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Birth
Mark Twain was born as Samuel Langhorn Clemens. He was the sixth of seven children born to the Clemens family. He was premature and very sick, Haley's comet was visible the night he was born. -
Leaving Home
Clements left Hannibal at age 17 with a degree of self sufficientcy. -
Leaves Missouri
Becomes a cub-pilot for Horace Bixby. Spends next two years “learning” the river, later described in Life on the Mississippi. -
Getting His name
Sam got his pen name Mark Twain in 1860 from the way in which the depth of the water was checked on the riverboats. He used the name on everything he wrote from that day foward. -
New Job
After Twain spent time out west he gets a job witing for the Territoriall Enterprise. -
Frogs
Twain travels out westand writes a story of the famous jumping frog. -
Olivia
Twain meets his future wife Olivia Langdon -
Marriage
He finally settled down an got married and started a family in Connecticut. Where he wrote many of his stories there. -
Depression
Twain passed through a period of deep depression that began in 1896 when his daughter Susy died of meningitis. -
Dies
Died in Conneticut at a reading.
