Joseph D. Hooe, was born on September 02, 1968 at Mercy hospital, in Baltimore, Maryland. He was raised for the first few years of his life in the small working-class neighborhood of Arbutus, Maryland, and later moved to Linthicum Heights, Maryland. His mother is Ann Teresa O'Neill Hooe, the second miracle of our first American born saint Elizabeth Ann Seton. His father, Robert Eugene Hooe, is a Lansdowne, Auto repair shop owner who raised his family by providing honest, reliable, automobile repairs to the citizens of Southwest Baltimore County.