOR MANY YEARS AND I'M
44:07 - TALKING HOUSE PROVING SEARCHERS
44:09 - OFFICE.
44:11 - WE'RE ABLE TO PROVE THAT THEY
44:13 - OWN THIS HOUSE FOR
44:14 - 8090 YEARS AND THE HOUSE STILL
44:17 - STANDS TODAY. I TOOK THIS
44:18 - PICTURE OVER
44:19 - THE WEEKEND. THIS IS THE HOUSE,
44:21 - IT'S NEVER BEEN TORN DOWN OR
44:22 - SIDING ON IT NOW. AND IT'S BEEN
44:25 - COVERED A LITTLE BIT. YOU CAN
44:26 - TELL FROM THE CHIMNEY. IT'S A
44:27 - VERY OLD HOUSE.
44:29 - RIGHT IRON FENCE, BUT IT'S
44:30 - STILL THERE TO THIS DAY RIGHT.
44:32 - I'M TOLD GRIFFIN NEAR
44:34 - MOSCOW LAST AND PHELPS STREETS.
44:44 - DIED BEFORE HIM IN 19 OH ONE
44:46 - KATHERINE SCANLON
44:47 - BLEW IT. A FUNERAL WAS HELD IN
44:49 - SAINT PETER'S CATHEDRAL IS
44:51 - BURIED AT THE CEMETERY.
44:55 - DIED IN
44:56 - 1911 AND HIS FUNERAL WAS ALSO
44:58 - HELD AT SAINT PETER'S AND HE'S
44:59 - BURIED IN CATHEDRAL CEMETERY
45:01 - WITH HER.
45:03 - THERE ARE MANY NEWS REPORTS AT
45:04 - THE TIME OF HIS DEATH.
45:08 - HE IS. DESCRIBED AS.
45:13 - ONE OF THE EASTERN PIONEERS OF
45:14 - SCRANTON. AND CLEARLY
45:17 - HE WAS AND ENERGETIC EVENT OR
45:19 - SOME YOUNG MAN YOU CAN TELL BY
45:21 - THE A JOB SHE TALKING
45:24 - A FEARLESSNESS IT TRAVELING
45:26 - AROUND THE WORLD.
45:29 - WHAT HAS HE SETTLED IN
45:30 - SCRANTON.
45:33 - 1870.
45:35 - YOU CAN TELL FROM THE JOB
45:37 - SHE HAD AS CITY ENGINEER AND
45:39 - COUNTY SURVEYOR IN MIND
45:41 - INSPECTOR. HE
45:42 - WAS COMMITTED TO THE
45:44 - DEVELOPMENT OF SCRANTON
45:46 - IMPROVING THE WORKING
45:47 - CONDITIONS. 4 MINERS. IT WAS
45:50 - SAID THAT HE POSSESSED A STRONG
45:52 - AND VIGOROUS CONSTITUTION AND
45:54 - HE LED AN UPRIGHT LIFE. IT WAS
45:57 - HELD IN THE HIGHEST.
45:58 - THE STEAM. IT IS WITHOUT A
46:00 - DOUBT THAT HE WAS AN EXTREMELY
46:02 - INFLUENTIAL MAN
46:04 - WHO HAD A GREAT IMPACT ON THE
46:06 - LIVES OF NORTHEASTERN. A
46:09 - CONSULTING.
46:12 - I'M GOING TO TURN THIS OVER 2.
46:17 - WHO'S GOING TO TALK ABOUT
46:18 - PATRICK'S FIRST WAR.
46:20 - CHILD NOW BEFORE I DO THAT I I
46:23 - DIDN'T HAVE THIS IN THE PROGRAM
46:24 - UNTIL I TALKED TO.
46:27 - TOM AND MARY SWEENEY AND I
46:28 - TALKED TO THEIR COUSIN.
46:33 - LINE. AND HE
46:35 - GOES BY AND THEY GAVE ME AN
46:37 - INTERESTING STORY AND I AND I
46:39 - HAVE TO SHARE IT BEFORE WE MOVE
46:40 - ON TO EDWARD AND BLOW IT
46:43 - AND THEY TOLD ME THE STORY
46:46 - OF EDWARD. LITTLE PATRICK'S
46:49 - FATHER, EDWARD
46:50 - BLEW IT. CAME HERE IN
46:53 - 1851 AND HIS BROTHERS WERE BACK
46:56 - IN IRELAND. ONE OF HIS BROTHERS
46:58 - THOMAS. WHO WAS SHOT AND
47:00 - KILLED.
