1. Mark Twain whose real name is Samuel L. Clemens lived in Hartford for several years and wrote the classic american novel---Huckleberry Finn.
2. Mark Twain lives in a very elegant and elaborate house in an area on Farmington Avenue called the Nook Farm and is a neighbor of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author Uncle Tom's Cabin.
3. Today, people say that the window and balcony overlooking the large side porch in Mark Twain's home, reminded them of the steamboats Twain piloted in Mississippi when he was young.
4. Mark Twain was one of the first three people in Hartford to own a telephone which was first used commercially in nearby New Haven but he never really liked the new fangled gadget because there was practically no one to talk to.
5. Though he lost a fortune investing in them, he loved industrial inventions like the elaborate Paige Typesetter which for him was developed together with the Linotype, a much simpler and less expensive machine.
6. When Mark Twain's daughter, Susy, died of spinal meningitis, he left the house and Hartford because he never felt the same about it again and returned only for the funeral of his friend Charles Dudley Warner.
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