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Biography of O. Henry Biography of O. Henry • Name: William Sidney Porter. • Born: 11 September 1862, Greensboro, North Carolina. • Father: Dr. Algernon Sydney Porter. • Mother: Mary Jane Virginia Swim Porter. • wife husband : . Early life of William Sidney Porter:         William Sidney Porter was born on September 11, 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina. He changed his middle name to Spelling in Sydney in 1898. His parents Drs. Algernon was Sidney Porter (1825–88), a physician, and Mary Jane Virginia Swaim Porter (1833–65). William's parents married on April 20, 1858. When William was three years old, his mother died after the birth of their third child, and he and his father moved to their maternal grandfather's house. As a child, Porter was always reading, everything from classics to dime novels; His favorite compositions were Lane the One Thousand and One Nights and a translation of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholi.     ...