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Samuel Clemens founded Charles L. Webster and Company in 1884. The firm closed in 1894 after Clemens declared bankruptcy. Photo: Sarony 1895 Charles L. Webster and Company was an American subscription publishing firm founded in New York in 1884 by author and journalist Samuel Clemens, popularly known as Mark Twain. [1]
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [2] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature."
It was also a difficult time for Twain personally, as he was forced into bankruptcy and devastated by the death of his favorite daughter, Suzy. Yet the title story still brims with confidence and optimism, marking the moment of hope just before Twain turned to the grim stories of his later years.
The bankruptcy was caused by legal costs of a libel lawsuit against the critic John Ruskin. Whistler won the case, but the damages awarded were insufficient to cover the costs. [24] Samuel Clemens (known as Mark Twain) American author Assignment for Benefit of Creditors [25] [26] 1894 [27] He owed over $100,000. [28]
In October 1996, Mercantile announced the pending acquisition of the St. Louis-based Mark Twain Bancshares Inc. with its Mark Twain Bank subsidiary for $855 million in stock. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] At the time of the announcement, Mercantile had 440 branches in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa and Arkansas while Mark Twain had 39 branches in St. Louis and ...
Mark Twain and Henry Huttleston Rogers in 1908. In 1893, a mutual friend introduced Rogers to humorist Mark Twain. Rogers reorganized Twain's tangled finances, and the two became close friends for the rest of Rogers' life. By the 1890s, Twain's fortunes began to decline; in his later life, Twain suffered from depression.
The budget airline filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November, facing over $1 billion in looming debt payments and accumulating more than $2.5 billion in losses since 2020.
Under the legal rules that then applied to criminal cases, the Claimant, though present in court, was not allowed to testify. [96] Away from the court he revelled in his celebrity status; the American writer Mark Twain, who was then in London, attended an event at which the Claimant was present and "thought him a rather fine and stately figure ...