Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
Life & Masonic Timeline
Nov 30, 1835
Age 0
Born
Nov 30, 1835
Age 0
Born in Florida, Missouri
Jan 1, 1839
Age 3
Family moved to Hannibal, Missouri (inspiring Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn settings)
Mar 24, 1847
Age 11
Father died; apprenticed as printer to Joseph Ament
Jan 1, 1851
Age 15
Began working as typesetter and contributor to brother Orion's Hannibal Journal
Jan 1, 1857
Age 21
Became Mississippi River steamboat pilot apprentice
Jan 1, 1859
Age 23
Received pilot's license
May 22, 1861
Age 25
Initiated an Entered Apprentice
Jun 12, 1861
Age 25
Passed to the Degree of Fellowcraft
Jul 10, 1861
Age 25
Raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason
Jul 26, 1861
Age 25
Traveled to Nevada Territory with brother Orion; began writing for Territorial Enterprise (first use of 'Mark Twain' pseudonym)
Nov 18, 1865
Age 29
Published 'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County' (national breakthrough)
Apr 24, 1867
Age 31
Reinstated to Polar Star Lodge No. 79
Jun 8, 1867
Age 31
Traveled to Europe and Holy Land (basis for The Innocents Abroad); gifted cedar gavel to lodge
Feb 2, 1870
Age 34
Married Olivia Langdon
Feb 1, 1872
Age 36
Published Roughing It
Jun 1, 1876
Age 40
Published The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Feb 1, 1885
Age 49
Published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Dec 10, 1889
Age 54
Published A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Apr 18, 1894
Age 58
Bankruptcy and global lecture tour to pay debts
Aug 18, 1896
Age 60
Daughter Susy died (major family tragedy)
Apr 21, 1910
Age 74
Died
Apr 21, 1910
Age 74
Died in Redding, Connecticut (one day after Halley's Comet's closest approach, as he predicted)