47:08 - MET THOSE CHILDREN IN NEW
47:10 - YORK CITY IN 1856 OR 1857 MARY
47:14 - SWEENEY WOULD KNOW THE STATE I
47:15 - THINK.
47:17 - AND SHOULD THEM BACK
47:20 - TO SCRANTON
47:21 - WHERE THEY WERE RAISED IN IN IN
47:24 - CAME INTO THE WORLD THERE'S A
47:25 - BOOK. ABOUT
47:27 - ABOUT THEIR LIVES AND BECAUSE
47:30 - CALL SYRIA. AND IT'S ABOUT
47:33 - THOMAS'S CHILDREN AND COMING UP
47:35 - IN AMERICA AND IT'S WRITTEN BY
47:38 - ONE OF THE DESCENDANTS IN THAT
47:40 - LINE OF THE BLUE IT'S WHICH I
47:41 - THOUGHT WAS EXTREMELY
47:42 - INTERESTING IN AND CHOP PLAYING
47:44 - AND HAS PROMISED TO SEND ME A A
47:47 - MANUSCRIPT. AS BEST
47:49 - HE COULD OF THIS BOOK BECAUSE
47:51 - I'M I'M FASCINATED. I DO WANT
47:53 - TO READ. SO I JUST WANTED TO
47:55 - INTERJECT THAT BEFORE WE WE
47:57 - MOVE
47:57 - ON TO AND WORD F SCHOOL SO
48:00 - TIMING AND LET YOU TAKE OVER
48:01 - FROM THERE. THANK YOU KEN AND I
48:03 - SEE MARY SWEENEY ENTIRE SCREEN,
48:04 - YOU'RE HOLDING UP A PICTURE.
48:06 - WE GOT A PICTURE
48:06 - HOLDING UP
48:07 - A COPY OF CELIA AN INTERESTING.
48:11 - ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU ALL, THANK
48:13 - YOU PRESSED ME TO GET INVOLVED
48:14 - IN THIS AS YOU KUZ LONGTIME
48:17 - FRIENDS AND NOW FELLOW G HOURS.
48:21 - SO BY TIM HAS DONE THE LION'S
48:23 - SHARE OF THE WORK ON THIS
48:24 - PROJECT THAT THEY CAN DO THAT
48:26 - THE ECONOMY OVER THE WEEKEND
48:27 - AND SAID HEY WOULD YOU MIND,
48:29 - JUMPING IN AND TELLING US AND
48:32 - PRESENTING ABOUT EDWARD AND
48:34 - LIKE I SAID I'D BE HAPPY TO DO
48:36 - SO. FLUID EVER. FRANCES BLEW
48:39 - IT.
48:40 - WAS BORN IN NEW ORLEANS ON
48:41 - JANUARY SECOND 1859.
48:44 - AND HE WAS A SORT OF KATHERINE
48:46 - SCANLON LOT. AND PATRICK
48:48 - HIGHEST LOU. I CAN JUST TELL US
48:50 - ABOUT.
48:52 - AND WHAT WAS THEIR FIRST WE
48:54 - KNOW FROM THAT 1860 FEDERAL
48:56 - CENSUS.
48:58 - THE BLUES WERE BACK IN SCRANTON
49:00 - FROM NEW ORLEANS BY JULY OF
49:02 - 1860.
49:04 - AND WE'RE FRANCIS LUI A
49:06 - LAFAYETTE COLLEGE GRADUATE IN
49:08 - 1879. I RECEIVED A BACHELOR'S
49:10 - DEGREE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING SO
49:11 - WE FOLLOW AND THE FAMILY
49:13 - TRADITION
49:13 - OF ENGINEER. EVER WHO WAS CLASS
49:16 - PRESIDENT OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE
49:18 - FOR HIS SENIOR YEAR.
49:20 - THROUGHOUT THE REMAINDER OF HIS
49:21 - LIFE AND
49:21 - WE'RE DREAMING ACTIVE IN
49:23 - LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ALUMNI
49:24 - AFFAIRS, HE SERVED AS.
49:26 - PRESIDENT OF THE LAFAYETTE
49:27 - COLLEGE ALUMNI SOCIETY AND
49:28 - SEVERAL OCCASIONS AND HIS SIDE
49:30 - TO A SIZE HIS 2 SONS ROBERT
49:32 - MARKER. BOTH ATTENDED
49:34 - LAFAYETTE.
49:36 - IN 1879 EDWARD MARY MARY ELLEN
49:39 - STANDARD. SHE WAS A
49:41 - HORSE RACING INDUSTRY AND TONY
49:43 - HAS YOUR DAUGHTER. JUST A
49:45 - STAND-IN MERRIER.
