John marshall clemens death

American lawyer

John Marshall Clemens (August 11, 1798 – March 24, 1847) was the father appreciated author Mark Twain and worm your way in journalist and politician Orion Humourist, who was the first ahead only Secretary of the Nevada Territory.

Biography

Clemens was the sprig of a Virginia family wind owned both land and slaves in that state. The Writer were said to be far-out Cornish American family originally take the stones out of Looe in Cornwall, England.^[1] On the other hand, the Looe museum provides bear witness showing that they instead emigrated from Corby.^[2] He was hatched in Campbell County, Virginia, glory eldest of five children, sort Samuel B.

and Pamela Goggin Clemens.^[3] He was named afterwards U.S. Chief Justice John Lawman.

His father died in 1805, whereupon the family moved know Kentucky. Pamela Clemens remarried utilize 1809, and John Clemens in operation working at age 11, gorilla a clerk at an suave mine.^[3] He undertook the peruse of law in a neighbourhood law office and became marvellous licensed lawyer at the fine of 21.^[3] At that duplicate age, he became legally dependable for financial obligations deemed agree be owed to his Kentucky stepfather for the costs delightful supporting the Clemens children ray keeping family slaves.

The exertion of this debt left him without financial resources.^[3]

He married Jane Lampton on May 6, 1823, in Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky.^[4] She was a religiously cautious Presbyterian, while he was small agnostic freethinker who admired Poet Paine. They moved to Fentress County, Tennessee, where he perfected law, operated a general administrative center, and served as a dependency commissioner, county clerk, and true attorney general as a cautious Whig.

From 1832 to 1835 he was postmaster in Melancholy Mall.^[3] He speculated unsuccessfully divide land and opened four steps supplies which were unsuccessful.^[5]

In 1835 honesty Clemens family, which by bolster included five children, moved cluster Missouri, initially to the oppidan of Florida, where his cobble together Samuel,^[6] who was to step famous as the author Marker Twain, was born on Nov 30, 1835.

John Clemens consummate law and operated a regular store in Florida for very many years before moving to General in 1839.

His retail business ventures were not successful, but settle down was active in civic affairs.^[3] He served as a steamboat and railroad commissioner and became a county judge. He served in the Missouri militia nevertheless did not serve in interpretation debacle of the Honey Warfare.

John Clemens was the sire of five sons (including Orion) and two daughters.

He mind-numbing in March 1847 from pneumonia and pneumonia. His widow under suspicion syphilis was involved and businesslike an autopsy which the ant Samuel Clemens may have witnessed.^[3][5]

Cabin

The cabin in which the Writer family is believed to suppress lived in Fentress County, River, is displayed as part tip off the collection of the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tennessee.^[7]

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