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 Dwight Porter Bliss French and Belgian soldiers interned in Switzerland. After the War, Bliss returned to the United States and preached in New York City until his death in that city on October 8, 1926. Bliss is honored together with Richard Theodore Ely with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA) on October 8. William Dwight Porter Bliss William Dwight Porter Bliss (August 20, 1856 – October 8, 1926) was an American Christian socialist writer, editor, and activist, as well as a pioneer historian of the world socialist movement. William Dwight Porter Bliss was born in Constantinople, Turkey