Mark Twain’s Timeline

By kylakyla23

  • Mark was born

    Mark was born prematurely at Florida, Missouri. His parents were Judge John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens.

  • Moved into Boyhood.

    Family moved into house known as Mark Twain Boyhood Home.

  • Father Passes

    Matk Twain father Judge Clemens dies which made family move back to Boyhood Home.

  • Sam starts working

    His older brother Orion returned to Hannibal. He purchased Western Union newspaper, Sam began working for his brother.

  • Move to California

    Sam California in May to begin working for San Francisco Call newspaper.

  • First Book

    he got contracted for first his book, "The Innocents Abroad" which wasnt realsed until 1869.

  • Published and Engaged

    Got engaged to Olivia Louise Langdon of Elmira in New York on February 4. First book, The Innocents Abroad was published. Lecture tour November to January, 1870.

  • Daughters

    Sam had two daughters Susy, born March 19 and Clara born June 8,1874.

  • Another Book

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was published.

  • 3rd Daughter

    Daughter Jean was born

  • 3rd book

    Life on the Mississippi was published.

  • Best selling book

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published. Mark Twain’s publishing firm releases a best-seller, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, an autobiography that returned more than $350,000 to the Grant family.

  • The end

    Sam started having heart complications returned home to Stormfield, died April 21. Buried in wife’s family’s plot, Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, New York. Halley’s Comet was in skies again.

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