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                            Chapter B


               Biography and History of the Method


David Perry Beiter was born in Troy (thus a native Trojan),
Rensselaer County, New York (east of the Hudson River, and thus a
genuine Yankee) on the Twenty-ninth day of March, in The Year of
Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-Four from the union
of David Luke Beiter and Elizabeth Perry Beiter.  He had the good
sense to move from Troy to Stillwater, New York when he was three
days old.

Education was instilled at Stillwater Central School,
Mechanicville High School, Union College at Schenectady, New
York (Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, 1965), Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York (Chemistry), University
of Kentucky at Lexington, Kentucky (Master of Science in Geology,
1970), and Fergle University at Cincinnati, Ohio (Doctor of
Eschatology, 1987).

He is a self-taught surveyor.  While at Union College, he was a
part of a group of several students who were doing research in
the local caves.  They desired to make a map of these caverns,
but the available methods used for land surveying were not
appropriate for cave surveying.  A cheap rugged surveying method
was then devised, as well as the first computer program to handle
the data (written in FORTRAN and run on an IBM 1620 computer
using IBM cards for data storage).  Further development of the
surveying technique and the computer program was done at the
University of Kentucky and a cave over twenty miles in length was
surveyed.

This surveying method was brought out into the light of day while
shopping for rural property in Kentucky.  Rural property is
seldom surveyed in the backwoods of Kentucky.  Someone shows the
prospective purchaser the boundaries as best that can be
remembered.  The land description is recopied from the previous
deed, along with all the previous mistakes.







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In 1971 the author purchased three springs and a remote farm at
Kidder, Kentucky, with the intention of studying the water
chemistry for a PhD dissertation.  In 1972 he retired.  In 1976,
he purchased and moved to a remoter farm at Ritner, Kentucky
(population 25).  Since 1972, he has assisted approximately one
hundred families to retire.  If you are interested in early
retirement and/or purchase of inexpensive (US$200 to US$500 per
acre) rural or remote property contact him for the latest list of
available properties.  Cheap rentals are $100 per month for an
old farmhouse.

The author is a confirmed hermit and ochlophobe.  He works and
lives in a slightly modernized Civil War vintage log shack on 1/2
Fast Farm.  His driveway is one mile long and has a locked gate.
Trespassers will be violated.  Survivors will be prosecuted.

The author is happily divorced.  His family consists of a jackass
named Gunsmoke, a tomcat named Forney Cat, a bitch named Yuppie,
and two kids named Billy and Capricia.

Copyright (c)1995 by David Perry Beiter

If you have any questions, problems, or comments, write or call
me.
Dave Beiter, CAVE Inc, 1/2 Fast Road, Ritner KY 42639.
606/376-3137.
MCI Mail: 635-1762
byter@mcimail.com
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