Katherine Anne Porter.

The article presents information on the life of Katherine Anne Porter, a novelist and her grandmother. Porter was born in 1894 in Central Texas, which happened to be trail's end for one branch of a family which has been wholly American since 1775 and in some of its ramifications since 1680. Before it was American it was Scotch, Irish, English, Welsh, Dutch, with a dash of French and Spanish. Daniel Boone had a Pennsylvania Quaker childhood, Porter's background is Southern Catholic. Her name family has been in the South since 1775. In that year a remote grandfather Porter settled in Bowling Green, Kentucky, having come from Pennsylvania.