O. Henry House Museum (San Antonio) at the corner of Dolorosa and Laredo Street in Downtown San Antonio. It re-opened as a museum in 1999. While living here, Porter wrote several short stories set in San Antonio. These included "Fog in Santone", "The Higher Abdication", and "Hygeia at the Solito". O. Henry House Museum (San Antonio) The O. Henry House Museum is a historic house museum located in San Antonio, Texas. It is named for the American writer, William Sydney Porter, better known as O. Henry who lived in the house in 1885. The O. Henry House museum was initially built by John Kush, a German
William Townsend Porter bronchopneumonia on February 16, 1949. After Porter's death, Harvard colleague A. Clifford Barger remembered him with the description, "Physiology was Porter's religion; he had no other." Porter's papers are held by the Harvard Medical Library. William Townsend Porter William Townsend Porter (1862-1949) was an American physician, physiologist, and medical educator who spent most of his career at Harvard Medical School. He founded the Harvard Apparatus company, which produced laboratory equipment for teaching and research in physiology, and was the founding editor of the "American Journal of Physiology". Porter was born on September 24, 1862, in Plymouth, Ohio. His father was