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 Field Porter died on 30 March 1869 at Mangatangi, [[Waikato]]. [[Category:Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives]] [[Category:Members of the Auckland Provincial Council]] [[Category:1784 births]] [[Category:1869 deaths]] [[Category:Settlers of South Australia]] [[Category:New Zealand MPs for Auckland electorates]] [[Category:People from London]] [[Category:English emigrants to New Zealand]] [[Category:19th-century New Zealand politicians]] [[Category:Privateers]] William Field Porter William Field Porter (24 January 1784 – 30 March 1869) was a ship owner from Liverpool, who migrated to South Australia in 1838. He relocated to Auckland in 1841, where he became a member of the New Zealand Parliament. Porter was born in London in 1784. He was