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    Orion Clemens

    American politician

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  1. Orion Clemens (July 17, 1825 – December 11, 1897) was the first and only Secretary of the Nevada Territory. His younger brother Samuel Langhorne Clemens became a famous author under the pen name Mark Twain . Early life. Born in Gainesboro, Tennessee, Orion Clemens was the oldest of seven children.

  2. Feb 6, 2010 · These fragments from Orion Clemens's autobiography provide a handwriting sample for scholars or collectors who may yet locate pages from the lost manuscript that have remained unidentified. The recovery of the lost autobiography would provide a number of missing puzzle pieces in Mark Twain research.

  3. Married, Orion Clemens, to Miss Mary E. Stotts, Dec. l9th 1864. By Rev. J. T. Umsted, Pastor of the Westminster Church. Orion Clemens, lived in Muscatine, Iowa, when we were married. The river being closed we had to take our trip, or rather return to his home from Keokuk, in the stage.

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  5. Apprenticeships of Mark Twain. In 1850 the oldest Clemens boy, Orion, returned from St. Louis, Missouri, and began to publish a weekly newspaper. A year later he bought the Hannibal Journal, and Sam and his younger brother Henry worked for him.

  6. Orion Clemens was the older brother of Mark Twain and a printer, publisher, and politician. He moved to Nevada with his family in 1862 and served as its secretary, but later struggled to make a living as an inventor, lawyer, and author.

  7. Dec 10, 2020 · English. xxi, 268 pages ; 24 cm. "Mark Twain - our nation's greatest writer and a national icon. This provocative account will forever change the way we see him. Philip Ashley Fanning's history of the fractious fraternal relationship between Twain and his older brother, Orion Clemens, reveals that Orion's influence on Twain's life and writing ...

  8. Feb 5, 2003 · Amazon.com: Mark Twain and Orion Clemens: Brothers, Partners, Strangers (Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism): 9780817313104: Fanning, Philip Ashley, Gribben, Alan: Books

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