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BIRTHPLACE AND EARLY YEARS
be educated but who could find no girls' school that
met the MIaria Edgeworth requirements. He founded,
therefore, a school between his own residence, Bland-
wood, and the Porter home, which he called the Edge-
worth Female Seminary. It was the only advanced
school for women in North Carolina that was founded,
owned, and financed not by a board or a church but by
an individual. Teachers were brought from France
and Germany, the grounds were beautifully kept, new
buildings were added, and till the beginning of the war
Edgeworth enjoyed a growing and generous patronage
from the South and XWest.
The war converted Edgeworth into a hospital for
both Confederate and Federal soldiers. As the build-
ings were almost opposite the Porter home, 0. Henry's
father was kept busy in the practice of his profession.
The old Presbyterian Church, which O. Henry's grand-
mother attended, had also to do hospital duty by turns,
and thus father and grandmother were not only in
constant demand but were laying up a store of interest-
ing reminiscence that was to become a part of O. Henry's
heritage in later years. The war took its toll of Greens-
boro citizens though there was little destruction of
property. The town and county and State had been
overwhelmingly for union and against secession, but
when the order came to North Carolina to send troops
with which to fight her seceding neighbours, all parties
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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/m1/75/?rotate=90: 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.