Edwin Pynchon

[Paul Mackin]

On Jun 19, 2006, at 12:30 AM, rich wrote:

> some tidbits about this inventor and doctor--not sure about Chicago  
> angle but seems like quite a character
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> rich
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> Pynchon
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> Edwin Pynchon, no location.
>    Pynchon (National Archives)
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> Albatross 1893 = Yes, that date is correct, and this patented  
> airborne hotel — the 747 of a century ago — is included in  
> Aerofiles as an interesting example of the creative approach to  
> manned flight taken by one of the early, albeit obscure,  
> visionaries. Data unknown, but note the suitcase rollers for ground  
> movement.
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> from Modern word--
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> But when you see a very real Dr. Schoenmaker in the Pynchon  
> genealogy, one Dr. Edwin Pynchon (1856-1914), composer of Surgical  
> Correction of Deformities of the Nasal Septum, you may legitimately  
> begin to wonder and think of Esther in V. Rockets, planes, and  
> Hawaiian lounges in the sky: they're all there. Was it mere co- 
> incidence that Pynchon & Co., Brokers, published The Aviation  
> Industry in 1928?
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> I also found references to Edwin Pynchon working at Chicago  
> Postgraduate Medical School in the 1890s--on surgery on tonsils


Wonder if Thomas has tried to figure out how he might be related to  
other famous Pynchons. Third cousin how many times removed--that   
sort of thing.

The Mormons could help and there might be a book in it.

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