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Monster Essays - The Life and Works of Samual Clemens
The Life and Works of Samual Clemens
Samual Langhorne Clemens was born in 1835, and died in 1910.
Twain's father was John Marshall Clemens, a visionary lawyer and landowner
from virginia and his mother was Jane Lampton Clemens. When Clemens was
twelve his father passed away. After his fathers death Samual Clemens left
school to find work, and boy did he find it. Before his father's death
Clemens was apprenticed to his brother Orion, who ran the Missouri Courier,
which was a country paper. In 1853 Clemens set out for the East as a
journeyman printer. In 1857 he became an apprentice pilot on the
Mississippi, and remained on the river, as appre....
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