Pynchons--THE TREE!!

[Michael Bailey]

grladams wrote:
> It remains weirdly engrossing to do this tree.

and to see it

>  children possibly could not wait to leave, possibly feeling the suffocation
>  of a family so meritorious and notorious, that it would only be upon
>  leaving that one can find oneself.

hee hee - sounds like you are familiar with "those little town blues"...

>  William Pynchon, b ~1807 in Massachussets who was in a household in Madison
>  Wis, described as a teamster. This would be fascinating, to imagine a union
>  (possibly activist) member and find a trail connecting him back to the rest
>  of this tree.

teamster was a name for a job before it was a name for a union...
i think it was the guy who managed a team of mules, or horses

If that William Pynchon was born in 1807, he was a little early
for most labor unions.  I think maybe the Knights of Labor was the
1st big union, but they didn't show up in force till after the Civil
War, did they?