Joseph John Bense was born on December 25, 1883. Early census records describe him as a machinist, but around 1915 he started to work for the Philadelphia police department, first as a mounted officer (as he describes himself in the 1920 census) and later as a police detective. He married Helen C. Driscoll in 1912 and had five children. He died in 1937.
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