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John Marshall Clemens (August 11, 1798 – March 24, 1847) was the father of author Mark Twain and of journalist and politician Orion Clemens, who was the first and only Secretary of the Nevada Territory. Biography. Clemens was the scion of a Virginia family that owned both land and slaves in that state.
Dec 2, 2020 · ID: I0007. Name: John Marshall Clemens Sex: M Birth: 11 AUG 1798 in Campbell Co., VA Death: 24 MAR 1847 in Hannibal, Marion Co., MO Note: As a youth he became a clerk in an iron manufactory, at Lynchhurg, and doubtless studied at night. At all events, he acquired an education, but injured his health in the mean time.
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Short Biography. Born in Virginia, John Marshall Clemens studied law and was licensed to practice in 1822. He married Jane Lampton of Kentucky in 1823. In 1827 the Clemenses relocated to Jamestown, Tennessee, where Clemens opened a store and eventually became a clerk of the county court.
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Judge John Marshall Clemens, father of Mark Twain, was born in Virginia and trained as a lawyer by 1822.He was married to Jane Lampton and they had seven children. John worked as the city clerk in Jamestown, Tennessee after marriage to Jane Lampton in 1823. By 1835, he and the family moved to Florida, Missouri. He ran a dry good store and was a pro...
"John [and his wife] lived in Gainesboro, Jackson County, TN for a time, ....and resided in a house that stood on the vacant lot on the southwest corner of the public square.... Honorable George H. Morgan, who once lived in Gainesboro, ...addressed a note of inquiry to [John's son Samuel (aka Mark Twain) - to ask if Samuel had been born in Gainesbo...
Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 9 September 2019), memorial page for John Marshall Clemens (11 Aug 1798–24 Mar 1847), Find A Grave: Memorial #21749, citing Mount Olivet Cemetery, Hann...- Male
- August 11, 1798
- Jane (Lampton) Clemens
- March 24, 1847
Construction on the railroad (formed during an 1846 meeting at the Hannibal office of John Marshall Clemens, father of Mark Twain) began in 1851 from both cities. Bonds from counties along the route along with the donation of 600,000 acres (2,400 km 2) in land voted by Congress paid for construction.
JOHN MARSHALL CLEMENS - MARK TWAIN’S FATHER b. 11 August 1798, Campbell County, VA; d. 24 March 1847, Hannibal, MO married JANE LAMPTON 6 May 1823, Columbia, KY; PLEASANT CLEMENS b. 1800; d. November 1811; ELIZABETH MOORE CLEMENS b. 1801; still living 1886 married JOHN NICHOLAS POLLARD, 1817; HANNIBAL CLEMENS b. 6 November 1803; d. 1 August 1836
When John Marshall Clemens was born on 11 August 1798, in Lynchburg, Campbell, Virginia, United States, his father, Samuel B Clemons, was 28 and his mother, Pamelia Goggin, was 22. He married Jane Casey Lampton on 6 May 1823, in Columbia, Adair, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters.