49:47 - AND REMARRY ON STANDING IN FOR
49:49 - TRUMP. WHO WAS BORN IN
49:52 - 1880. ROBERT BORN,
49:54 - 1881. ARTHUR BOARD, 1884.
49:58 - AND GERALDINE OR
49:59 - 1887. GERALDINE BLOW IT WILL
50:02 - LEARN OR LATER ON IN MY
50:03 - PRESENTATION, SHE IS THE
50:04 - GRANDMOTHER. PRESIDENT ELECT
50:06 - JOE BIDEN GERALDINE MARRIED IN
50:08 - REAL SPENDING.
50:11 - 1888 UNFORTUNATELY, EDWARDS
50:13 - WIFE ARIEL AND I CRY FOR
50:15 - PNEUMONIA, 28. LEAVING A WORD
50:17 - TO RAISE 4 YOUNG CHILDREN UNDER
50:19 - 10 YEARS OF AGE.
50:21 - NOW THE TESTING TO EDWARD SENSE
50:23 - OF SECURITY. I WAS A SCHOOL
50:25 - CONTROLLERS SCHOOL DIRECTOR IN
50:27 - SCRANTON IN YOUR EARLY 1880'S.
50:30 - AND IN
50:31 - 1884. HE WAS SELECTED AS
50:33 - CITY ENGINEER GRANTED. HE
50:36 - WORKED FOR MER PARENTS POWER.
50:39 - HERE'S HOW EARLY IS BETTER
50:40 - KNOWN ONLY AS THE MAYOR IS
50:42 - CREATED BY. HE WAS THE NATIONAL
50:44 - LEADER OF THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR
50:45 - IN THE 1880'S AND THAT WAS A
50:47 - NATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION.
50:50 - I SPOKE EARLIER ABOUT EVER
50:52 - LEWIS.
50:53 - OR YOU DIDN'T MENTION THAT I'M
50:54 - SORRY I MISSED A PAYCHECK TO
50:56 - PUT THAT UP NOW ON THE SCREEN.
50:57 - IF YOU LOOK IT WAS AN ARTICLE
50:59 - IN THE SUNDAY TIMES A FEW WEEKS
51:00 - AGO. AND THIS IS
51:02 - A PAYCHECK. THAT WAS MADE
51:04 - PAYABLE TO EDWARD BLUM
51:06 - 2/2/1884. AND THAT WAS SIGNED
51:08 - BY MERE APPEARANCE POWER.
51:11 - SO A VERY IT WAS AN ARTICLE
51:13 - GOVERNMENT SCRANTON COLLECT
51:14 - THESE OR ACTUALLY MEMORABILIA
51:16 - IN. JOE BIDEN WAS ELECTED
51:18 - PRESIDENT HIS GRANDPARENTS IN A
51:19 - WONDERFUL ARTICLE ABOUT.
51:22 - THIS PARTICULAR PAYCHECK AND
51:23 - IT'S TOUGH. THE STORE SELLS
51:25 - HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE.
51:27 - NOW WHILE WE'RE BELOW IT WAS
51:29 - CITY ENGINEER FROM 8084 TO 89
51:31 - GRATEFUL. A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT
51:33 - DEVELOPMENTS TOOK PLACE.
51:36 - BEFORE THE FIRST LAYING OF
51:37 - ASPHALT PAVEMENT IN THE CITY.
51:39 - THE RENAMING OF LAYING OUT OF
51:41 - CITY STREETS. THE FIRST FREE
51:43 - DELIVERY OF MAIL IN SCRANTON
51:45 - AND THE PLANNING AND
51:46 - CONSTRUCTION OF THE SEASHORE
51:47 - SYSTEM MUCH OF WHICH REMAINS IN
51:49 - PLACE TODAY.
51:53 - IN HIS
51:53 - CAPACITY AS PROFESSIONAL CIVIL
51:55 - ENGINEER EVER WAS AN EXPERT ON
51:56 - COAL MINING OPERATIONS,
51:58 - ESPECIALLY THE VALUE OF COOL
52:00 - AND THE VALUE OF THE MINES THAT
52:01 - PRODUCE THE BALL.
52:03 - AND IN THAT CAPACITY, HE
52:04 - RECOVERED A SYSTEM A SCHEME
52:06 - ACTUALLY. IT WAS BEING UTILIZED
52:08 - BY FOR MY COMPANY OPERATORS
52:10 - WHERE THEY WOULD BE SCHOOL
52:11 - PRODUCING PROPERTIES, A SHELL
52:13 - COMPANIES AND 3RD PARTIES I
52:15 - WOULD PAY TAXES.
