Mark Twain once said “ Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first”. Which is still a pretty relevant quote in the 21st century. Mark was a very wise man who know all about the ups and downs in life. His life story is very interesting but also very sad. Let me tell you about it. Samuel langhorne Clemens was born on November 30, 1910 in Florida, Missouri. He was the sixth child of John and Jane Clemens. John was a storekeeper, lawyer and a judge. While jane was a housewife. The clemens family wasn’t really a wealthy family. They struggled like any other family in america. They moved to hannibal when Sam was about 4 years old. The town they lived in inspired so many of Twain’s stories. It also caused a lot of his problems. Sam went to school until he was 12 then he worked as a printer as a newspaper place. Sam had to get a job because his father died in 1847. Sam had many jobs after his father died. He was a riverboat pilot, journalist, lecturer, entrepreneur and inventor. In 1861 he moved to nevada and california, which he lived in for 5 years. While he lived in …show more content…
The daughter of a rich New York coal worker. She was 24 and he was 34. Mark loved livy so much, he once told a friend that she is the perfect woman. The couple settled in buffalo and soon had four children. When he married olivia his fame seemed to heighten, but he had many hard personal struggles in life. But while those years were gilded with awards, they also brought him much pain. Early in their marriage, he and Livy had lost their toddler son, Langdon, to diphtheria and in 1896, his favorite daughter, Susy, died at the age of 24 of spinal meningitis. The loss broke his heart, and adding to his grief, he was out of the country when it happened. His youngest daughter, Jean, was diagnosed with severe epilepsy. In 1909, when She was 29 years old, Jean died of a heart