♥ ASSIGNMENT ♥

1. Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel L. Clemens and lived in Hartford for several years, was the author of the classic American novel, Huckleberry Finn.

2. Mark Twain’s house which was very elaborate and elegant was on Farmington Avenue in Nook Farm and his neighbor was Harriet Beecher Stowe, the writer of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

3. Mark Twain’s home had windows and a balcony that overlooks the porch and people say that the window and the balcony reminded them of a steamboat by which during Twain’s younger years, he piloted on the Mississippi.

4. The telephone was first used commercially in nearby New Haven and Mark Twain was one of the first three people in Hartford to own it but he never really liked it because there was practically no one to talk to.

5. Mark Twain loved industrial inventions and one of these was the Paige typesetter but this machine was developed at the same time as the Linotype machine which was much simpler and less expensive so he lost a fortune on investing them.




6. Twain never felt the same about his house since his beloved daughter, Susy, died because of spinal meningitis and soon he left his house and Hartford but returned once for the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner.