Samuel Langhorne (A.K.A. Mark Twain)  CLEMENS

SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS, known throughout the civilized world as 'MARK TWAIN,' is recognized as one of the greatest humorists America has produced. He was born in Monroe county, Missouri, November 30, 1835. He spent his boyhood days in his native state and many of his earlier experiences are related in various forms in his later writings. One of his early acquaintances, Capt. Isaiah Sellers, at an early day furnished river news for the New Orleans 'Picayune,' using the nom-de-plume of 'Mark Twain.' Sellers died in 1863 and Clemens took up his nom-de-plume and made it famous throughout the world by his literary work. In 1862 Mr. Clemens became a journalist at Virginia, Nevada, and afterward followed the same profession at San Francisco and Buffalo, New York. He accumulated a fortune from the sale of his many publications, but in later years engaged in business enterprises, particularly the manufacture of a typesetting machine, which dissipated his fortune and reduced him almost to

End of Brilliant Career Came Peacefully - Biographical Sketch.

By Associated Press.
Redding, Conn., April 22. - Samuel Langhorn Clemens, (Mark Twain), died painlessly at 6:30 o'clock last night of angina pectoris. He lapsed into a coma at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon and never recovered consciousness. It was the end of a man out-worn by grief and acute agony of body.

For long hours Wednesday the gray, aquiline features lay moulded in the inertia of death, which the pulsation sank lower and lower, but late at night Mark Twain passed from stupor into the first nature sleep he had known since he returned from Bermuda and yesterday morning he woke refreshed, even faintly cheerful, and in full possession of all his faculties.

He recognized his daughter, Clara, Mrs. Ossip Gabrilowisch, spoke a rational word or two and feeling himself unequal to conversation wrote out in pencil:
'Give me my glasses.'

They were his last words. Laying them aside he sank first in reverse and