William Sidney Porter House roof and the replacement of four brick chimneys lost in 1934. It is the site of the annual O. Henry Pun-Off, a spoken pun competition. The event is traditionally held the first weekend in May. William Sidney Porter House The William Sidney Porter House or O. Henry House is a historic structure in Downtown Austin, Texas. William Sidney Porter, better known as the author O. Henry, lived there between 1893 and 1895. The Porter house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 18, 1973. The house is known today as the O. Henry Museum. The cottage
Bertha Porter never travelled to Egypt. Instead, from 1924, she relied on Rosalind Moss to do field-work; Moss took over Porter's responsibilities upon her retirement. The bibliography is commonly referred to as Porter & Moss. Bertha Porter Bertha Porter (1852-1941) was an English biographer and bibliographer known for her editorial role in the compilation of the "Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings". Bertha Porter was born in 1852 to Frederick William Porter, an architect of Irish birth and from 1860 surveyor to the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers, and his wife Sarah Moyle; little is known of Bertha's life,