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Mark TwainMark and five of his brothers were born. marks real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida,Missouri in 1835
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Mark TwainMark Twain lived in Hannibal from age 4 to 17.
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mark twainApproximately four years after his birth, in 1839, the Clemens family moved 35 miles east to the town of Hannibal.
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Mark TwainWhen Mark Twain was 9 years old he saw a local man murder a cattle rancher
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mark TwainWhen Mark was ten years old he watched a slave die after a white overseer stuck him with a piece of iron.
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Mark TwainAt 15, he got a job as a printer and occasional writer and editor at the Hannibal Western Union, a little newspaper owned by his brother, Orion.
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Mark Twainhe began learnig the art of piloting a steamboat on the Mississippi
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Mark TwainA licensed pilot by 1859, he soon found regular employment plying the shoals and channels of the great river(Mississippi river)
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Mark TWAINThis trip was the beginning of his career as a travel correspondent.
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Mark TwainHe went to Europe to write Huccleberry Finn for all to read.
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Mark TwainMark Twain wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in a December Day in England.
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Mark TwainMark Twain died in his country home in Redding,Connecticut. He was buried in Elmira, New York.