1. Samuel L. Clemins, or better known as Mark Twain, who is the author of the American classic novel Huckleberry Finn has lived in Hartford for several years
2. Mark Twain’s elaborate and elegant house was in an area called Nook Farm in Farmington Avenue and among his neighbours is Harriet Beecher Stowe who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
3. Twain’s home has windows and a balcony that overlook a large side porch which people say that remind them of a steamboat and during his youth, Twain piloted steamboats in Mississippi.
4. Mark Twain was one of the first three people in Hartford to own a telephone, which was first used commercially in nearby Haven, but he never really liked this new-fangled gadget because there was practically no one to talk to.
5. Mark Twain loved industrial inventions and invented the elaborate Paige typesetter, but unfortunately for him this machine was developed at the same time as the simpler and less expensive Linotype, and he lost a fortune investing in them.
6. Mark Twain soon left his Hartford home after his beloved daughter Susy died due to spinal meningitis and returned only once for the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner.
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