He failed to establish a small humorous weekly and afterward worked in poorly-run bank. His wife and firstborn died, but daughter Margaret survived him. In 1884, he went to Austin, where he worked in a real estate office and a church choir and spent four years as a draftsman in the general land office. He left school at fifteen years of age and worked for five years in drugstore of his uncle and then for two years at a Texas sheep ranch. Mother of three-year-old Porter died from tuberculosis. His era produced their voices and his language. His biography shows where he found inspiration for his characters. Such volumes as Cabbages and Kings (1904) and The Four Million (1906) collect short stories, noted for their often surprising endings, of American writer William Sydney Porter, who used the pen name O.
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