The bank accused him of embezzlement and fired him. The same year he started a job at a bank as a bank teller and bookkeeper but he was careless at bookkeeping. Porter was given a job by his Land Commissioner friend, Richard Hall but he resigned from the job when his friend lost the next election. On 1st July 1887, they eloped to get married. Meanwhile, he fell in love with a girl from a rich family, named Athol Estes. From there he went to Austin where he did different jobs besides writing. In 1882, he moved to Texas in order to get rid of his persistent cough. During this period he used to draw sketches of people, this was the first expression of his artistic abilities. He started practicing in his uncle’s pharmacy store when he was sixteen and got his pharmacist’s license from there. He got his early education from his aunt Evelina Maria Porter’s school. William Sydney Porter was born on 11 September 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
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