1. Mark Twain, whose real name is Samuel L. Clemens and who lived in Hartford for several years, is the author of Huckleberry Finn which is a classic American novel.
2. Mark Twain lived in a very elaborate and elegant house in Farmington Avenue in Nook Farm and he was a neighbor of Harriet Beecher Stowe who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
3. Today, people say that the windows and the balcony overlooking the large side porch in Mark Twain's house remind them of a steamboat which is just logical because Mark Twain used to pilot steamboats in Mississippi in his youth.
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 hated this newfangled gadget because he has no one to talk to.
5. Mark Twain loved industrial inventions and one of these inventions was the elaborate Paige typesetter but unfortunately for Twain, this machine was developed at the same time as the Linotype which was much simpler and less expensive and so, he lost all his fortune in investing in them.
6. When Mark Twain's beloved daughter, Susy, died of meningitis in the Hartford home, Mark Twain never felt the same about the house and so, he left his house and Hartford and only came back once for the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner
