1. Samuel L. Clemens, more commonly known as pen name Mark Twain the author of the American classic novel Huckleberry Finn, has lived in Hartford for several years.
2. Mark Twain, neighbor of Harriet Beecher Stowe – the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, had an elaborate and elegant house on Farmington Avenue in an area called Nook Farm.
3. Today, people say that Twain’s windows and balcony overlooking the side porch remind them of a steamboat; an allusion to the fact that Twain has piloted steamboats on the Mississippi in his youth.
4. Mark Twain, one of the first three people in Hartford to own a telephone, never really liked the newfangled gadget even if it was first used commercially in nearby New Haven; the reason being there was practically no one to talk to.
5. The Paige typesetter, an item invested by the industrial-inventions-loving Twain, was developed around the time of the simpler and cheaper Linotype; thus causing Twain to lose a fortune.
6. After the death of Mark Twain’s beloved daughter due to spiral meningitis, Twain returned to Hartford, after leaving it, only once for the funeral of his friend Charles Dudley Warner even if he never felt the same about his home again ever since then.
