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Samuel L. Clemens, also known as Mark Twain, was born prematurely in Florida, Missouri. He was the son to John Marshall and Jane Clemens.
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Sam Clemens and his family moved to Hannibal in 1839, when Sam was four years old. His years in Hannibal included swimming in the Mississippi River, which is only a short distance from his house. He also explored the cave he immortalized.
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Poverty forced his family to move out of the Boyhood Home. During this time they moved in with the Grant family above Grant’s Drug Store.
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working as a typesetter for the local paper to help support his family after his father died. Family moves back to Boyhood Home. When Sam was only eleven years old.
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Sam left Hannibal in June to become a journeyman printer in St. Louis, New York and Philadelphia. Brother Orion took their mother, Jane Clemens, and Henry Clemens to Iowa, ending Clemens family residence in Hannibal.
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Samuel and Olivia became engaged in Elmira, New York on February 4. Later they married Olivia on February 2, 1870. They had 4 children together, one son (died at 19 months), and three daughters.
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Samuel & his wife, Olivia, moved into there new house after they finished constructing it. While living there, Clemens wrote many of his best selling books.
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Financial problems forced Samuel and Olivia to move out of the house they built. He relocated in Europe in in 1891 and traveled for a year to earn money as Samuel did lectures. They never did return to the house due to their daughters, Suzy, death.
