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O. HENRY BIOGRAPHY
the study of law it was under Archibald D. Murphey,
another graduate of David Caldwell's log school. For
fifty years after his death the educational currents
flowing through the county can be traced back to a
common source in David Caldwell.
But the channel through which he was chiefly to
exert an influence upon the Porter family was Governor
John Motley Morehead, the founder of Edgeworth
Female Seminary. Edgeworth, as we have seen,
played an important r61le in the lives of O. Henry's
parents, but after the buildings were burned the
spacious lawn was to serve in a peculiar way as play-
ground and dreamland for the son. Mr. Morehead
attended David Caldwell's school when the old dominie
had passed his ninetieth year but when his ability as a
teacher and his range of vision as a citizen seemed to
have suffered no diminution. Governor Morehead
was an admirer and close reader of the novels of Maria
Edgeworth and of her earlier "Essays on Practical
Education," written in collaboration with her father.
Miss Edgeworth's favourite contrast between the
social careers of young women who had been sanely
educated at home and those who had not, her constant
balancing of the simple affections against false senti-
ment and sentimentality, her pitting of the "dasher"
and "title-hunter" against modesty and native worth
appealed strongly to a man who had five daughters toI I .. . II II r III -- III II I I I I --
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Smith, C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso), 1864-1924. O. Henry Biography, book, 1916; Garden City, New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth139384/m1/72/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.