Mark Twain
by Courtney Derby
Birth
- born November 30 1835
- Florida, Missouri
- parents John and Jane Clemens
- Mark Twains real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Early childhood
- 4 years after he was born he moved to Hannibal, Missouri
- his dad died 1847
- as a child he wanted to be a steamboat pilot
- at age 16 he worked as a printer
Education
- in 1857 he began working as a cub pilot on Mississippi river steamboats
- he got his steamboat pilot license in 1859
- the next two years he worked as a steamboat pilot
- because of the American civil war put a stop to travel on the river
Cureer
- his 1st job was being a apprentice with Joseph Ament a publisher
- he worked as a cut steamboat pilot
- then volunteered in the confederate cavalry for a short amount of time.
- then went to mine silver with his brother
Family
- his mom was Jane Clemens
- his dad was john Clemens
- his kids are Susy, Jean,Clara and his only son Langdon
- wife is Olivia
- and his siblings Margaret Benjamin and Henry
Hobbies/Instest
- pining bugs
- writing story's
- playing Hooke
- reading Susy's beogathy about him
Extra
- his grand daughter is Nina
- his son in law is Ossip
- he died April 21 1910
- his daughter Susy wrote a beogathy about him