52:19 - IN DISCOVERING THIS INGREDIENT,
52:20 - THE PUBLIC LIFE.
52:21 - A LOT FOR THE FAIR ASSESSMENT
52:23 - OF FOR
52:24 - MINING OPERATORS. SO THAT THE
52:26 - CALL COMPANIES WOULD PAY THEIR
52:27 - FAIR SHARE OF TAXES.
52:30 - NOW IN 1897 EVER LOWER.
52:33 - ONE OF THE HARM MEXICO.
52:36 - VERY TOOK THE POSITION OF CHIEF
52:38 - ENGINEER FOR THAT CITY.
52:39 - AND HE LATER BECAME CHIEF
52:41 - ENGINEER FOR THE STATE OF
52:42 - MEXICO, WHERE BOTTLE OF OUR IS
52:45 - LOCATED. SO FOR ABOUT THE NEXT
52:47 - 10 YEARS.
52:48 - EDWARDS, TRAVEL BACK AND FORTH
52:50 - WITH MAINLY
52:50 - IN MEXICO. I OVERSAW THE
52:52 - CONSTRUCTION OF THE SEWER AND
52:54 - WATER SYSTEM THE CITY OF
52:55 - GUADALAJARA.
52:57 - NOW IN $1897 THAT COST.
53:01 - ADJUSTING FOR TODAY'S
53:03 - PURCHASING POWER. I THINK IT
53:05 - WILL BE A LITTLE OVER A
53:06 - 100 MILLION DOLLARS SO I WAS A
53:08 - PRETTY LARGE A LARGE ENDEAVOR.
53:10 - AND WHILE HE WAS IN MEXICO.
53:12 - HE HAD OTHER PRIZES HE ALSO
53:14 - FOUND IT AND PRIVATE BUSINESS
53:15 - ENDEAVOR CALLED THE LACKAWANNA
53:17 - MY. IN THE EARLY 1900'S, HE
53:21 - ALSO FOUNDED THE EDWARD F
53:23 - SCHOOL MINING COMPANY AND THAT
53:25 - WAS A PUBLIC
53:26 - TRADED GOLD AND SILVER MINING
53:27 - OPERATIONS IN THE STATE OF MIND
53:29 - AND. IN
53:31 - 19 '06 AND WE'RE BELOW
53:33 - RETURNS GRANDSON AND IN MAY OF
53:35 - THAT YEAR ANNOUNCED HIS
53:36 - CANDIDACY FOR A SEAT
53:37 - REPRESENTING SCRANTON AS A
53:39 - STATE SENATOR IN THE
53:40 - PENNSYLVANIA STATE LEGISLATURE.
53:43 - HE RAN AS
53:43 - A DEMOCRAT SECURING THE PRIMARY
53:45 - NOMINATION AND NOVEMBER OF 19
53:47 - '06. HE WAS ELECTED TO A
53:49 - FOUR-YEAR TERM. THE
53:51 - PENNSYLVANIA STATE LEGISLATURE.
53:54 - BE A BUSY CROSS WRIST ENDURE
53:56 - FOREVER.
53:58 - HE ADVOCATED IT SUPPORTED
53:59 - LEGISLATION THAT READS AS A
54:01 - LOTTERY OF THIS FOR PROGRESS
54:02 - AND PROSPERITY.
54:04 - YEAH, OKAY FOR PENSION BENEFITS
54:06 - FOR CIVIL WAR VETERANS.
54:08 - THE CHAMPION WAYS RIGHTS IN THE
54:10 - 40 HOUR WORK WEEK, ESPECIALLY
54:11 - FOR COAL MINERS I ADVOCATED FOR
54:14 - STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM.
54:16 - HE HELPED CREATE A STATE
54:17 - WORKERS COMPENSATION SYSTEM.
54:19 - WORKERS INJURED ON THE JOB.
54:21 - HE PUSHED THROUGH LEGISLATION
54:23 - TO HELP FUND THE CONSTRUCTION
54:25 - OF HOSPITALS AND SMALL MINING.
54:28 - ENACT LAWS TO CRIMINALIZE THE
54:30 - PRACTICE OF A ROBIN YOU ALL
54:31 - NIGHT.
54:33 - ANY PROPOSED LEGISLATION TO
54:34 - ORGANIZE AND FUND.
54:36 - RESCUE OPERATIONS. CALL MY
54:40 - NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS DURING HIS
54:41 - TENURE IN THE LEGISLATURE
54:43 - DESCRIBED IT AS A FIERCE
54:44 - ADVOCATE AND THE INTEREST OF
54:46 - HIS CONSTITUENTS IN SCRANTON
54:48 - AND A STRONG ADVOCATE FOR THE
54:49 - WORKING MAN.
