User:Pmcyclist

I've been a Wikipedian since 20 May, 2008.

I am an investment professional, Junk Bonds a specialty. I grew up in Wayne, PA and have lived in Needham, MA and Natick, MA for the past 35 years. I've been married for 32 years and have two children aged 25 and 23.

I am old enough to remember writing reports on a typewriter (a non electronic, instantly printing computing device), using wite-out to correct errors. I took computer at Radnor High School in 1972 where we connected to a DEC PDP-8 using a teletype. I remember the first personal computer I ever saw, an Apple II series, and the first I ever used, an IBM Personal Computer with no hard drive and 2 5 1/4" floppy drives.

I am interested in contributing to biographies, particularly people from Boston, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New York State, and the Muskoka Lake region of Ontario. I also contribute to articles centered mostly on those areas.

I am descended from the Townsend family of Oyster Bay, Long Island and Albany NY, from Captain John Underhill, the first Captain of the Guard for Massachusetts Bay Colony, from John Howland who came over on the Mayflower, and from the McAlpin and Brandreth families who made a fortune in tobacco and patent medicine respectively. That's why you see the pattern of articles that you do!

Articles I created [edit] 9th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Thomas Allcock Beaumaris, Ontario Benjamin Brandreth Brandreth Park Thomas Cass Robert Cryan Dale Cemetery Ditchburn boats Christopher Hemmeter David Hunter McAlpin Duke Boats, Ltd Edwin A. McAlpin Hotel McAlpin James McKay (industrialist) Old Eagle School Daniel O'Neill (editor) Eugene M O'Neill SS Sagamo Franklin Townsend Frederick Townsend Henry Townsend (Oyster Bay) Howard Townsend John Townsend (Mayor) Robert Townsend (Captain) Solomon Townsend Stirling Iron Works George Robert White Articles I significantly added to [edit] Rachel Foster Avery James F. Burke Benjamin Pierce Cheney George William Childs Cuticura soap Peter Folger (1617-1690) Granary Burying Ground Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania John Howland Dora Keen Lake Muskoka Frederick Townsend Martin Needham, Massachusetts Philadelphia and Western Railroad Pittsburgh Dispatch Public Garden (Boston) Public Ledger (Philadelphia) Raynham Hall Museum RMS Segwun Increase Sumner John Underhill (colonist) Articles I'm working on [edit] /Greavette Boats /Personal Sandbox Wikipedia Service Awards