Clemens, Jeremiah
soldier, United States senator, author, was born Dec. 28, 1814, in Huntsville, Ala. In 1830-41 he was elected a member of the state legislature; in 1842 raised a company of volunteer troops and went to Texas, having been appointed lieutenant-colonel, and was subsequently appointed to the same office in the regular army. In 1843 and 1844 he was again elected to the legislature; in 1844 was a presidential elector, and in 1848 was appointed governor of the civil and military department of purchase in Mexico, which position he held until the close of the war. He was a senator in congress from Alabama from 1849 to 1853.
He was the author of Bernard Lile; Mustang Gray; The Rivals; and Tobias Wilson. He died May 21, 1865, in Huntsville, Ala.
CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE, author, was born Nov. 30, 1835, in Florida, Mo. He is a celebrated humorist, who, after an eventful experience as a journalist, rose to fame by the publication of The Innocents Abroad, a volume of extravagantly humorous travels, which still remains his most popular book. Only a very small portion of his writing has any place as literature, but as an author he is one of the most popular and successful of his time. Other works of his are: A Tramp Abroad; Roughing It; Tom Sawyer; The Gilded Age (with C. D. Warner); The Jumping Frog; Life on the Mississippi; Huckleberry Finn; Merry Tales; A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court; Tom Sawyer Abroad; Pudd'nhead Wilson; The American Claimant. The Prince and the Pauper; and Joan of Arc, are works in a serious vein, the first being his most finished production.