Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born on November 30, 1835 to John Marshall and Jane Lampton in the rural town of Florida, Missouri. The family was a good old-fashioned southern family. John Marshall, a lawyer by profession, moved the family to Hannibal, in 1839 when Samuel was just three years old, after he lost faith in Florida becoming a productive metropolis. This small town on the Mississippi River is believed to be the base setting in many of Mark Twain’s novels, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Samuels schooling was brief and he never took school too seriously or put his full efforts into his schoolwork. Samuel dropped out of scho

Samuel was back living on the Mississippi River again by 1857 as he worked as a steamboat sailor on the river traveling round trip from St. Louis to New Orleans. He knew the route like the back of his hand and the entire time he worked as a sailor he did not get into one accident nor did he coast the companies he worked for a single penny worth of damage. In 1861 however the Civil War was beginning to break out with numerous southern states succeeding the Union, including Louisiana forcing his steamboat career to be put on hold. Once his steamboat career was put on hold Samuel found a job writing for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise in 1862. During his time at the Enterprise Samuel began writing his first novel, Roughing It, although it did not get published until later on. Roughing It is the story of two brothers who go on a journey and the adventures the encounter on their trip. This novel was based on a true story although a few of the details may have been a little exaggerated at times. After the writing of this book was written Samuel takes on his penname for which he is better known as, Mark Twain. Samuel Clemens then moved to California and added another profession to his arsenal, he became a professional miner, although he was not very successful at this and could barely afford to provide for himself. He left the mining town of Carson City, California and headed for San Francisco, where he got a job writing for the San Francisco Call.

ol in 1847 at the age of twelve when his father, John Marshall, died and it became necessary for him to go to work to help the family out financially. Soon after his fathers death young Samuel became apprenticed to a printer named Ament. Ament paid Samuel with clothes and a place to live. He remained with Ament for a few years, until his older brother Orion bought out a small newspaper in Hannibal in 1850 and Samuel went to work on that. All the work for the paper was done in the Clemens’s household and the two brothers ran it, with young Samuel doing the majority of the writing. This paper was by no means a great paper but it was sufficient and every year seemed to make enough money to support the Clemens family. It was working on this paper where Samuel really learned how to write and discovered his talents. However by 1853, before Samuel was even eighteen years of age he wa

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