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John Marshall Clemens (August 11, 1798 – March 24, 1847) was the father of author Mark Twain and of journalist and politician Orion Clemens, who was the first and only Secretary of the Nevada Territory. Biography. Clemens was the scion of a Virginia family that owned both land and slaves in that state.
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Mark Twain was an American humorist, novelist, and travel writer. Today he is best remembered as the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Twain is widely considered one of the greatest American writers of all time.
What is Mark Twain’s real name?
Mark Twain is the pen name of Samuel Clemens. Although the exact origins of the name are unknown, it is worth noting that Clemens operated riverboats, and mark twain is a nautical term for water found to be two fathoms (12 feet [3.7 metres]) deep: mark (measure) twain (two).
Where did Mark Twain grow up?
Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri. In 1839 his family moved to the Mississippi port town of Hannibal in search of greater economic opportunities. In Old Times on the Mississippi (1875), he recalled his childhood in Hannibal with fondness.
When did Mark Twain start writing?
Samuel Clemens, the sixth child of John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens, was born two months prematurely and was in relatively poor health for the first 10 years of his life. His mother tried various allopathic and hydropathic remedies on him during those early years, and his recollections of those instances (along with other memories of his growing up) would eventually find their way into Tom Sawyer and other writings. Because he was sickly, Clemens was often coddled, particularly by his mother, and he developed early the tendency to test her indulgence through mischief, offering only his good nature as bond for the domestic crimes he was apt to commit. When Jane Clemens was in her 80s, Clemens asked her about his poor health in those early years: “I suppose that during that whole time you were uneasy about me?” “Yes, the whole time,” she answered. “Afraid I wouldn’t live?” “No,” she said, “afraid you would.”
Insofar as Clemens could be said to have inherited his sense of humour, it would have come from his mother, not his father. John Clemens, by all reports, was a serious man who seldom demonstrated affection. No doubt his temperament was affected by his worries over his financial situation, made all the more distressing by a series of business failures. It was the diminishing fortunes of the Clemens family that led them in 1839 to move 30 miles (50 km) east from Florida, Missouri, to the Mississippi River port town of Hannibal, where there were greater opportunities. John Clemens opened a store and eventually became a justice of the peace, which entitled him to be called “Judge” but not to a great deal more. In the meantime, the debts accumulated. Still, John Clemens believed the Tennessee land he had purchased in the late 1820s (some 70,000 acres [28,000 hectares]) might one day make them wealthy, and this prospect cultivated in the children a dreamy hope. Late in his life, Twain reflected on this promise that became a curse:
It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us—dreamers and indolent.…It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich—these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
Judging from his own speculative ventures in silver mining, business, and publishing, it was a curse that Sam Clemens never quite outgrew.
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens mejor conocido en el mundo literario con el nombre de Mark Twain, fue un humorista y escritor que nació el 30 de noviembre del año 1835 en Florida, Missouri. Su padre John Marshall Clemens fue un comerciante importante quien tenía una granja con esclavos negros y quien había dedicado su vida a cultivar la tierra, su ...
John Marshall Clemens Family - Mark Twain's Father, Mother & Their Children. Samuel Clemens Family - Mark Twain's Grandfather. Clemens Ancestors of Mark Twain - Traces Back 10 Generations. Discover the genealogy of Samuel L. Clemens, Mark Twain. Learn more about his family including his wife, children, father, mother, grandfather, and ancestors.
Uno de los grandes genios de la literatura universal. Obras: Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer, Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn... Género: Humor, novela de aventuras, literatura infantil... Padres: John Marshall Clemens y Jane Lampton. Cónyuge: Olivia Langdon Clemens.
Infancia. Samuel Langhorne Clemens llego a este mundo en el pequeño pueblo de Florida, Misuri, a donde sus padres John Marshall Clemens y Jane Lampton Clemens se habían mudado recientemente provenientes del condado de Fentress, del estado de Tennessee con la finalidad de estar cerca de un tío con dinero llamado John Quarles, quien era dueño de una tienda, una granja y alrededor de veinte ...
While his own father, John Marshall Clemens, had been serving on a jury that sent “slave-stealers” to the state penitentiary, his father-in-law, Jervis Langdon, had been funding “slave-stealers’” activities.
