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Reverend Joseph Hopkins Twichell (November 30, 1838 – December 20, 1918) was a writer and Congregational minister from Hartford, Connecticut. He was a close friend of writer Mark Twain for over forty years and is believed to be the model for the character "Harris" in A Tramp Abroad.
But the Reverend Joseph Hopkins Twichell of Hartford was indeed Clemens’s intimate friend for most of the author’s life. He provided comradeship, humor, and consolation even when the two men were locked in argument.
Jul 10, 2020 · Inspired by his friendship with Mark Twain, Joseph Twichell took up such causes as labor rights, immigration, education, and interfaith advocacy.
Joseph Twichell was the first pastor of Asylum Hill Congregational Church in Hartford where he stayed for 47 years.
The collection contains correspondence, writings, and personal and professional papers documenting the life and activities of nineteenth and early twentieth century American pastor Joseph Hopkins Twichell.
May 25, 2008 · Courtney's biography of Joseph Hopkins Twichell is both comprehensive and compulsively readable. Herein find the Rev. Twichell, a man in full: New England son, Civil War chaplain, advocate of children, and best friend of America's favorite manchild, mischievous Mark Twain.
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- Steve Courtney
Jul 3, 2018 · 03-C2953. Mark Twain, Joseph Twichell, and Religion. PETER MESSENT. √oseph Hopkins Twichell was the popu-lar and much-beloved pastor of the Asylum Hill Congregationalist Church in Hartford, Connecti-cut, for almost forty-seven years, from December 1865 to July 1912.
