comm1 assignment

1.
Mark Twain or Samuel L. Clemens in real life lived in Hartford for several years and wrote the classic american novel, Huckleberry Finn.

2.
Mark Twain was a neighbor of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, which had an elaborate and elegant house in an area called nook farm on Farmington Avenue.

3.
Mark Twain's  home had a large side porch overlooked by windows and a balcony, which remind the people of today of a steamboat because in Twain's youth, he piloted steamboats on the Mississippi.

4.
Mark Twain was one of the first three people in  Hartford to own a telephone, which was used commercially nearby new haven, but he never really liked this newfangled gadget because there was practically no one to talk to.

5.
Mark Twain loved industrial inventions, one of  these was the elaborate Paige typesetter and lost a fortune investing in them, unfortunately, this machine was developed at the same time with the much simpler and less expensive Linotype.

6.
Mark Twain never felt the same about his house in Hartford because his beloved daughter, Susy died there of spinal meningitis. He soon left the house and returned only once, for the funeral of his friend Charles Dudley Warner.