Meat man Pynchon

[jd]

He also helped found Roxbury

On 6/22/06, Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
> GR is full of pork references but the thing that came to mind for me
> was the Byron the Bulb passage wherein is described a collusion
> between the Electric Cartel and the Meat Cartel to leave more fat in
> the processed meat. thus reducing the amount of  tallow available
> for candles, upping demand for  bulbs, without due regard for the
> danger of increased heart attacks.
>
> I suppose the meat William's operation packed was pork.
>
> On Jun 22, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:
>
> > Accustomed to the literary games played throughout
> > Pynchon's postmodern works, there was speculation that
> > the entire gag alluded to his first American ancestor,
> > William Pynchon, who sailed with John Winthrop's fleet
> > and founded Springfield, Massachusetts in 1630....
> >
> > http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/ketzan_simpsons.htm
> >
> > William Slothrop
> >
> > William Pynchon is Thomas' colonial descendant, born
> > in Springfield, Essex, England on 11 October 1590. He
> > married Anne Agnes Andrew about 1623. The family
> > emigrated to New England on Winthrop's fleet of 1630,
> > Anne dying soon after their arrival. A few years
> > later, William married Frances Sanford of Dorchester.
> > William was the founder of Springfield, Massachusetts
> > and one of the Bay Colony's leaders until his
> > publication of a book about justification and
> > redemption, The Meritorious Price of our Redemption
> > (1650)....
> >
> > http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/extra/ety.html
> >
> > ONE MAN'S SEARCH TO LIVE LIFE ON HIS OWN TERMS
> > WILLIAM PYNCHON OF SPRINGFIELD PLANTATION
> >
> > http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/conn.river/pynchon.html
> >
> > Another Springfield First!
> >
> > The first book banned in the New England colonies was
> > written by William Pynchon, founder of Springfield,
> > Massachusetts
> >
> > http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/Pynchon/pynchon.html
> >
> > William Pynchon
> >
> > http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/
> >
> > McIntyre, Ruth A.  William Pynchon:
> >    Merchant and Colonizer.  Springfield, MA:
> >    Connecticut Valley Historical Museum, 1961.
> >
> > And, for the record ...
> >
> > Agawam is located at 42°4′19″N,
> > 72°38′39″W (42.071961, -72.644097). The
> > city borders West Springfield, Massachusetts to the
> > north ...
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agawam,_Massachusetts
> >
> > --- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Browsing the New Yorker files I  found something I
> >> didn't know.
> >>
> >> The city of Springfield, Massachusetts, has honored
> >> its leading founder, William Pynchon, by naming a
> >> handsome history museum after him and in many other
> >> ways, but, though everybdy pays tribute to him
> >> as a pioneer settler in the Agawam country, the fact
> >> he was the father of the meatpacking industry is
> >> always politely overlooked.
> >>
> >> from a March 27, 1948,  New Yorker profile about
> >> another meatpacker, Henry Blackman Sell. p.32
> >
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