54:51 - HIS EFFORTS IN THE STATE SENATE
54:53 - CAUGHT THE ATTENTION OF THE
54:54 - STATEWIDE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
54:55 - LEADERS APPROACHED HIM IN THE
54:58 - FIRST YEAR OF HIS TERM AND
54:59 - ASKED A RUN FOR THE OFFICE AND
55:00 - STATE TREASURER.
55:02 - AND WE'RE WHO REFUSE THAT
55:04 - CITING HIS DUTY TO COMPLETE THE
55:05 - TERM WHICH WAS ELECTED.
55:08 - IN 1950 WAS UP FOR
55:09 - REELECTION THE SLATE WAS PROUD
55:11 - OF HER FOR PARTIES, THE KIDS A
55:14 - DEMOCRATIC PARTY NOMINATED AND
55:16 - HER BLUE. THE
55:17 - REPUBLICAN PARTY, THE SOCIALIST
55:19 - PARTY IN THE PROHIBITION PARTY.
55:22 - AND WAS DEFEATED IN THAT RACE
55:23 - LOST HIS SEAT. I WOULD
55:25 - GENERALLY WALTER MECHANICALS.
55:28 - BUT HE STAYED IN THE PUBLIC EYE
55:29 - 19 FALL.
55:31 - HE WAS STILL INVOLVED IN
55:32 - POLITICS YOU'RE ORGANIZED AND
55:33 - LED THE SCRANTON DELEGATION
55:35 - AND THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL
55:36 - CONVENTION IN BALTIMORE.
55:38 - THAT SENIOR IN 1912 MAY MINING
55:41 - IS NEAR THE CITY OF SCRANTON.
55:43 - THE FOLLOWING YEAR WAS DAME.
55:45 - THE CITY OF SCRANTON MIND IT.
55:48 - HE WAS ALWAYS CIVIC MINDED.
55:50 - HE WAS A LIFELONG MEMBER OF THE
55:51 - FRATERNAL ORDER
55:52 - OF ELKS HE SERVED IN NUMEROUS
55:54 - LOCAL AND STATEWIDE LEADERSHIP
55:55 - ROLES WITH THE OWLS. HE WAS A
55:58 - STAR SUPPORTER
55:59 - AND WHAT WAS THEN CALLED THE
56:00 - SAINT JOE SAYS FALLING FOAM
56:02 - WHICH IS TODAY SAINT JOSEPH
56:03 - CENTER. HE ALSO WAS A
56:05 - COLD FRONT A LOCAL IRISH
56:07 - AMERICAN SOCIETY AND THAT IS
56:09 - THE PRECURSOR OF TODAY'S
56:10 - FRIENDLY SONS. SAINT PATRICK OF
56:12 - LACKAWANNA COUNTY. HE SERVED IN
56:14 - NUMEROUS ROLES OVER THE YEARS A
56:16 - BETTER ORGANIZATION AND HELPED
56:17 - ORGANIZE THEIR FIRST AN ANNUAL
56:20 - DINNERS.
56:21 - IN 1919 WAS A KEY ORGANIZER OF
56:24 - THE WELCOME HOME BASE AND
56:25 - PARADES WELL COMING
56:27 - AND FEEDING A LOCAL VETERANS
56:29 - RETURNING FROM WORLD WAR.
56:31 - I MENTIONED EARLIER THAT HIS
56:33 - FIRST WIFE PASSED AWAY ANY 88.
56:35 - HE DIDN'T REMARRY MARRIED A
56:36 - WOMAN NAMED MARIANNE BLACKWELL
56:39 - SHE WAS A NATIVE OF HAZLETON
56:40 - THEY DID NOT HAVE ANY CHILDREN
56:42 - AND SHE PASSED AWAY IN 1934.
56:46 - THE 1920 FEDERAL CENSUS
56:47 - DOCUMENTS SHOW EVERY BLUE
56:49 - RESIDING STAR GERALDINE AND HER
56:51 - HUSBAND, AARON ROSE FITTING IN
56:53 - AND 12 '09 WOULD LONGSTREET
56:55 - THIS GRANT.
56:56 - A 1920 CENSUS ALSO SHOWS
56:58 - EUGENIA FINNEGAN AND 2 YEARS
57:01 - AND 6 MONTHS RESIDING IN THAT
57:02 - SAME HOUSEHOLD AND WHEN WE ALL
57:04 - KNOW EUGENIA JEAN FINNEGAN THE
57:06 - MOTHER OF OUR PRESIDENT ELECT.
