The train for happiness is late...

On this day, June 5th, in 1910, O. Henry died in New York City at the age of forty-seven.

"He never wrote a line of the new play, as far as can be determined. The producer never heard a word from or about him, until he heard that he was dead. Nor did many of Henry's old friends, Henry apparently preferring to unretreive his reformation quietly, by drinking himself to death
alone. This took a little over four months." - Steve King


O. Henry's Characteristic Death
Fun Fact: In 1894 William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) started a humorous weekly called The Rolling Stone.
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