![]() ![]() ![]() He edited a daily newspaper in Buffaloįor a few months, and in 1870 he married Miss Olivia L. Or rather with an apparently informal talk, rich in admirablyĭelivered anecdote. Service to him when he appeared on the platform with a lecture Which he wrote during this voyage were gathered in 1869 intoĪ volume, The Innocents Abroad, and the book immediately To San Francisco, and it was a newspaper of that city which inġ867 supplied the money for him to join a party going on aĬhartered steamboat to the Mediterranean ports. The pen name of “Mark Twain,” from a call used in taking He went to the mines for a season,Īnd there he began to write in the local newspapers, adopting West with his brother, who had been appointed lieutenant-governor In 1861 the war broke out, and the pilot's occupation was gone.Īfter a brief period of uncertainty the young man started Graphically his experiences while “learning the river.” But In his Life on the Mississippi he has recorded At seventeen he wentīack to the Mississippi, determined to become a pilot on a Set type, and as a journeyman printer he wandered widely, When the boy was only twelve his fatherĭied, and thereafter he had to get his education as best heĬould. Soon after his son's birth to Hannibal, Missouri, a little town ![]() His father was a country merchant from Tennessee, who moved TWAIN, MARK, the nom de plume of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), American author, who was born on the 30th of November 1835, at Florida, Missouri. ![]()
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