57:09 - AND WE'RE BLUE DIED ON MAY 2619
57:11 - 26.
57:13 - AT THAT TIME HE RESIDED AT 9.12
57:15 - DELAWARE STREET IN SCRANTON.
57:17 - HIS OBITUARY SANG HIS PRAISES
57:19 - AS AN. AFTER THE FIGURE IN
57:21 - POLITICAL FOR HER LIFE AND THIS
57:24 - COUNTY FOR
57:24 - 4 DECADES. THIS YEAR OLDS WELL
57:27 - OFFENDING DOCTOR AT SAINT
57:28 - PAUL'S TRIPLE THE GREEN RIDGE
57:29 - SECTION,
57:30 - A GRANDSON. AND HE'S BURIED IN
57:32 - SAINT CATHARINES CEMETERY IN
57:33 - MOSCOW. I THINK THE
57:35 - CLOSEOUT LIFE SECTION AND
57:37 - EDWARD BLEW IT BY READING YOUR
57:39 - HOME. THIS IS A POEM THAT WAS
57:40 - WRITTEN BY EDWARD FRANCE'S
57:42 - LOWER. IN 1923. AND IT READS AS
57:45 - FOLLOWS. OKAY THE YEARS
57:48 - MY FRIEND AND THEN YOU. NO SIGN
57:51 - OF INFIRMITY YET INTRUDE AND
57:54 - 804. IT IS TIME TO REALLY SEE
57:57 - YOUR MENTAL ATTITUDE. A CHARMED
58:00 - LIFE ELSE EVEN TO POSSESS.
58:02 - BILL FOR THE OVERFLOW WITH NO
58:04 - THOUGHT. JORDAN RICHNESS AND
58:07 - THE TENDERNESS WHICH IS BOARD
58:09 - OF GREAT NEWS. HE WAS BORN AND
58:12 - SOUGHT.
58:13 - ALRIGHT TO BE A FULL TRIBUTE TO
58:15 - YOUR YEARS AND CONCENTRATE YOUR
58:17 - PURCHASES ALL IN ONE.
58:19 - I WOULD DESCRIBE YOUR NAME
58:21 - ALONE, THE SEARS AND WHEN YOU
58:23 - LACK OF ONE IS FOR
58:26 - AND THOSE WORDS WERE WRITTEN
58:27 - BY EDWARD AFFLUENT FEBRUARY OF
58:30 - 1943, A TRIBUTE TO HIS
58:32 - GOOD FRIEND. LACKAWANNA COUNTY
58:34 - PRESIDENT JUDGE H M EDWARDS.
58:37 - LITTLE DID WE KNOW ALMOST A 100
58:40 - YEARS AGO LATER AND THOSE
58:41 - SAME WORDS LACKAWANNA AS FOR
58:45 - COULD BE USED TO DESCRIBE HIS
58:46 - GREAT GRANDSON, AND THE NEXT
58:48 - PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
58:50 - JOE BIDEN.
58:53 - THAT AND I THANK YOU, I MEAN IT
58:55 - BACK TO YOU I THINK IT'S TIME
58:57 - THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL.
59:01 - WE'RE ALMOST DONE WITH THE
59:02 - PROGRAM HERE AND NEVER TAKE A
59:05 - WAYS. THAT I TOOK FROM
59:08 - THIS PROJECT.
59:10 - AND ONE OF THEM MIGHT HAVE ON
59:12 - THE SCREEN HERE THAT SAINT
59:13 - PATRICK'S DAY, ALTHOUGH WE GOT
59:14 - INTO THIS BUT. AND WE'RE
59:17 - NOW LIVE WAS SOME NEWS REPORTS
59:20 - SAY THE FINDER.
59:24 - IRISH-AMERICAN SOCIETY OR
59:26 - COMMITTEE WHICH WAS THE
59:28 - PRECURSOR OF THE FRIENDLY SONS,
59:30 - THE SAME PACKED.
59:31 - AND THIS IS JUST A NEWS ARTICLE
59:34 - HERE LISTEN AS
59:35 - THE MANAGER OF THE EAST SIDE OF
59:38 - YOUR COMMITTEE. I WAS AT THE
59:40 - GERMAN HOTEL AT THE TIME,
59:42 - I'VE DONE HE WAS EITHER A
59:44 - CO-FOUNDER OR THE FOUNDER OF
59:46 - THE OF THIS SOCIETY WHICH IS
59:48 - STRIVING TO
59:49 - THIS DAY. WE BEGIN OR EVERY
59:51 - SAINT PATRICK'S DAY WITH 1200
59:53 - MEN IN BLACK TIE. IT IS A
59:56 - GREAT.
