Character:JoeBur

Mister Joseph Burgess was a retired investment banker in Boston in the mid-20th Century. He died of Influenza and an age-weakened immune system in the 1980's.

Post-Resurrection
Without his retirement fund, Joseph accepted anti-aging treatments so that he could return to work.

As the younger of two sons, he couldn't have mooched off of an inheritance in the Old Real like his sisters and mother, and so he was the only one who had long since resigned himself to earning his own fortune.

Because he had done it once, he did it again, starting a timepiece shop in San Isidro. Within a year, he had saved up enough money to claim a biological avatar of himself when he was 21 years old.

Although he was able to get back up on his feet, his formerly wealthy siblings, parents and grandparents could not adjust to losing the family fortune and remained scattered across Gaia. He tried visiting them in the hopes of helping them, but it became clear that he didn't take wealth for granted like his family.

While he gave up on his family once it was clear they had no intention of changing, the trips weren't a total loss. In particular, he met a guilt-ridden Henry Ford at the Hopeful Souls Soup Kitchen and soon had an offer to design clocks for the interior of electric buses to be run by the Gaian Electric Bus Company.