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1800
Twain died -
1835
Born in 1835, Samuel Clemens grew up in the small river town of Hannibal, Missouri -
1847
After his father's death in 1847. Clemen was force to live school and became a pinter's apprentice. -
1850
He published a few stories and traveled the country. -
1861
He decided to became a riverboat pilot. -
1862
Clemens took a job as a reporter on a virginia City newspaper, where he found his calling as a humorist under the byline Mark Twain -
1865
Twain published a short story entitled "The Notorius Jumping Frog Of Calaveras county"