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OUTLINE OF SAMUEL CLEMENS' LIFE
1835 Born on November 30 at Florida, Missouri.
The cabin in which he was born is now preserved
in the Mark Twain State Park, Stoutsville, Missouri.
1839 Clemens family moved to Hannibal where Samuel's father
was a lawyer and magistrate.
1847 Father, John Marshall Clemens, died.
1848-1854 Worked as printer on various Missouri newspapers.
1853-1857 Worked as printer in St. Louis; New York; Philadelphia;
Muscatine and Keokuk, Iowa; and Cincinnati.
1857-1861 Worked on the Mississippi River as cub pilot and pilot
on steamboats.
1861 Served briefly in Missouri militia. Then went with
older brother Orion to Nevada where Orion was secretary
to the governor of the territory.
1861-1862 Prospected for silver in Nevada.
1862-1864 Virginia City TERRITORIAL ENTERPRISE employed him as
reporter and correspondent.
1864-1866 Worked as reporter and free-lance writer for San
Francisco publications.
1865 "Jim Smiley and his Jumping Frog" published in November
in New York Saturday Press.
1866 From March through August served as correspondent for
the Sacramento UNION in the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii).
1866-1867 Correspondent for San Francisco ALTA CALIFORNIA in
New York.
1867 QUAKER CITY excursion to Europe and Palestine.
1867-1869 Lecturing and writing for newspapers.
1869 Publication of THE INNOCENTS ABROAD. Met William
Dean Howells.
1870 Marriage to Olivia Langdon of Elmira, New York; became
editor of the EXPRESS in Buffalo.
1871 Moved to Hartford, Connecticut; lecture tours continued.
1872 Published ROUGHING IT. English lecture tour.
1873 Published THE GILDED AGE, a novel written in
collaboration with Charles Dudley Warner. Second
English lecture tour.
1875 Published SKETCHES, NEW AND OLD.
1876 THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER published.
1878-1879 Lengthy vist to Germany, Switzerland, and Italy.
1880 A TRAMP ABROAD published.
1881 Makes first investments in Paige typesetting machine,
an indulgence on which he was to spend more than
$100,000 in the next decade.
1882 THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER.
1883 LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI.
1884-1885 Toured America with George Washington Cable, giving
readings from their works. Were billed as the "Twins
of Genius."
Established Charles L. Webster & Co., publishers. This
enterprise, marginally successful at first, cost Clemens
a fortune when it became insolvent in the 1890's.
1885 ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN and Grant's MEMOIRS
published by the Webster Co.
1888 Yale conferred honorary M.A.
1889 A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT.
1891-1895 Resided in Europe (Germany, Italy, France) making
business trips back to the U. S. when necessary.
1894 Disasters: (1) Paige typesetter pronounced a failure,
(2) Webster Co. in bankruptcy. Clemens undertakes to
pay off all of Webster Co. debts.
1894 PUDD'NHEAD WILSON.
1895-1896 Lecture tour through Southern hemisphere.
1896 Suzy, Clemens' favorite daughter, died of meningitis in
August.
1897-1900 Lived in Vienna and London.
1897 FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR.
1900 THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG AND OTHER STORIES.
1900 Lived in New York City.
1901 Yale conferred Litt.D.
1902 University of Missouri conferred LL.D.
1903 Clemens family moves to Italy for Olivia's health.
1904 Olivia died while in Italy.
1907 Visits Annapolis and USNA. LittD. conferred by Oxford.
1908 Moved to Stormfield near Redding, Connecticut.
1909 Daughter Jean died, drowning in bath while having
epileptic seizure.
1910 Clemens died at Stormfield and was buried at Elmira.