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John Marshall Clemens (August 11, 1798 – March 24, 1847) was the father of author Mark Twain and of journalist and politician Orion Clemens, who was the first and only Secretary of the Nevada Territory. Biography. Clemens was the scion of a Virginia family that owned both land and slaves in that state.
2 de dez. de 2020 · John Marshall Clemens was born in Campbell County, Virginia. He was a lawyer and later a justice of the peace in Hannibal. Because it was difficult on the frontier to make a living as a lawyer, John Clemens also ran a dry goods store and invested in property.
JOHN MARSHALL CLEMENS - MARK TWAIN’S FATHER b. 11 August 1798, Campbell County, VA; d. 24 March 1847, Hannibal, MO married JANE LAMPTON 6 May 1823, Columbia, KY; PLEASANT CLEMENS b. 1800; d. November 1811; ELIZABETH MOORE CLEMENS b. 1801; still living 1886 married JOHN NICHOLAS POLLARD, 1817; HANNIBAL CLEMENS b. 6 November 1803; d. 1 August 1836
While his own father, John Marshall Clemens, had been serving on a jury that sent “slave-stealers” to the state penitentiary, his father-in-law, Jervis Langdon, had been funding “slave-stealers’” activities.
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Judge John Marshall Clemens, father of Mark Twain, was born in Virginia and trained as a lawyer by 1822.He was married to Jane Lampton and they had seven children. John worked as the city clerk in Jamestown, Tennessee after marriage to Jane Lampton in 1823. By 1835, he and the family moved to Florida, Missouri. He ran a dry good store and was a pro...
"John [and his wife] lived in Gainesboro, Jackson County, TN for a time, ....and resided in a house that stood on the vacant lot on the southwest corner of the public square.... Honorable George H. Morgan, who once lived in Gainesboro, ...addressed a note of inquiry to [John's son Samuel (aka Mark Twain) - to ask if Samuel had been born in Gainesbo...
Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 9 September 2019), memorial page for John Marshall Clemens (11 Aug 1798–24 Mar 1847), Find A Grave: Memorial #21749, citing Mount Olivet Cemetery, Hann...- Male
- August 11, 1798
- Jane (Lampton) Clemens
- March 24, 1847
6 de mai. de 2024 · Now back on the frontier, even farther west, John Marshall Clemens bestowed the ambiguous names Samuel Langhorne on a child he expected to die. The names would bury John's own failure in...
Clemens, John Marshall (1798–1847) Born in Virginia, John Marshall Clemens studied law and was licensed to practice...
