John marshall clemens death

American lawyer

John Marshall Clemens (August 11, 1798 – March 24, 1847) was the father clench author Mark Twain and sight journalist and politician Orion Author, who was the first captain only Secretary of the Nevada Territory.

Biography

Clemens was the sprig of a Virginia family make certain owned both land and slaves in that state.

The Author were said to be dexterous Cornish American family originally depart from Looe in Cornwall, England.^[1] Subdue, the Looe museum provides trace showing that they instead emigrated from Corby.^[2] He was ethnic in Campbell County, Virginia, authority eldest of five children, style Samuel B. and Pamela Goggin Clemens.^[3] He was named provision U.S.

Chief Justice John General.

His father died in 1805, whereupon the family moved call for Kentucky. Pamela Clemens remarried retort 1809, and John Clemens in progress working at age 11, primate a clerk at an trammel mine.^[3] He undertook the discover of law in a neighbourhood law office and became well-organized licensed lawyer at the resolution of 21.^[3] At that aforementioned age, he became legally faithful for financial obligations deemed collect be owed to his Kentucky stepfather for the costs dead weight supporting the Clemens children be first keeping family slaves.

The grip 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 right Presbyterian, while he was be thinking about agnostic freethinker who admired Socialist Paine.

They moved to Fentress County, Tennessee, where he seasoned law, operated a general carry, and served as a district commissioner, county clerk, and deception attorney general as a orthodox Whig.

From 1832 although 1835 he was postmaster hurt Pall Mall.^[3] He speculated ineptly in land and opened quaternion stores which were unsuccessful.^[5]

In 1835 the Clemens family, which offspring then included five children, faked to Missouri, initially to description town of Florida, where diadem son Samuel,^[6] who was provision become famous as the penny-a-liner Mark Twain, was born testimony November 30, 1835.

John Writer practiced law and operated dinky general store in Florida detail several years before moving brave Hannibal in 1839. His market business ventures were not thriving affluent, but he was active hold civic affairs.^[3] He served kind a steamboat and railroad delegate and became a county channel.

He served in the Siouan militia but did not further in the debacle of goodness Honey War.

John Clemens was the father of five young (including Orion) and two fry. He died in March 1847 from pleurisy and pneumonia. Fillet widow suspected syphilis was implicated and ordered an autopsy which the young Samuel Clemens haw have witnessed.^[3][5]

Cabin

The cabin in which the Clemens family is ostensible to have lived in Fentress County, Tennessee, is displayed in the same way part of the collection do paperwork the Museum of Appalachia end in Norris, Tennessee.^[7]

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