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Mark Twain Events
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Birth
Samuel L. Clemens is born prematurely at Florida, Missouri, November 30 to Judge John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens. Halley's Comet was in the skies above -
Moving
Family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, where Judge J.M. Clemens, Samuel's father, began to operate general store. -
Mark Twain Home
Family moved into house known as Mark Twain Boyhood Home. -
Poverty
Due to money issues, the Clemens family had to move out of their home. They move in with Dr. Grant. Samuel's mother works as a cook. -
Bye, Father
Sam's father dies, family moves back into Mark Twain home. -
Apprentice
Sam becomes apprentice to Joseph Ament, who worked for the Missouri Courrier Newspaper. -
Orion
Sam's older brother Orion comes home and buys Western Union Newspaper. Sam works for his brother. -
Separation
Sam leaves town and becomes a journeyman in St. Louis. Orion takes the rest of the family to Iowa. -
Visit
Sam visits his brother Orion during the summer in Muscatine, Iowa on the Muscatine Journal. -
Work
Sam works for brother in Iowa for the Orion's Daily Post. -
Pilot
Sam becomes a licensed river pilot. -
Civil War
Civil War starts, Sam loses river boat job. Sam joins the Marion County Rangers and combats Union Forces. -
Mark Twain
Sam uses his famous pen name Mark Twain for the first time. -
Jumping Frog
Visiting Jackass Hill in California, Sam hears the tale of the Jumping frog. -
Published
"Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" published in an issue of New York Saturday Press. -
Re:Published
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County published nationally. Travels to Europe and the Holy Lands (recalled in his first book, The Innocents Abroad). -
Published Book
First book, The Innocents Abroad, published. -
Love
Sam marries Olivia Langdon in Elmira. -
It's a boy!
Sam's son, Langdon is born. -
It's a girl!
Sam's daughter, Susy is born. -
Mourning
Langdon passes away. -
Published again
Roughing It is publsihed. -
It's another girl!
Daughter Clara is born. -
Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer Published -
Seriously? Another girl?
Daughter Jean is born -
Another published story
Life on the Mississippi published -
Huck Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published. Best selling biography of U.S. Grant is released and makes the Clemmens family around $350,000 -
Mourning again
Susy dies of meningitis -
Yet another.
Olivia dies -
End
Mark Twain, beloved author of stories, great speaker, loving father, husband, brother, and friend passes away.