01:00 - 02.520 LOU
01:00 - 04.689 WAS A FOUNDER ORACLE
01:00 - 06.210 FOUNDER OF THAT ORGANIZATION.
01:00 - 10.920 I REALLY WANTED TO IMPART
01:00 - 13.630 DURING THIS PROGRAM. WE
01:00 - 15.659 WE'VE HEARD SO MUCH DURING THE
01:00 - 17.420 POLITICAL. YOU CAME.
01:00 - 20.869 THAT JOE BIDEN THIS JUST A
01:00 - 23.299 SCRAPPY KID FROM SCRANTON BUT
01:00 - 24.839 THAT REALLY DOESN'T TELL
01:00 - 27.660 THE STORY. WHEN WHEN TOM AND I.
01:00 - 34.560 WE WERE ASTOUNDED.
01:00 - 37.880 THE IMPORTANCE.
01:00 - 40.959 JOE BIDEN'S ANCESTORS IN
01:00 - 43.460 SCRANTON THEY TRULY WERE.
01:00 - 46.159 EARLY PIONEERS OF SCREEN THAN
01:00 - 48.679 THAT AND SUCH AN IMPACT ON THE
01:00 - 52.179 DEVELOPMENT OF SCRANTON AND WE
01:00 - 53.800 WANTED TO TELL THAT STORY
01:00 - 56.309 MORE THAN YOU KNOW ENCOMPASSING
01:00 - 59.119 ALL OF JOE BIDEN'S RELATIONS
01:00 - 01.159 AND IRISH ROOTS. WE WERE
01:01 - 02.670 FOCUSED ON SCRANTON
01:01 - 04.990 IN PARTICULARLY.
01:01 - 07.769 PATRICK AND
01:01 - 10.319 THEN EDWARD AND THE IMPACT THEY
01:01 - 11.759 HAVE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF
01:01 - 12.760 SCRANTON.
01:01 - 14.870 I WAS GOING THROUGH
01:01 - 17.289 SUCH CHANGE FROM THE TIME THEY
01:01 - 20.020 ARRIVE HERE IN JANUARY OF 1851.
01:01 - 21.460 WHEN THERE WERE ABOUT
01:01 - 25.130 3,000 RESIDENTS. UNTIL 1915
01:01 - 28.350 1921, THERE ARE A 150,000.
01:01 - 30.979 RESIDENTS IN SCRANTON AND THAT
01:01 - 33.689 WAS THE RICHES PER CAPITA A
01:01 - 35.610 CITY IN THE COUNTRY. SO
01:01 - 37.910 JUST PROFOUND CHANGE GOING ON
01:01 - 40.069 AND THESE 2 MEN IN PARTICULAR
01:01 - 41.330 WERE VERY IMPORTANT.
01:01 - 42.870 FOR THE DEVELOPMENT
01:01 - 44.909 OF SCREEN SO JOE BIDEN'S ROOTS
01:01 - 47.359 IN SCRANTON HARDY AND THEY'RE
01:01 - 52.469 STRONG. THEY WERE PUBLIC
01:01 - 54.809 SERVANTS. THEY
01:01 - 55.810 WERE TEACHERS.
01:01 - 57.699 ANGELA PLOURDE WAS THE
01:01 - 59.299 SUPERVISOR FOR THE ARCH FOR THE
01:01 - 01.119 SCRANTON SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR 40
01:02 - 03.250 YEARS. SHE NEVER MARRIED.
01:02 - 05.980 SHE ENDED HER CAREER MARYWOOD.
01:02 - 09.919 AN EXEMPLARY LIFE
01:02 - 12.790 WILL BE AWARDS TO THIS DAY.
01:02 - 14.319 I BELIEVE IN THIS GREAT SCHOOL
01:02 - 15.580 DISTRICT IS NAMED IN HER.
01:02 - 20.420 AND I BELIEVE
01:02 - 22.920 THAT JOE BIDEN'S
01:02 - 26.529 ANCESTORS IN SCRANTON. LATER A
01:02 - 27.720 GREAT FOUNDATION.
01:02 - 30.579 FOR HIM TO BECOME A PUBLIC
01:02 - 32.629 SERVANT AND TO DEDICATE HIS
01:02 - 33.760 LIFE TO THE PUBLIC GOOD.
