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	Sam Clemens
		Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, on Nov. 30, 1835, the sixth child of John and Jane Clemens.
		Clemens had been sporadically contributing humorous letters to the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, the territory's most well-known newspaper, and, by September 1862, was accepted a job to be a reporter for the paper, at $25 a week.
		Clemens was buried alongside his wife and children at Woodlawn Cemetary, in Elmira, N.Y. In November 1835, at the time of Clemens' birth, Halley's Comet made an appearance in the night sky.
	www.geocities.com /swaisman/samclemens.htm (2329 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - Samuel Clemens
		It was in the West that Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, and although the landscape and characters of frontier life play only a small part in his writings, one can always detect a tang of the region where he found his literary voice and identity in his distinctively colloquial style.
		Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and grew up in nearby Hannibal, on the Mississippi River.
		Clemens had once humorously predicted that, since his birth had coincided with the appearance of Halley's comet, his own death would come when the comet next returned.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/people/a_c/clemens.htm (867 words)

	Samuel Clemens--Mark Twain
		Samuel Clemens became apprenticed to a printer shortly after his father’s death and soon after this, his brother Orion began working as a publisher in Hannibal and Samuel went to work for him.
		Samuel’s brother was appointed by President Lincoln to be the secretary for the territorial government.
		Samuel Clemens, now Mark Twain, was beginning to gain recognition as a lecturer and had his greatest recognition with his performance of the well-known tale, “The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” which was first published in 1865.
	idid.essortment.com /marktwainsamue_rhgm.htm (729 words)

	Samuel Clemens - Memory Alpha - A Wikia wiki
		Samuel Clemens was a 19th century author, humorist, and occasional moralist.
		Clemens overheard part of their conversation and became convinced that Data had traveled to the past for nefarious reasons.
		Samuel Clemens was returned to his time to rescue Captain Picard trapped in the past, where he also took care of the injured Guinan until help arrived.
	memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Samuel_Clemens (386 words)

	The Life of Samuel Clemens - Fun Facts, Questions, Answers, Information
		Samuel Clemens was born in the small hamlet of Florida, Missouri.
		Clemens said that Tom was "ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as any boy had." "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was first published in 1885.
		Samuel Clemens was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by Oxford University in 1907.
	www.funtrivia.com /en/subtopics/The-Life-of-Samuel-Clemens-175326.html (1544 words)

	Samuel Clemens
		Samuel Langhorne Clemens was noted for his fine white linen suit and cigar in most all his public appearances.
		Samuel Clemons owed his earliest national audience and critical recognition to his skillful re-telling of a well known tall tell entitled The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, first published November 18th, 1865 in the New York Saturday Press.
		Samuel Clemons was noted as writing and recording the history and daily life of his era with a humorous, yet deeply honest hand to pen.
	www.thepitbullregistry.net /samuel_clemens.htm (448 words)

	Catherine Barnes Historical Autographs > Samuel L. Clemens Mark Twain autograph, letters, documents, manuscripts, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A revealing, detailed legal complaint in which Samuel Clemens, the American author, sues the owners of a department store for their unauthorized and deceptive use of his name and image on a book.
		There is also a June 1901 letter to Clemens from Melville Landon, a journalist and humorist of the day who wrote under the pseudonym "Eli Perkins." Landon explains that he was the editor of the 1883 anthology that Loeser used for his counterfeit book.
		With this is a typed letter (not signed) from Clemens to his attorney, dated 12 June 1901, forwarding Landon's letter and saying he has received the complaint.
	www.barnesautographs.com /pages/inventory/clemens.htm (437 words)

	Hannibal.net \| The Hannibal Courier-Post
		Despite Clemens' love for the river, his first job was not on the mighty Mississippi, but as a printer's apprentice to Joseph Ament, who published the Missouri Courier.
		Clemens was decimated by the passing of Jean.
		Samuel Clemens died at age 74 and was buried next to his wife and children at Woodlawn Cemetery, in Elmira, N.Y. At the same time of Twain's death, Halley's Comet reappeared in the April skies.
	www.hannibal.net /twain/biography (2136 words)

	SparkNotes: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Context
		Mark twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in the town of Florida, Missouri, in 1835.
		Clemens spent his young life in a fairly affluent family that owned a number of household slaves.
		Clemens eventually became a riverboat pilot, and his life on the river influenced him a great deal.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/huckfinn/context.html (1034 words)

	Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
		Samuel Clemens was born and grew up in Hannibal, Missouri.
		Clemens described the residents of Hannibal as happy and content with the lives they led in their small town.
		Samuel Clemens was born in 1835, the night of the Haley's Comet.
	www.studyworld.com /basementpapers/papers/stack10_9.html (1345 words)

	Samuel Clemens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Clemens was born in 1835 when Halley’s comet happened.
		Clemens was married his wife Olivia and they had four children.
		When Samuel Clemens was young he worked as a printer for the newspaper.
	schoolweb.missouri.edu /rallsr2.k12.mo.us/elem/birkhead/mo/1.htm (207 words)

	Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Samuel L. Clemens grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, the river town that inspired his most famous tales of boyhood adventure.
		His father died when the boy was only twelve, and young Clemens soon went to work as a printer's apprentice to help support the family.
		Some scholars believe that when Clemens began to work on Huckleberry Finn in the late 1870s, he was planning to write the novel as a mystery.
	www.wwnorton.com /college/english/naal5/explore/clemens.htm (498 words)

	Samuel Clemens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Samuel Clemens was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri.
		In 1870, Clemens married and settled in Hartford, Connecticut.
		Clemens was a prolific writer, in part because of the constant financial stress caused by his bad investments.
	www.math.uah.edu /stat/biographies/Clemens.xhtml (131 words)

	Samuel Langhorne Clemens - Mark Twain - History Celebrities
		Samuel’s propensity to be sickly continued, and this time his doctor treated him with castor oil, calomel, rhubarb, jalap, and poultices, which were socks full of hot ashes, as well as various other water treatments.
		Samuel then arranged for a job for his brother Henry on the riverboat as a purser’s assistant or "mud clerk." It would be here that Samuel met and fell in love with Laura M. Wright, who was the fourteen-year-old daughter of a Missouri judge.
		Clemens, not wanting to be mistaken by the Union as a gunboat, returned to Hannibal and helped form the Marion Rangers, which was a group of Confederate volunteers comprised of many of his old Hannibal schoolmates.
	www.aboutfamouspeople.com /article1045.html (2667 words)

	Mark Twain Biography
		The Clemens family consisted of two brothers, a sister, and the family-owned slave, Jenny, whose vivid storytelling was a formative influence on the young Sam.
		Clemens married, and his finely-honed abilities earned him international renown as a writer, lecturer and traveller.
		Clemens lives on in the hearts and minds of grateful readers everywhere.
	net4tv.com /net4tv/bookworm/twain/bio.htm (560 words)

	Clemens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Sam was a very active student at Samuel Clemens and participated as an athletic trainer for the football and soccer teams and was a member of the yearbook staff.
		Samuel Clemens High School has established a committee for this scholarship consisting of Sam’s parents, a counselor, the principal, a teacher, and an athletic trainer.
		This summer a Samuel Clemens senior and student trainer Jessica Liddle spent her summer fighting for her life.
	www.scuc.txed.net /campuses/Clemens/News (821 words)

	Mark Twain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clemens passed through a period of deep depression, which began in 1896 when he received word on a lecture tour in England that his favorite daughter, Susy, had died of meningitis.
		Clemens' birthplace is preserved in Florida, Missouri, and the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum in Hannibal, Missouri, is one of the most popular museums because it provided the setting for much of the author's work.
		Clemens was awarded an honorary doctorate from Oxford, and the robes he wore to that ceremony and on many other occasions afterwards (including one daughter's wedding) are on display in the museum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samuel_Clemens (3385 words)

	Samuel Clemens
		Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835, one of six children.
		His father, John Marshall Clemens, was a freethinker, a persuasion not at all uncommon in the Midwest of that period.
		Samuel Langhorne Clemens died in 1910 at the age of seventy-five.
	www.positiveatheism.org /hist/twainver.htm (1830 words)

	Amazon.fr : Mark T-W-A-I-N: A Story About Samuel Clemens: Livres en anglais: David R. Collins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Beginning with Clemens' boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri, Collins chronicles the life of the famous nineteenth-century American author and humorist.
		Clemens worked at a variety of jobs (from journalist to riverboat pilot to prospector) with mixed results.
		While acknowledging Clemens' superb talents as a writer and performer, the author concedes several character flaws that affected his success, including a hot temper, a poor business sense, and a weakness for drink and gambling.
	www.amazon.fr /Mark-T-W-I-N-Samuel-Clemens/dp/0613683625 (541 words)

