Assignment

1.
Mark Twain whose real name was Samuel L. Clemens who lived in Hartford for several years is the author of the classic American novel Huckleberry Finn.
2.
Mark Twain lived in a very elaborate and elegant house in an area called Nook Farm on Farmington Avenue with his neighbor of Harriet Beecher Stowe who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
3.
Today, people say the windows and balcony overlooking a large side porch in Mark Twain's home remind them of the steamboat Twain used to pilot during his youth on the Mississippi.
4.
Mark Twain was one of the first three people in Hartford to own a telephone which was first used commercially in nearby New Haven but he never really liked this newfangled gadget because there was practically no one to talk to.
5.
Twain unfortunately lost a fortune investing in industrial inventions such as the elaborate Paige typesetter which he loved because it was developed at the same time as the Linotype which was much simpler and less expensive machine.
6.
Mark Twain left his house and Hartford when his beloved daughter, Susy, died  of spinal meningitis in there and when he once returned at his house for Charles Dudley Warner's, his friend, funeral, he never felt the same about the house again.