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Moved to Hannibal
He moved to Hannibal when he was four years old. He swam in the Missouri River, exploring a cave that was only about two miles away from his house, and working as a typewriter for the local paper to help support his family. -
Forced to Move Out
Twain and his family were forced to move out of there house due to poverty. Thankfully they were welcome into Dr. Grants family home and lived above Grants drug store. -
Twain’s Father Dies
Judge Clemens dies. Making them move back into Sam’s boyhood home. -
Western Union Newspaper
Sam’s older brother Orion moves back to Hannibal and buys the Western Union Newspaper. Dan starts to work for his brother and eventually joins the Cadents of Temperance. -
The Move
Sam moved to St. Louis, New York, and Philadelphia to become a journeyman printer. Sam’s mother and other siblings moved to Iowa making it so that no more of the Clemens family lived in Hannibal. -
Printing Shop
Sam became an assistant at a printing shop in Cincinnati, Ohio. -
Pilots License
In 1857 he was the pilot directly under Captain Horace Bixby on the Paul Jones. This struck his interest in becoming a pilot. By 1859 he got fully licensed and piloted on many steamboats. -
San Francisco
Twain moved to San Francisco to work for the Call Newspaper. -
First Book
Twain got contracted for his first book, The Innocents Abroad which got published in 1869. -
His Own Family
He got married in February to Olivia Langdon Elmira and had a son, but sadly he died around the age of two. He eventually had two daughters a few years later.
