Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain was the sixth child of Jane Lampton and John Marshall Clemens. Mark was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. Four years later, his father moved the family to Hannibal where Mark grew up. While he was growing up, writing wasn?t what he dreamed of doing, he of being a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River. When Mark was 16 years old, he worked for his older brother, …showed first 75 words of 527 total…

…showed last 75 words of 527 total…he heard that his eldest daughter Susy had died. The grieving family wouldn?t talk to anyone, they wouldn?t say anything to each other either. When Twain paid off all his debts, his family started to go out and talk to each other. Twain an d his family became happy again. In June of 1904, Livy died, and Twain sold his house and moved to his final home in Redding Connecticut. He died on April 21, 1910.