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John Marshall Clemens named his son Samuel Langhorne; his wife felt so hopeless about the child's survival that she relinquished her usual claim to name him. "Samuel" came from John's father, who ...
JOHN MARSHALL CLEMENS - (Mark Twain's father) Silent, austere, of perfect probity and high principle; ungentle of manner toward his children, but always a gentleman in his phrasing -- and never punished them -- a look was enough, and more than enough. - "Villagers of 1840-3"
John Marshall Clemens inherited three slaves after the death of his father. Upon his marriage to Jane Lampton on May 6, 1923, he came into possession of three more slaves. The growing Clemens family thus started out with six slaves, but as John Marshall's business ventures successively failed, he sold these slaves to keep the family financially ...
by Gregg Camfield, PhD, University of California-Merced. On November 30, 1835, nearly thirty years before he took the pen name Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, a hamlet some 130 miles north-northwest of St. Louis, and 30 miles inland from the Mississippi River. His father, John Marshall Clemens, had earlier ...
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri. He was the sixth of seven children of Jane (née Lampton; 1803–1890), a native of Kentucky, and John Marshall Clemens (1798–1847), a native of Virginia. [citation needed]
Clemens, Jane Lampton (1803–1890) Short Biography. SLC’s mother was born in Adair County, Kentucky. In 1823 she married John Marshall Clemens, in part to spite a former suitor. The couple had seven children, of whom only four (Orion, Pamela, Samuel, and Henry) survived at the time of John Marshall Clemens’s death in 1847. The widowed Jane ...
John Marshall Clemens (m. 1823) Children. 7, including Orion and Samuel. Jane Lampton Clemens (June 18, 1803 – October 27, 1890) was the mother of author Mark Twain. [1] She was the inspiration of the character "Aunt Polly" in Twain's 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. [2] [3] [4] She was regarded as a "cheerful, affectionate, and ...
