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, Orion. When he

left Hannibal, he worked as a printer for New York and Philadelphia. When he was 21,

he met a steamboat pilot named, Horace Bixby. Mark asked Bixby to teach him

everything about being a steamboat pilot. Bixby refused to do it, then after Twain kept on

harassing him, Bixby took the offer from Twain and made him pay

the Mississippi River for two years and at the age of 23, in 1857, he received his pilots

While returning to England with his family, he published The Gilded Age, his first

home in Redding Connecticut. He died on April 21, 1910.

Now Twain and his family settled into their new house in Hartford, he devoted

Twain?s pilot career ended because of the start of the Civil War. In 1861, Mark

go after her and he did. The next time he returned to visit her, he proposed to her again

their first child was born premature and only lived two years. Twain supported his family

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