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John Marshall Clemens (August 11, 1798 – March 24, 1847) was the father of author Mark Twain and of journalist and politician Orion Clemens, who was the first and only Secretary of the Nevada Territory.
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- August 11, 1798
- Hannibal, Marion, Missouri, United States
- Campbell County, Virginia, United States
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Judge John Marshall Clemens, father of Mark Twain, was born in Virginia and trained as a lawyer by 1822.He was married to Jane Lampton and they had seven children. John worked as the city clerk in Jamestown, Tennessee after marriage to Jane Lampton in 1823. By 1835, he and the family moved to Florida, Missouri. He ran a dry good store and was a pro...
"John [and his wife] lived in Gainesboro, Jackson County, TN for a time, ....and resided in a house that stood on the vacant lot on the southwest corner of the public square.... Honorable George H. Morgan, who once lived in Gainesboro, ...addressed a note of inquiry to [John's son Samuel (aka Mark Twain) - to ask if Samuel had been born in Gainesbo...
Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 9 September 2019), memorial page for John Marshall Clemens (11 Aug 1798–24 Mar 1847), Find A Grave: Memorial #21749, citing Mount Olivet Cemetery, Hann...- Male
- August 11, 1798
- Jane (Lampton) Clemens
- March 24, 1847
While his own father, John Marshall Clemens, had been serving on a jury that sent “slave-stealers” to the state penitentiary, his father-in-law, Jervis Langdon, had been funding “slave-stealers’” activities.
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- As a baby, he wasn’t expected to live. Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born two months prematurely on November 30, 1835, in tiny Florida, Missouri, and remained sickly and frail until he was 7 years old.
- Twain’s formal education was limited. Twain at age 15. In 1848, the year after his father’s death, Clemens went to work full-time as an apprentice printer at a newspaper in Hannibal.
- His career as a riverboat pilot was marred by tragedy. In 1857, Clemens became an apprentice steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River. The following year, while employed on a boat called the Pennsylvania, he got his younger brother, Henry, a job aboard the vessel.
- Twain briefly served with a Confederate militia. Twain in 1870. In June 1861, shortly after the Civil War began, 25-year-old Clemens joined the Marion Rangers, a pro-Confederate militia.
John Marshall Clemens, father of Mark Twain, came originally from Virginia. When he was twentyfive John Clemens married Jane Lampton, who was in a hurry to get away from her stepmother.
JOHN MARSHALL CLEMENS - (Mark Twain's father) Silent, austere, of perfect probity and high principle; ungentle of manner toward his children, but always a gentleman in his phrasing -- and never punished them -- a look was enough, and more than enough.