	Samuel Clemens' Steamboat Career - Introduction
		Samuel Clemens grew up on the banks of the Mississippi River near Hannibal, Missouri with a youthful burning ambition to be a steamboat river pilot.
		The dates Clemens' served as a cub pilot and licensed pilot aboard the steamboats described in this feature are based on the best reconstruction of events possible from Clemens' letters, notebooks, recollections, as well as other historical documents.
		Clemens, "but it was one of that kind of life-boats that wouldn't save anybody.
	www.twainquotes.com /Steamboats/Introduction.html (801 words)

	Twain, Mark. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		After the death of his father in 1847, young Clemens was apprenticed to a printer in Hannibal, Mo., the Mississippi River town where he spent most of his boyhood.
		In 1857, Clemens went to New Orleans on his way to make his fortune in South America, but instead he became a Mississippi River pilot—hence his pseudonym, “Mark Twain,” which was the river call for a depth of water of two fathoms.
		The Civil War put an end to river traffic, and in 1862 Clemens went W to Carson City, Nev., where he failed in several get-rich-quick schemes.
	www.bartleby.com /65/tw/Twain-Ma.html (768 words)

	Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) Handwritten, Signed Letter
		Universally acclaimed as America's most laudable humorist of a previous century, Samuel Clemens authored this handwritten letter in the early 1880s.
		As it happened, Gerhardt's young wife, Harriet, prevailed upon the now famous Samuel Clemens that he consider the promising artistic talent of her husband.
		So impressed Clemens was that he "invested" in Karl Gerhardt's future by funding his refinement in Paris' esteemed Ecole des Beaux Arts.
	www.americanmemorabilia.com /Auction_Item.asp?Auction_ID=25968 (547 words)

	Mark Twain by eMail - Biographic Information about Samuel Clemens
		Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, and later moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, where he grew up.
		Although he had a number of odd jobs early in his life, Clemens is best known as a writer who took the pen name of Mark Twain about five years after he published his first major work.
		Samuel Clemens began his writing career as a reporter.
	www.linkertonpublishing.com /twain/bios.shtml (459 words)

	Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain): Birth to Age 29 - Succeed through Studying Biographies
		Samuel Clemens (1835-1910) was popular newspaper writer, author, satirist and public speaker that gained fame as Mark Twain.
		Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835.
		Clemens was in New Orleans in January 1861 when Louisiana seceded, and his boat was put into the Confederate service.
	www.school-for-champions.com /biographies/marktwain.htm (1542 words)

	Samuel Clemens
		Although Tom Sawyer was not Samuel Clemens, their personalities are much alike.
		As a river boat pilot, Samuel Clemens not only found a new career; he would adopt a new name too.
		samuel clemens • life as river pilot • mark twain • meaning of mark twain • life of mark twain
	www.suite101.com /reference/samuel_clemens (173 words)

	Today in History: November 30
		Samuel Langhorne Clemens, popularly known as Mark Twain, was born November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri and spent his childhood in nearby Hannibal.
		As a young man, Clemens worked as a typesetter for his brother Orion's newspaper before following his dream of navigating the Mississippi on paddle wheel steamboats.
		While in the West, Clemens traveled to Hawaii and wrote for the Virginia City, Nevada newspaper Territorial Enterprise adopting the pseudonym Mark Twain.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/nov30.html (807 words)

	The Mark Twain House \| The Man
		Throughout his career, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) published more than 30 books, hundreds of short stories and essays and gave lecture tours around the world.
		By the end of his life in 1910, Clemens had become known as the quintessential American author having captured in his works the spirit, character and even dialect of a diverse nation.
		Thinly veiled behind the mask of humor and satire, Clemens' writing often critiqued social morals, politics and human nature, making his literature a unique reflection of the American experience in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
	www.marktwainhouse.org /theman/index.shtml (124 words)

	Samuel Clemens - Philosopedia
		Although Clemens would not like to have been called a philosopher, he might agree to being described as the first philosopher ever to discuss the moral position of the God who created flies.
		Clemens was one of the first seven chosen by secret ballot to be one of the original members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
		Clemens enjoyed speaking out bitterly on public issues, for example denouncing imperialism and objecting to the European subjugation of the Congo.
	philosopedia.org /index.php?title=Samuel_Clemens (1113 words)

	Mark Twain - Samuel Clemens Biography
		Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was born in Florida, Missouri as the third child of John and Jane Clemens.
		When Twain was just four, his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri to improve their fortunes.
		Stricken by the news, Twain refused to travel to the burial in Fairhaven, Massachusetts.
	www.poemofquotes.com /quotes/t/marktwain (506 words)

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