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Feb 13, 2018 · The year 2018 marks the 150th anniversary of one of the great courtships in American history, the wooing of an unenthusiastic 22-year-old Olivia Langdon by a completely smitten 32-year-old Samuel...
Oct 25, 2023 · Olivia Louise Langdon Clemens, middle child of Jervis and Olivia Lewis Langdon, was born 27 November 1845 in Elmira—a progressive, nineteenth-century city in western New York.
Clemens, Olivia Langdon (Livy) (1845–1904) Short Biography. Olivia Langdon, familiarly called “Livy,” was born and raised in Elmira, New York, the daughter of wealthy coal merchant Jervis Langdon and Olivia Lewis Langdon. The Langdons were strongly religious, reformist, and abolitionist.
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.
Olivia Langdon (1845-1904), wife of Sam Clemens, was born to a wealthy, abolitionist family in Elmira, New York. She was considered to be frail in health - "It is likely that Clemens was informed early on by Mr. & Mrs. Langdon about the supreme delicacy of Olivia's health" (Trombley 95).
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.
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Dec 6, 2013 · Mrs. Mark Twain: The Life of Olivia Langdon Clemens, 1845-1904. This is the first book-length biography of Olivia Langdon Clemens, Mark Twain's wife. Livy was an intelligent, well-educated...
