Samuel Clemens
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| Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain | |
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| Historical Figure | |
| Timeline: | OTL |
| Nationality: | United States |
| Religion: | Deist |
| Date of Birth: | 1835 |
| Date of Death: | 1910 |
| Cause of Death: | Heart Attack |
| Occupation: | Author, Lecturer |
| Spouse: | Olivia Langdon Clemens |
| Children: | Langdon (son)
Susy (daughter) Clara (daughter) Jean (daughter) |
| Timeline: | Southern Victory |
| Appearance(s): | How Few Remain |
| Cause of Death: | Natural Causes |
| Spouse: | Alexandra Clemens |
| Children: | Ophelia Clemens (daughter)
Orion Clemens (son) |
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He is extensively quoted.
Samuel Clemens in Southern Victory
Samuel Clemens was a newspaper editor in San Francisco, California. He published his own periodical, The San Francisco Morning Call.
Clemens was a Missouri native. Although Missouri was a slave state and considered by many to be part of the South, it declined to join the Confederate States and remained loyal to the United States. When the war began, Clemens and his friends formed a Confederate militia, but he saw no military action and the militia disbanded after two weeks. (During the Second Mexican War, which Clemens scathingly criticized, this experience would cast doubt on Clemens' loyalty). His friends joined the Confederate Army; Clemens headed west.
Clemens eventually migrated to San Francisco, where he became editor-in-chief of his own newspaper. He married, and had two children. Clemens opposed the Second Mexican War from start to finish. He was critical of President James G. Blaine and San Francisco Mayor Adolph Sutro.
Being a full-time newspaper editor, Clemens had little time, energy or inclination to write anything but editorials, and hardly anything which he wrote was read in later times, except by historians researching his period.
Clemens and his wife had two children, Ophelia (who later became a journalist herself) and Orion. Clemens died "shortly before the Great War".
