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He moved to Hannibal when he was four years old. He swam in the Missouri River, exploring a cave that was only about two miles away from his house, and working as a typewriter for the local paper to help support his family.
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Twain and his family were forced to move out of there house due to poverty. Thankfully they were welcome into Dr. Grants family home and lived above Grants drug store.
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Judge Clemens dies. Making them move back into Sam’s boyhood home.
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Sam’s older brother Orion moves back to Hannibal and buys the Western Union Newspaper. Dan starts to work for his brother and eventually joins the Cadents of Temperance.
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Sam moved to St. Louis, New York, and Philadelphia to become a journeyman printer. Sam’s mother and other siblings moved to Iowa making it so that no more of the Clemens family lived in Hannibal.
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Sam became an assistant at a printing shop in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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In 1857 he was the pilot directly under Captain Horace Bixby on the Paul Jones. This struck his interest in becoming a pilot. By 1859 he got fully licensed and piloted on many steamboats.
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Twain moved to San Francisco to work for the Call Newspaper.
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Twain got contracted for his first book, The Innocents Abroad which got published in 1869.
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He got married in February to Olivia Langdon Elmira and had a son, but sadly he died around the age of two. He eventually had two daughters a few years later.
