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 A. Porter CA. In 1999, Porter and his wife Joan gave $25 million to MIT's Sloan School of Management: In 2007, the Porters gave 250,000 shares of E-Trade stock to Adams State College (worth approximately $5.8 million at the time), the largest gift in school's history. William A. Porter William A. Porter was an American businessperson who, along with Bernie Newcomb founded the first electronic stock brokerage, E*TRADE. After the success of E*TRADE, Porter also co-founded International Securities Exchange (ISE) with Marty Averbuch and became (the first) chairman of ISE on his 70th birthday in 1998. Porter was the former chief executive