![]() ![]() The father, John Marshall Clemens–a lawyer by profession, a merchant by vocation–had brought his household to Florida from Jamestown, Tennessee, somewhat after the manner of judge Hawkins as pictured in The Gilded Age. The family was a good one, of old Virginia and Kentucky stock, but its circumstances were reduced, its environment meager and disheartening. The beginnings of that life were sufficiently unpromising. During the later years of his life he ranked not only as America’s chief man of letters, but likewise as her best known and best loved citizen. He was one of the foremost American philosophers of his day he was the world’s most famous humorist of any day. ![]() ![]() SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS, for nearly half a century known and celebrated as “Mark Twain,” was born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835. ![]()
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