William Cowper Brann it is a profile of Brann with a bullet hole in it. In the early 1890s, Brann, who had only three years of formal education, owned and published an Austin, Texas newspaper. He eventually sold the Austin "Iconoclast" to William Sydney Porter, better known as O. Henry. He repurchased it from Porter to operate it out of Waco, Texas until the time of his assassination. Following the assassination, Brann's wife moved the publication to Chicago, but still covered Texas issues. William Cowper Brann William Cowper Brann (January 4, 1855 – April 1, 1898) was an American journalist known as Brann
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