O. Henry House Museum (San Antonio) 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 settler in 1855. The house, built in adobe brick, was originally located at 904 South Presa street. In the early 1880s, William Sydney Porter, better known as O. Henry moved to San Antonio and rented the two room house for $6 a month. Porter
William W. Porter Union League of Philadelphia. William W. Porter William Wagener Porter (May 5, 1856 - November 16, 1928) was an American attorney and legal author. He was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in the class of 1875 and admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 1877. He served as associate justice of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania from 1897 to 1903. Porter was instrumental in founding the Society of the Descendants of the Schwenkfeldian Exiles, and belonged to the Society of the Cincinnati, the Sons of the Revolution, the Merion Cricket Club, and the Presbyterian Social Union. He served as