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Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
Samuel Clemes was born in Florida, Missouri. -
Samuel Clemens Moves
When he was four years old, his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri. -
Clemens Moves Again
On this date Samuel Clemens moved into the house that is now known as his childhood home. -
Clemens Moves Yet Again
Family is pushed into poverty and is forced to move in above a drug store. -
Samuels Father Dies
On this date Samuel Clemens father who was a judge, died and they moved back to his childhood home. -
Sam First begins writing
Sam Clemens apprenticed to Joseph Ament of Missouri Courier newspaper. -
Clemens Continues Writing Career
Sam begins work for his brother at the Western Union Newspaper -
Clemens Gets Noticed
Wrote "The Dandy Frightening the Squatter" for an issue of issue of Carpet-Bag of Boston, Massachusetts. -
Clemens continues with a journey-man's life
Mark Twain Begins Two-Year Apprenticeship to Become a River Pilot. While there he adapts his pen name, Mark Twain. -
Mark Twain endures another loss
On this date Mark Twain's brother Henry Clemens dies while working on a steamboat. -
Mark Twain Tries his luck
Mark Twain moves out West to become a miner. Little did he know that his failure at that would lead to some of his best works forever securing his spot as an American icon. -
Twain Fails as miner
Not being successful at mining, Mark Twain took a job as a reporter for the Virginia City, (Nev.) Daily Territorial Enterprise -
Clemens Starts to make his mark
Clemens signed a humorous travel account "Letter From Carson – re: Joe Goodman; party at Gov. Johnson's; music" with "Mark Twain" -
Twain re-locates
In this year Mark Twain moved to San Fransico to become a writer. -
Twain gets first big hit
He published the short story, "The Jumping Frog." The stroy appears in the New York Saturday Press and interest in Twain's work rises. -
Twain Travels More
In this year Mark Twain took a trip to Europe and the Holy Land. -
Twain is on his own
Mark Twain publishes his most famous book, The Innocents Abroad. -
Mark Twain Finds Love
In this month Mark Twain marries Olivia Langdon. She was his friend's sister. -
Mark Twain Strikes Again
In this year he published perhaps his other most famous book, "Roughing It." This book depicted scenes from his journey out West. -
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Mark Twain Continues to Publish American Treasures
In these years Mark Twain publishes, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. -
Twain Publishes Another
Pudd'nhead Wilson is published in this year. -
Death Continues to Strike Mark Twain
Mark Twains Wife Dies. -
A legend passes
Mark Twain dies an American Legend for his writings and a hero in many people's eyes.