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Early life Samuel Clemens, age 15 Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835, to a Tennessee country merchant, John Marshall Clemens (August 11, 1798?– March 24, 1847), and Jane Lampton Clemens (June 18, 1803?– October 27, 1890).[4] Twain was the sixth of seven children. Only three of his siblings survived childhood: his brother Orion (July 17, 1825?– December 11, 1897); Henry, who died in a riverboat explosion (July 13, 1838?– June 21, 1858); and Pamela (September 19, 1827?– August 31, 1904). His sister Margaret (May 31, 1830?– August 17, 1839) died when Twai