Young Samuel Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835 When Samuel was four his family moved from the town of Florida Missouri to the Mississippi River port of Hannibal Missouri Samuel didn’t like school He often played hooky Instead of sitting in class Sam ran around in the woods with his friends or explored the river Mark Twain’s boyhood home in Hannibal Missouri 5
Sam the Writer When Sam was about 13 he became an apprentice in a print shop He learned how to print newspapers In 1851 Sam went to work for his brother Orion as a typesetter for a Hannibal newspaper Sam also wrote articles poetry and made humorous sketches Sam signed his work with fake names like Josh or Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass 6 Samuel Clemens worked in a print shop much like this
