Show MARK irk TWAIN CALLE NOTED AUTHOR AND humorist PASSES AWAY AFTER UN LIN GERING ILLNESS man beloved by all the people who had delighted millions with his quaint humor is worn out by grief and agony redding conn samuel lang borne demons clemens mark twain died painlessly at thurs thursday day night might of angina pectorals ls ile he lapsed into coma at 3 thursday afternoon and never recovered consciousness ness it was the end of a man outworn by grief t and aritte agony of body at the deathbed were mrs gaballo cabrilo clara clemens Clein ens her husband dr robert halsey alsey II dr quintard albert hagelow low paine who will write k mark kwains twains biography and the two trained nurses mark twain was born samuel Lang horna borne clemens CI emens in florida mo ato november 30 1835 my parents he writes in his own burlesque autobiography were neither very poor 4 yz MARK TWAIN nor conspicuously honest the ear blest ancestor of the kwains twains have any record ot of was a friend of the family by the name of fliggins the county chronicles have it that the elder clemens failed in business and died leaving his son oon the ample world to make hla his for fortune in accordingly T mark alark twains kwains acquaintance with literature began in putting words into type not ideas into words educated only in public schools ho he was apprenticed to a printer at 13 and worked at his trade in st louis philadelphia and new law york until at 10 16 he could gratify a boyish ambition to become a cub to a mississippi river pilot both these happenings reacted pro in his later ilia ills knowl edge of river lite lile acquired when he ha was a pilot took form in tom sawyer huckleberry finn and life on oll the mississippi regarded abroad as his first title to fame it even suggested ills hla pseudonym fur for mark twain Is a leads mans cry to tile the pilot in fit shallow stages and ills his familiarity with printing turned him naturally first into news paper work then into creative writing and finally into the publishing business wherein like sir walter scott lie he suffered a bankruptcy dl disastrous to everything but his honor and like sir walter again paid ila id oft off by his pen debts not of his own making mark alark twain has been as described in its his own OMI words a silver miner in nevada a gold miner in california next a reporter in III san francisco next t a special correspondent in the nex sandwich islands ne next at a roving c correspondent or in europe and the eist east e next an instructional torchbearer on the lecture platform and finally I 1 became a tc ut of bools books and an all immovable fixture among tile the other rocks of new kugland england lie ile was married mariak in 1872 to olivia L langden of Er eraima aira N Y fou fall children were born of whom two a son and a daughter died early one other daughter jean who had been an invalid for life was found dead in her bath tub last fall in her home borne at red lied ding conn iler her tinga death greatly saddened her father who declined in balth from that moment A third daughter clara Is mrs ossip balbi galbi wife of the tha pianist plan whom she married last year mark twains kwains first book was the jumping frog ills best known in this country possibly was vas innocents abroad ills his surest title to fame generally Is believed to be tom saw yer cr and its companion volume the adventures Lil ventures of huckleberry finn in all a 11 ills bools books had a sale of more than oples copies and were translated into six languages |