During the few months between the First and Second Continental Congress, Henry returned to Virginia and organized a volunteer militia company for Hanover County, while also coping with the tragedy of Sarah Henry’s puerperal psychosis, a severe mental illness that sometimes followed childbirth – an ...
Fire memories come blazing into my mind. When I think of fire I think of campfires in Wisconsin, from the rolling hills of the southwestern corner to Door County to the vast forests of the north woods. I remember my first camping experience in the Chequamegon National Forest when I was ten...
Algernon Sidney Porter (1825–88), a physician, and Mary Jane Virginia Swaim Porter (1833–65). They were married on April 20, 1858. When William was three, his mother died fromtuberculosis, and he and his father moved into the home of his paternal grandmother. As a child, Porter was ...
andMaryJaneVirginia SwaimPorter (1833–65). Theyweremarried onApril20,1858.WhenWilliam wasthree, his motherdied from tuberculosis, andheandhisfathermovedintothehomeofhispaternalgrandmother.Asa child,Porterwasalwaysreading,everythingfromclassicsto dimenovels; his favorite workswere Lane's translation of ...
Algernon Sidney Porter (1825–88), a physician, and Mary Jane Virginia Swaim Porter (1833–65). They were married on April 20, 1858. When William was three, his mother died from? \o Tuberculosis tuberculosis, and he and his father moved into the home of his paternal grandmother. As a ...
WilliamSidneyPorterwasbornonSeptember11,1862,inGreensboro,NorthCarolina.He changedthespellingofhismiddlenametoSydneyin1898.HisparentswereDr.AlgernonSidney Porter(1825–88),aphysician,andMaryJaneVirginiaSwaimPorter(1833–65).Theyweremarried onApril20,1858.WhenWilliamwasthree,hismotherdiedfromtuberculosis,andhe...
Algernon Sidney Porter (182588), a physician, and MaryJane Virginia Swaim Porter (183365). They were married on April 20, 1858.When William was three, his mother died fromtuberculosis, and he an 3、d hisfather moved into the home of his paternal grandmother. As a child, Porter wasalways...
How beguiled I was by Houghton with its corner domes and 'more mahogany used in its interior than any house to that date, 1722-1732'. Duly impressed, where did I imagine that mahogany, and the money to buy it with, had come from?
wereDr.AlgernonSidneyPorter(1825–88),aphysician,andMaryJaneVirginia SwaimPorter(1833–65).TheyweremarriedonApril20,1858.WhenWilliamwas three,hismotherdiedfromtuberculosis,andheandhisfathermovedintothehome ofhispaternalgrandmother.Asachild,Porterwasalwaysreading,everythingfrom ...
WilliamSidneyPorterwasbornonSeptember11,1862,inGreensboro,NorthCarolina.HechangedthespellingofhismiddlenametoSydneyin1898.HisparentswereDr.AlgernonSidneyPorter(1825-88),aphysician,andMaryJaneVirginiaSwaimPorter(1833—5).TheyweremarriedonApril20,1858.WhenWilliamwasthree,hismotherdiedfromtuberculosis,andheandhis...