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John Marshall Clemens
American lawyer
John Marshall Clemens (August 11, &#;– March 24, ) was the father of author Mark Twain and of journalist and politician Orion Clemens, who was the first and only Secretary of the Nevada Territory.
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Biography
Clemens was the scion of a Virginia family that owned both land and slaves in that state. The Clemens were said to be a Cornish American family originally from Looe in Cornwall, England.[1] However, the Looe museum provides evidence showing that they instead emigrated from Corby.[2] He was born in Campbell County, Virginia, the eldest of five children, to Samuel B.
and Pamela Goggin Clemens.[3] He was named after U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall.
His father died in , whereupon the family moved to Kentucky. Pamela Clemens remarried in , and John Clemens started working at age 11, as a clerk at an iron mine.[3] He undertook the study of law in a local law office and became a licensed lawyer at