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How a visit 8 years ago deepened Joe Biden’s ancestral connection to the Lehigh Valley Updated Jan 19, 2021; Facebook Share . It’s been updated ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2021. President-elect Joe Biden’s Scranton roots are well-known, but his family also has a Lehigh Valley connection, one that dates back to 1875. Shortly before he was to give a speech in May 2012 at Lafayette College in Easton, Biden, then vice president to Barack Obama, pressed both hands against a stained table full of artifacts. Before him were records and transcripts of time a...