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Mark Twain Timeline 1
Mark Twain timeline 1 of 6 from 1835 to 1852 at Timeline Help. American author and humorist. Wellknown for the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
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- 1852 | November 30, Samuel L. Clemens is born in Florida, Missouri during the appearance of Halley's Comet. His parents are John and Jane Clemens. He is the sixth of seven children.
The Clemens family moves to Hannibal, Missouri, a town on the Mississippi River. This town later serves as a model for the settings in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
Brother Benjamin passes away.
Takes his first steamboat to St. Louis. Olivia Langdon is born in Elmira, New York. She is the future Mrs. Samuel Clemens.
Father John dies of pneumonia at age 49, leaving the family in difficult circumstances. Ends his formal education at the age of 11 to begin delivering papers and working as an errand boy for the Hannibal Gazette.
Begins work as a printer's apprentice for the Hannibal Courier.
Begins working for his brother, Orion as a printer and reporter for the Hannibal Journal. Runs the paper when Orion is out of town.
Samuel's first sketch, A Gallant Fireman, appears in the Hannibal Journal. He also publishes sketches in Philadelphia's Saturday Evening Post.
Writes about Hannibal for Philadelphia's American Courier, though he stretched the truth about Indians in Hannibal.
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Bibliography of Mark Twain Timeline 1
Icon Group (2008). American Men and Women of Letters Series by Albert Bigelow Paine, Daniel Aaron, James Cox, and William Lyon Phelps (1980).
A Biography 1835-1866 Webster's Italian Thesaurus Edition.
Bigelow Paine, A (2008). Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
Powers, R (2006). A Life.
Kaplan, J (1986). Mr. Clemens and MT.
Lauber, J (1988). Making of Mark Twain. American Century Series.
Hawn, L (1972). Notes, quotes, remarks on Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn.
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