Samuel Clemens

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This file appears in: Jane Lampton House
Samuel Clemens

This photograph shows Samuel Clemens as a young man. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

This file appears in: Jane Lampton House

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #128 in Columbia notes the location of the girlhood home of Jane Lampton Clemens, the mother of Samuel Clemens, popularly known as the writer Mark Twain. Jane Lampton was born in Adair County in 1803 to Benjamin and Margaret…