Orion Clemens

American publisher

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relationship to Mark Twain

  • Mark Twain
    In Mark Twain: Apprenticeships of Mark Twain

    …1850 the oldest Clemens boy, Orion, returned from St. Louis, Missouri, and began to publish a weekly newspaper. A year later he bought the Hannibal Journal, and Sam and his younger brother Henry worked for him. Sam became more than competent as a typesetter, but he also occasionally contributed sketches…

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