Mark Twain's Life
The Life Of Mark Twain By:Conner Hicok
Birth
- Mark Twain was born on Nov. 30 1835 in Florida and died April 21 1910
- He was the sixth child of John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens
- He was born 2 month's prematurely and had poor health for the first 10 years of his life
- Since he was taken care of he liked to test his Mom
- His Mom was humorous and that's were he got his humor
Youth
- He moved to Hannibal Missouri when he was 4
- His childhood friend based the character for Hukleberry Finn
- He based some of his books scene
- After his dad died he worked at several jobs in town
- His friend drowned and later he found a slave that his friends brother was secretly feeding it
Education
- He was apprenticed in a paper printer but they allowed him to continue his education
- At age 9 he joined a private school
- At age 13 he left school and worked at a printing office
- He stopped because his family needed money
- At age 21 he learned how to pilot a steam boat
Career(s)
- For almost 2 decades he was a itinerant laborer
- He went to New York to work at a large printing shop
- He persuaded Horace Bixby to take him as his riverboat apprentice
- He was afraid he was going to become a gunboat captain so he quit river boating
- He started writing books
Family
- His parents are John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemons
- His oldest brother's name is Orion
- His youngest brother's name is Henry
- He had 2 daughters
- One name is Clara
Hobbies
- He started a club called the Anglefish Club
- He liked to travel
- He liked to play "hookey" in his younger years
- He liked testing his mother
- His tone was angry in his later years
Extra
- He met and fell in love with Laura Wright
- His brother Henry got badly hurt from a boiler explosion on the Pennsylvania
- He joined the Marion Rangers but quickly left
- He submitted several letters to the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise
- Some of his articles and sketches appeared in the New York Papers