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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain was the sixth child of Jane Lampton and John Marshall Clemens. Mark was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. Four years later, his father moved the family to Hannibal where Mark grew up. While he was growing up, writing wasn?t what he dreamed of doing, he of being a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River. When Mark was 16 years old, he worked for his older brother, Orion. When he left Hannibal, he worked as a printer for New York and Philadelphia. When he was 21, he met a steamboat pilot named, Horace Bixby. Mark asked Bixby to teach him everything about being a steamboat pilot. Bixby refused to do it, then after Twain kept on harassing him, Bixby took the offer from Twain and made him pay $500.
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