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In 1835, Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born to John Marshall Clemens and Jane Lampton in the small town of Florida, Missouri. The Clemens¹ family wasn¹t at all rich, but four years after Samuel was born, they moved to the even smaller Missouri town of Hannibal, ....

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.... when he was 12. It was then that Clemens decided to leave his small river town and his ailing scholastic career, and head of by himself. Clemens soon become a printer's apprentice. Interesting enough, it was working around the printing press that helped push Clemens into publishing his first works. His earliest writings were skits for his brother Orion's Hannibal newspaper. A sketch, "The Dandy Frightening the Squatter," published in The Carpet Bag (Boston) in 1852, was his first published story of life on the Mississippi River, (Wister xx). Between 1853 and 1857 Clemens worked as a journeyman printer in St. Louis, New York, Philadelphia, Musc ....