Katherine Anne Porter to American frontiersman Daniel Boone and the writer O. Henry (whose real name was William Sydney Porter), her father's second cousin. In 1892, when Porter was two years old, her mother died two months after giving birth to her last child. Porter's father took his four surviving children (an older brother had died in infancy) to live with his mother, Catherine Ann Porter, in Kyle, Texas. The depth of her grandmother's influence can be inferred from Porter's later adoption of her name. Her grandmother died while taking eleven-year-old Callie to visit relatives in Marfa, Texas. After her grandmother's death, the
William W. Porter William W. Porter William Wagener Porter (May 5, 1856 - November 16, 1928) was an American attorney and legal author. He was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in the class of 1875 and admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 1877. He served as associate justice of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania from 1897 to 1903. Porter was instrumental in founding the Society of the Descendants of the Schwenkfeldian Exiles, and belonged to the Society of the Cincinnati, the Sons of the Revolution, the Merion Cricket Club, and the Presbyterian Social Union. He served as vice president of the