Samuel Langhorne (A.K.A. Mark Twain)
CLEMENS
(b.
30 November 1835
,
Missouri, USA
d.
21 April 1910
,
Redding, Connecticut, USA
)
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Samuel Langhorne (A.K.A. Mark Twain) CLEMENS was born 30 November 1835 in Missouri, USA
Samuel Langhorne (A.K.A. Mark Twain) CLEMENS was the child of ? and ?Samuel Langhorne (A.K.A. Mark Twain) CLEMENS died 21 April 1910 in Redding, Connecticut, USA.
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1835 Birth 30 November 1835
Missouri, USA
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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...Read MORE...
A Biographical Record Of Schuyler County, New York, S. J. Clarke, 1903
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...Read MORE...
A Biographical Record Of Schuyler County, New York, S. J. Clarke, 1903
From the 1840s through the 1880s, thousands trekked westward, carrying only a few belonging and supplies for the journey, and settling on the western frontier, forever changing the American West.
1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)
1863 - Samuel Clemens begins reporting for the Territorial Enterprise (newspaper in Virginia City). He begins using the name Mark Twain.
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A Short History of Virginia City by Ronald M. James, Susan A. James, 2014
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A Short History of Virginia City by Ronald M. James, Susan A. James, 2014
1863 - November 19 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.
1870 - June 26 - Christmas becomes a Federal holiday in the United States. It was still illegal in some states.
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Residence of Samuel L Clemens (Mark Twain)
"The Mark Twain House & Museum has restored the author’s Hartford, Connecticut, home, where the author and his family lived from 1874 to 1891." marktwainhouse.org
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1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)
1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)
First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented
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In 1906, Reginald Fessenden made the first AM radio broadcast on December 24th. This event marked a significant advancement in radio technology, paving the way for the modern broadcasting industry.
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Redding, Connecticut, USA
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1910 Death 21 April 1910
Redding, Connecticut, USA
He died at the age of 74.
1910 - Mark Twain World's Greatest Humorist Passes Into The Great Beyond
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...Read MORE...
The Charlotte News
Charlotte, North Carolina
April 22, 1910
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...Read MORE...
The Charlotte News
Charlotte, North Carolina
April 22, 1910
Samuel is buried at: Woodlawn Cemetery Elmira Chemung County New York, USA
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