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Clemens (SAMUEL LANGHORNE best known)

SAMUEL LANGHORNE (best known by his pen name of MARK TWAIN), an American humorist; born in Florida, Mo., Nov. 30, 1835. He worked for some time as a compositor in Philadelphia and New York, and then in 1851 learned the business of pilot on the Mis- CLEMENS sissippi. Thence he went to the Nevada ful whether he was born at Alexandria mines; became in 1862 local editor of a newspaper in Virginia City; went to San Francisco; was for some time a reporter; ing firm of C. L. Webster & Co., which failed some years later, though it had published successful works, including General Grant's "Personal Recollections,' on which over $300,000 in royalties were S. L. CLEMENS (MARK TWAIN) paid. After the failure Mr. Clemens made a lecturing tour of the world for the purpose of paying the firm's indebtedpaid. After the failure Mr. Clemens though the creditors offered to settle for half of the amount. His works include: the purpose of paying the firm's indebtedness, which he insisted on doing in full, though the creditors offered to settle for Abroad," "The Prince and the Pauper," "Life on the Mississippi," "The Gilded Age" (with Charles Dudley Warner), "Old Times on the Mississippi," "Tom Saw- "Life on the Mississippi," "The Gilded cut Yankee at King Arthur's Court," Times on the Mississippi," "Tom Sawlections of Joan of Arc," "Following the Equator," etc. He died April 21, 1910.