PORTER, WILLIAM SYDNEY (1862–1910). William Sydney Porter [pseud. O. Henry], writer, was born on September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina, the son of Dr. Algernon Sidney and Mary Jane Virginia (Swaim) Porter.His middle name was originally spelled
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Agricultural Economist, Author. Dr. John Lossing Buck, known as Lossing to his friends, graduated from Cornell University in 1914. He later returned to Cornell and received an M.S. in 1925 and PhD in 1933. Lossing went to China in 1915 as an agricultural
Continue reading >>Serving as an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I, an eighteen-year old Ernest Hemingway was taken to a Milan hospital after an explosion badly injured his leg.
Continue reading >>With his marriage to Martha over and a divorce pending, Hemingway returned to Cuba. Mary soon joined him and fell in love with his cats, the ocean, swimming, fishing, and Cuba's tropical climate. On March 14, 1946, they were married in Havana.
Continue reading >>Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer, a devout Roman Catholic from Piggott, Arkansas on May 10, 1927 in a Catholic ceremony.
Continue reading >>One afternoon in the late winter of 1961, while Hadley Richardson was vacationing at a ranch in Arizona with her second husband, she got a call from her first husband, Ernest Hemingway.
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