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Jane Lampton "Jean" Clemens (July 26, 1880 – December 24, 1909) was the daughter of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (better known by his pen name Mark Twain) and Olivia Langdon Clemens. She founded or worked with a number of societies for the protection of animals.
Jane Lampton Clemens, born July 26, 1880, was always called “Jean” by her family and friends. She was the youngest child of Sam and Olivia Clemens. Later in 1880, Clemens wrote to his sister: “Jean is as fat as a watermelon, & just as sweet, & good, & often just as wet.”
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In late October 1906 when Jean Clemens was twenty-six years old, she recorded how emotionally devastating it was for her to leave her sister and father to move away and live in a Katonah, New York epileptic colony: [ 1] It was desperately hard to leave Father and Clara in order to come out to a totally strange place.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature."
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Short Biography. SLC’s youngest daughter was named after his mother, Jane Lampton Clemens, but was always called Jean. Like her sisters, Jean was educated largely at home. In 1896, however, she was attending school in Elmira, New York, when she suffered a severe epileptic seizure.
Jane Lampton "Jean" Clemens (July 26, 1880 – December 24, 1909) was the daughter of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (better known by his pen name Mark Twain) and Olivia Langdon Clemens. She drowned in a bathtub at Samuel's home on Christmas Eve 1909, likely due to a seizure.
