O. Henry Timeline

By JerichoKaye
  • (William Sydney Porter) O. Henry's first wife Athol Estes Porter died of tuberculosis

    (William Sydney Porter) O. Henry's first wife Athol Estes Porter died of tuberculosis

    William left to raise their daughter Margaret.
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    O. Henry Time Line

  • Dial Telephone Invented/Patented

    Dial Telephone Invented/Patented

  • The Klondike Gold Rush begins with the arrival of the first gold miners in Seattle.

  • Boston, Massachusettus opens up the subway, being the first city with underground transportation.

    Boston, Massachusettus opens up the subway, being the first city with underground transportation.

  • William Porter was sentenced five years in prison

    Convicted of embezzlement of $4000 when he worked as a teller at the First National Bank of Austin. In jail he worked as a licenced phrasist in the hospital ward. He started his writing career in jail to support his daughter Margaret. Wrote under the pen name O. Henry, his friend would forward stories to publishers, (so they wouldn't know that he was in jail writing them)

  • Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, is fought.

  • U.S. political financial debt is about $2.1 billion.

  • The Galveston, Texas hurricane kills 8,000 people

    Today it is still known as the dealiest natural disaster in America
  • William Sydney Porter was released from prison

    William Sydney Porter was released from prison

    He then was reunited with his only daughter Margaret (11 years old) in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.

  • President William H. McKinley is shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York

    September 14, 1901 - Vice President Theodore Roosevelt is inaugurated as President due to the death of William McKinley (who died of gunshot wounds)

  • William Sydey Porter moved to New York City where he wrote under the pen name O. Henry/ He wrote for the New York World magazine and other magazines

  • A rolling Mill Mine disaster in Johnstown, PA killed 112 people

  • The end of a five month strike by United Mine Workers

  • The Lousiana Purchase Exposition Begins

  • O. Henry Best selling book Cabbage And Kings was published

  • The union Industrial Workers of the World forms

  • O. Henry's most famous story "The Gift of the Magi" is published

    O. Henry's most famous story "The Gift of the Magi" is published

    Is known to be his most beloved story, thought to be written about his first wife Athol.Is found in his collection of short stories called "The Four Million"

  • A magnitude of 7.8 Earth quake in San Francisco killed at least 3000 people

    The earth quake left 225,000-300,000 people homeless, and it made $350 million dollars in damages

  • Financial crises in the business communtiry with the starting of the Financial Panic and Depression of 1907

  • In one day 11,747 immigrants processed through Ellis Island

  • O. Henry married his childhood sweat heart Sara Lindsay Coleman

    The unhappy marriage fell apart a year later, she moved back to her hometown and O. Henry moved back to New York

  • New York's Time Square ball drop tradion for the beginning of the New Year is started.

  • First passenger flight in airplane

  • O. Henry's only interview ever... with New York Times

    Quoted from his only interview "I sent stories to newspapers, weeklies, and magazines all over the country. Rejections? Lordy, I should say I did have rejections, but I never took them to heart. I just stuck new stamps on the stories and sent them out again. And in their journeying to and from all the stories finally landed in offices where they found a welcome. I can say that I never wrote anything that, sooner or later, hasn't been accepted.

  • Whirligigs the last collection of O. Henry was published. Contains the famous story "The Randsome of Red Chief"

  • O. Henry died from cirrhosis of the liver which was caused by his alcohol addiction