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Mark Twain: Quarry Farm: 1870–1900 Elmira: Twain's family visited his wife's family home every summer for 30 years. Three of his daughters were born here. Today, it is used as a retreat for Mark Twain scholars. [64] Walt Whitman: Walt Whitman Birthplace: 1819–1824 West Hills
The Clemenses lived in Buffalo, New York, from 1869 to 1871. Twain owned a stake in the Buffalo Express newspaper and worked as an editor and writer. [53] [50] While they were living in Buffalo, their son Langdon died of diphtheria in 1872 at the age of 19 months. They had three daughters: Susy (1872–1896), Clara (1874–1962), [54] and Jean ...
Mark Twain in 1867. The use of the pen name of Mark Twain first occurred in Samuel Clemens's writing while in the Nevada Territory which he had journeyed to with his brother. [1] [2] Clemens/Twain lived in Nevada from 1861 to 1864, and visited the area twice after leaving. Historians such as Peter Messent see Clemens's time in Nevada as "the ...
The writer and humorist Samuel Clemens, then a reporter on the local Territorial Enterprise newspaper first used the pen name Mark Twain in Virginia City in February 1863 [29] [30] Clemens lived in Virginia City and wrote for the Enterprise from fall 1862 until May 1864. His departure was to avoid a duel with a local newspaper editor upset over ...
A table d'hôte menu from the dinner for Walter Damrosch at the Lotos Club, 1893. The Lotos Club is a private social club in New York City.Founded primarily by a young group of writers and critics in 1870 as a gentlemen's club, it has since begun accepting women as members.
Twain met biographer Albert Bigelow Paine in 1906 while living in New York City. He decided to purchase 195 acres of land in Redding where Paine lived, [ 1 ] purchasing his first parcel there March 24, 1906, and buying additional acreage in May and September that year.
Mark Twain's editor's desk preserved at the Mark Twain Territorial Enterprise Museum, Virginia City, Nevada. Having stumped for Abraham Lincoln's presidential bid in 1860, Orion Clemens was appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory in March 1861. Although the position carried a significant salary, it did not include any funds to relocate to ...
Its most famous burials are Mark Twain and his wife Olivia Langdon Clemens. Many members of the United States Congress, including Jacob Sloat Fassett are also interred there. Within Woodlawn Cemetery is the distinct Woodlawn National Cemetery , begun with the interment of Confederate prisoners from the nearby Elmira Prison (dubbed "Hellmira" by ...