Biography of Samuel Langhorne Clemens aka Mark Twain

On November 30, 1835, the small town of Florida, Missouri had witnessed the birth of it’s most famous son Samuel Langhorne Clemens aka Mark Twain. Samuel Langhorne Clemens was the sixth child of John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens. What makes Samuel L. Clemens (Mark twain) is that he was born and died in the same years that Halley’s Comet flew by the earth. Approximately, four years after Samuel’s birth in 1839, the Clemens family moved to the town of Hannibal and his father had built a two-story frame house at 206 Hill Street in 1844, Samuel’s father was a judge,storekeeper, lawyer, and land speculator. Samuel was kept inside his house in Hannibal due to poor health but the age of nine, Samuel had recovered from his ailments. Mark Twain, also known as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was considered America’s most famous literary icon (symbol) during his era. (http://www.cmgww.com)

After Samuel had recovered from his ailments, he attended a private school in Hannibal. Jane Clemens became in charge of the household in 1847 when John Clemens had died from pneumonia unexpectedly. The Clemens family “now become almost destitute (empty),” and was forced several years of economic struggle - a fact that would change the career of Samuel L. Clemens aka Mark Twain. (http://www.biography.com) Shortly after the death of John Clemens, Samuel found employment as an apprentice printer at the Hannibal Courier which paid him with a small portion of food and in 1851, at the age of fifteen, Samuel had gotten a job as a printer, occasional writer and editor at the Hannibal Western Union which was operated by his older brother, Orion. At the age of seventeen, Samuel had left Hannibal for a printer’s job in St. Louis. (http://www.cmgww.com)

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...ven to them. We can research into American mindset of the late nineteenth century and make our own observations of history, as well as discover new connections, create new conclusions, and gain a deep understanding into the time period and the people who live in it. As Samuel Langhorne Clemens aka Mark Twain had once said, “Supposing is good, but finding out is better.” (http://www.marktwainhouse.org)

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Cash, David. "A Life Lived in a Rapidly Changing World: Samuel L. Clemens‚ 1835-1910. “Welcome to the Mark Twain House & Museum.” The Mark Twain House and Museum, n.d. Web. 20 May 2014.