01:02 - 37.989 THE OTHER TAKE AWAY I HAVE FROM
01:02 - 39.599 THIS RESEARCH I I
01:02 - 43.109 SHOWED YOU MY FAMILY TREE AND
01:02 - 45.559 WE'RE DISTANT COUSINS FROM FROM
01:02 - 47.909 JOE BIDEN AS WELL AS SO MANY
01:02 - 48.979 OTHER PEOPLE DOING THIS
01:02 - 51.329 RESEARCH. IT'S ASTOUNDING HOW
01:02 - 54.059 MANY COUSINS, JOE BIDEN HAS AN
01:02 - 55.630 IT'S A PRODUCT OF THE LARGER
01:02 - 58.759 IRISH AMERICAN FAMILIES LOT OF
01:02 - 01.199 THESE FAMILIES HAVE 8, 9, 1011
01:03 - 02.200 12 KIDS.
01:03 - 07.010 MY
01:03 - 08.589 MY MY YEAH IT WAS ONE
01:03 - 11.540 OF 11 AND IN SO ON SO.
01:03 - 15.550 I WOULD VENTURE A GUESS I THAT
01:03 - 17.800 MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER.
01:03 - 21.290 49 OR 50 GRANDCHILDREN.
01:03 - 24.490 1415
01:03 - 26.609 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. ALL OF
01:03 - 27.839 WHOM WOULD BE COUSINS OF JOE
01:03 - 28.840 BIDEN.
01:03 - 32.299 HAS THE SAME I THINK HE HAS 45
01:03 - 34.929 TO 48 GRANDCHILDREN AND OVER
01:03 - 38.379 A 100 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND
01:03 - 41.869 SO ON IN IN AND SO THAT'S NOT
01:03 - 43.580 EVEN GETTING. 2.
01:03 - 46.450 OTHER
01:03 - 49.809 9 SIBLINGS WHO BE RELATED
01:03 - 50.880 BECAUSE OF THEIR MOTHER
01:03 - 53.009 AND THEN YOU HAVE ALL OF THE
01:03 - 54.739 OTHER BLUE IT'S THE TOM BLEW IT
01:03 - 57.409 IN THE JOHN LEWIS. IN ALL OF
01:03 - 59.869 THEIR CHILDREN SO THE TAKE AWAY
01:03 - 01.489 THERE IS AND I
01:04 - 03.959 DON'T THINK OUR AREA REALLY
01:04 - 06.330 REALIZES THAT THERE COULD BE
01:04 - 08.949 500 OR 1000 RELATIONS IN
01:04 - 10.629 NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA TO
01:04 - 12.469 THIS DAY. AND
01:04 - 14.419 CERTAINLY THROUGHOUT THE UNITED
01:04 - 15.420 STATES.
01:04 - 17.979 I WATCHED A LOT OF LOW
01:04 - 19.629 CLIFFS FROM IRELAND WHEN JOE
01:04 - 20.829 BIDEN WAS VICE PRESIDENT
01:04 - 22.139 MEETING WITH IRELAND AND MET
01:04 - 24.369 ALL OF HIS BLUE COUSINS OVER IN
01:04 - 26.759 FALLEN OFF. AND HERE TONS OF
01:04 - 28.010 RELATIONS THERE.
01:04 - 31.419 I THINK IT IS GREAT THAT WE
01:04 - 33.179 SHARE COMMON ANCESTRY, I'M
01:04 - 34.180 PROUD OF IT.
01:04 - 36.599 I WAS EXCITED TO
01:04 - 38.479 TELL MY AUNTS AND UNCLES ABOUT
01:04 - 39.720 IT WHEN WE DISCOVERED IT.
01:04 - 44.870 ONE OF MY. BEST
01:04 - 47.439 BRIAN HOLEMAN I PLAY GOLF WITH
01:04 - 49.059 THEM ALL THE TIME AND I SHARED
01:04 - 51.069 THIS SUN. HE GAVE ME
01:04 - 53.400 HIS OFTEN REPEATED LINE.
01:04 - 54.949 BUT DON'T GO THINKING YOU'RE
01:04 - 55.950 BETTER THAN ME.
01:04 - 58.789 I GOT A BIG KICK OUT
01:04 - 01.109 OF THAT AND AND I DON'T BUT I
01:05 - 02.389 CERTAINLY AM PROUD OF THIS
01:05 - 05.359 COMMON ANCESTRY AND I THANK YOU
01:05 - 06.130 ALL FOR
01:05 - 08.129 LISTENING TO US TONIGHT, TOM
01:05 - 08.950 AND I BOTH WANTED TO
01:05 - 11.449 SHARE THIS. THIS RESEARCH WITH
01:05 - 12.909 WITH ALL OF YOU AND WE WERE
01:05 - 15.419 GLAD THAT MARY ANN AND ASKED US
01:05 - 17.070 TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROGRAM.