November 30 Wednesday – Baby Sam’s first  birthday.
 

November  30 Monday – Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) was born two months  premature in the hamlet of Florida, Missouri to John Marshall Clemens (1798-1847) and Jane Lampton Clemens (1803-1890). The baby was named Samuel, for  John’s father; Langhorne, for the friend of John  Marshall’s who had helped him in his youth in Virginia.

November 3 Wednesday – Sam lectured in Johnstown,  Pennsylvania [MTL 3: 385].

Note: It is possible that Sam did  not speak in Brookville or Johnstown – more newspaper evidence  might confirm. Letters Sam wrote Livy between Nov. 6 and 9 (Livy’s numbers 129-132) are  lost [MTL 3:  391n4].
 

January 1 Sunday – Schwartz Bros. (soon to be F.A.O. Schwartz), New York, billed Sam $3.50 for doll parts: “1 head, 1 wig, repackage doll.” Note: stamped on invoice: “bills rendered Jan. May and Oct.”; Park & Tilford, fancy groceries, New York billed Sam $36.88 for two kinds of jelly, “2 doz Glen Whiskey”, paid Jan. 11 [MTP].

November 30 Tuesday – Sam’s sixth birthday.
 

October  13 Wednesday – The Clemenses were forced to transfer the title  of their home property to James Kerr, a St. Louis dry-goods  merchant to whom they were most indebted [Wecter  70]. Note: The indebtedness may have  stemmed from funds John Marshall borrowed to buy the Tennessee Land,  incurred before the family moved to Hannibal.
 

September   – John Marshall Clemens sat on a jury at Palmyra which condemned and sent to the penitentiary  three abolitionists for a term of twelve years [Dempsey  42; Wecter 72]. Note:  See Dempsey, chapters 5 & 6, for a full account of the “crime” and trial of  James Burr, George Thompson, and Alanson Work, “the  biggest criminal case in Marion County.”
 

February  22 Monday – Sam’s mother, Jane Clemens, was baptized at the First  Presbyterian Church of Hannibal [Dempsey  55].
 

February  18 Thursday – Sam’s mother, Jane Clemens, joined the First  Presbyterian Church of Hannibal [Dempsey  55]. Note: Dempsey found no record  that John Marshall Clemens or his sons ever joined the church.
 

February  7 Sunday – Sam’s sister Pamela joined the First Presbyterian Church of  Hannibal [Dempsey 55].