John marshall clemens siblings

JOHN MARSHALL CLEMENS - MARK TWAIN'S FATHER.

He served as territory secretary for Nevada -second in command to the Governor appointed by President Lincoln. Orion had moved to Iowa at the very end of , he became active in anti-slavery politics, leading him ultimately to working for Lincoln's election in Orion served - Mary Eleanor Stotts Clemens Memorial - He only one of Clemens's brothers and sisters for whom no birth or death dates were entered in the family Bibles.

He was born after Pamela and before Margaret Clemens, late in or early in , and died at three months of age. Some confusion exists about his name. Both of his names were family names—John Marshall Clemens's two brothers were Pleasant — and Hannibal —36 —but since he was named after his paternal great-uncle Pleasant Goggin — , it is most likely that his first name was "Pleasant" Bell, 26—27; Selby, 77, 79, 93 [1].

Author, Humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He is remembered not only for authoring many books but also for his humorist maxims, quotations and opinions. Similar to many authors of his day, he had little formal education. His family moved from his birthplace Florida, Missouri to nearby Hannibal on the Mississippi where he grew up experiencing life on the waterfront.

His came from the print shops and newspaper offices where he worked as a youth, and became a licensed Mississippi riverboat pilot navigating the river for some five years. Roaming the west, with an unsuccessful attempt at gold and silver mining, he became a newspaper man in Virginia City, Nevada, acquiring the pen name Mark Twain a riverboat term.

His first popular story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" appeared and while traveling as a correspondent in Europe, he authored a book, "The Innocents Abroad" which cast him into the role of a noted author.