Mary Jane Virginia (Swaim) Porter (1833 - 1865)

Born 12 Feb 1833 in Guilford , North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Algernon Sidney Porter M. D. — married 20 Apr 1858 in Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, USA

Descendants

Died 26 Sep 1865 at age 32 in USA

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Biography

Mary Jane Virginia Swaim Porter (1833–1865) was the mother of the prolific and popular short story writer who published in newspapers and magazines most commonly under his best-known pseudonym "O. Henry." ^[1]

Mary Jane was college-educated and on April 20, 1858 she married Dr. Algernon Sidney Porter (1825–1888), a physician. Their later famous son William Sidney Porter was born on September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina. ^[1]

When William was three, his mother Mary Jane died from tuberculosis, and he and his father moved into the home of his paternal grandmother.

Children

Children:

1. Unknown Porter
2. Shirley Worth Porter
3. William Sidney Porter
4. David Weir Porter

Sources

• Source: Wikipedia article: O. Henry

• Source: S800: Horowitz, Paul J. "Introduction" in Collected Stories of O. Henry ; Avenal 1979 Edition ; Avenal, Crown Publishers ; New York ; 1979

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Source: #S800: Horowitz, 1979