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Langdon Clemens. Langdon Clemens was the first-born child – and the only son – born to Sam and Olivia Clemens. He was born prematurely on Nov. 7‚ 1870‚ and continued to be weak and sickly throughout his short life. He died of diphtheria on June 2‚ 1872‚ at the age of only 19 months.
Olivia Langdon Clemens, c.1872 ( Image Courtesy of the Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, CT.) Samuel Clemens (a.k.a Mark Twain) and Olivia (“Livy”) Langdon were married on February 2, 1870, in the Langdon family parlor in Elmira, New York.
Feb 13, 2018 · February 13, 2018. The wife and daughters of Mark Twain Albert Bigelow Paine. The year 2018 marks the 150th anniversary of one of the great courtships in American history, the wooing of an...
Olivia “Livy” Langdon Clemens (1845-1904) was the wife of Samuel Clemens. Livy grew up in an affluent, pious, and abolitionist household. Though physically frail, her upbringing afforded her much mental stimulation from many of the leading intellectuals, abolitionists, and feminists that her parents hosted.
Olivia Langdon Clemens (November 27, 1845 – June 5, 1904) was the wife of the American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known under his pen name Mark Twain.
“I think I have about decided what we shall do about building,” Olivia Langdon Clemens wrote to her husband, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, in December 1871. He was on a multi-state lecture tour, two months after the couple had moved to Hartford, Connecticut, with their infant son.
both Langdon daughters, Susan and Olivia, studied there. Before their marriage, as early as their first meeting in Elmira, Olivia knew that Twain intended to propose. From that point on, Olivia composed the movements of Twain's suit Olivia made Twain prove his sincerity by writing one hundred and eighty-four courtship letters.
