Comm 1 Assignment

1. Mark Twain, whose real name is Samuel L. Clemens and lived in Hartford, is the author of Huckleberry Finn- a classic American novel.

2. Mark Twain's elaborate and elegant house was located on Farmington Avenue in an area called Nook Farm and was a neighbor of Harriet Beecher Stowe who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.

3. Mark Twain's home has windows and a balcony that overlook a large side porch which reminded people today of a steamboat since he used to pilot steamboats when he was young. 

4. Mark Twain was one of the first three people in Hartford to own a telephone, which was first used commercially in New Haven, but since there was practically no one to talk to, he never liked the newfangled gadget.

5. Mark Twain loved industrial inventions and one of these was the elaborate Paige typesetter but he lost a fortune investing in them since it was developed at the same time as the Linotype- a much simpler and cheaper machine.

6. The death of Mark Twain's daughter, Susy, because of spinal meningitis made him leave the house at Harford for he never felt the same about it again and returned only once during the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner.