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    John marshall clemens biography examples

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  • ↑History of Jackson County Volume I Sketches From Yesterday Gainesboro, Tennessee, by Kimberly Lee Young, appears to be self-published circa 1936, page 10.
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    • John Marshall Clemens

    American lawyer

    John Marshall Clemens (August 11, 1798 – March 24, 1847) 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.

    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 1805, whereupon the family moved to Kentucky. Pamela Clemens remarried in 1809, 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