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Jun e #, 1948 MEMORANDUM Rez: Joseph P. Kennedy , JT. SBoeckground 4. Personal Hiatory ie oo a It was on Bast Boaton's Meridian Street that Joseph P. Kennedy was born on September 6, 2886, the son of Patrick J. ond Mary (Hickey) Kennedy. His father was a politician with a é =. ¥ coal business and part interest in a number of saloons, so that eitlhe, the Kennedys were moderotely well off.” Just the same, Joe : | peddled papers, sold candy on an ercursion steamer, took tickets ~ 3 on a sightseeing boat, and went to parochial school until the nk seventh grade. Then he attended the Boston Latin School where ; he mode a record for himself as an athlete. He continued his education at Harvard, gra duating with a B. 4. Degree in i9i2z, and entered the business world with $5,000 earned by driving o Sight. PR Oe I seeing bus during his summers at college. . Kennedy's Jirst Job was as a bank ercminer for Mossachusette, but after eighteen months he monoged to borrow enough money to buy part of the etock of the Columbio Trust, and in 1914, he was elected president of the bank, He was only twenty- five, the youngest bonk president in the United States. On October 7, 1914, Joseph Kennedy morrted Rose Fitzgerald, the daughter of a former Mayor of Boston, Gnd they are the parents of nine children. Kennedy's father-in-law made him director jor ~ LG-// 39-354