Where can I find the memoirs or and autobiography of Samuel Clemmons?
Samuel Clemens Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835, one of six children. When Samuel was four, his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri a little town on the west bank of the Mississippi River. His father, John Marshall Clemens, was a freethinker, a persuasion not at all uncommon in the Midwest of that period. He is also said to have been stern and puritanical, and was not Samuel’s favorite parent. One of Samuel’s biographers, Edward Wagenknecht, declares that his temperament was inherited from his mother, Jane Lampton Clemens, who was conventionally religious, but not fanatically so: From her Mark Twain inherited many specific tastes and tendencies — his love of red, his tenderness toward all animals, especially cats, his quick, impulsive emotions, his lifelong habit of protecting the outcast and unfortunate. no stray animal was ever turned away from Jane Clemens’ door. At one time she was feeding nineteen cats. She kept no birds, for she could no
