The Duplicity of Hargraves film by Broadway Star Features Co. in 1917 and directed by Thomas R. Mills. The cast was: The Duplicity of Hargraves "The Duplicity of Hargraves" is a short story by the American writer William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name: O. Henry. The story was featured in "The Junior Munsey", February 1902, and republished in the volume "Sixes and Sevens" (1911). Sixty-eight-year-old Major Pendleton Talbot and his practical spinster daughter Lydia move to Washington D.C. The Talbots have fallen from their aristocratic past in the South before the American Civil War and are now quite poor. The pair
William H. Porter Porter was educated at Middlebury Academy and the Saratoga High School. Porter helped to fund the creation of the Porter Medical Center in Middlebury, Vermont. William H. Porter William Henry Porter (January 8, 1861 – November 30, 1926) was a prominent banker in New York City. He was born at Middlebury, Vermont, and died in New York City on November 30, 1926. His first banking employment was as a junior clerk in the Fifth Avenue Bank of New York, where he stayed for eight years. In 1886, Porter left the Fifth Avenue Bank of New York to become cashier of