Mark Twain

             Mark Twain aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835 - 1910
             Mr. Clemens was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. He moved to Hannibal, Missouri at the age of four were here received a public education. After his father's death, in 1847, Clemens began his carrier as an apprentice to a Hannibal printer. Later, he was a journeyman printer in Keokuk, Iowa, New York City, and Philadelphia. Then his life long dream of becoming a steamboat captain came true, until the Civil War ended his career. In 1861 he served as a volunteer soldier in an irregular company of Confederate Calvary. Later in the year, he and his brother went to the newly founded Nevada Territory, where he tried his hand at silver mining. In 1862 he became a reporter for a newspaper called the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, Nevada.
             In 1863 he began signing his articles in the newspaper with the pseudonym Mark Twain, a slang word on the Missouri River meaning two fathoms deep. In 1864, he moved to San Francisco where he met Artemus Ward and Bret Harte who encouraged him to further his career. In 1865, Twain started to write down a tale he had heard in the California gold fields. He named it " The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". Within months, Twain had become a national sensation. In 1869, he wrote a book called "The Innocents Abroad" about his 1867 to 1869 trip to Europe and the Holy Land.
             In 1869, he met Olivia Langdor and in 1870 he married her. After living in Buffalo, New York, he moved to Hartford, Connecticut. During the years 1870 to 1890, Twain was said to have written his best works. Twain's work in the 1890's and 1900's were seen as dark and bitter, supposedly because of the deaths of his wife and two daughters. Twain was heroed in later years. In 1907, he received a honorary doctorate from Oxford University. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain, died on April 21, 1910 in New York City. Twain will be forever remembere
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