1. The author of the classic American novel Huckleberry Finn is Mark Twain whose real name was Samuel L. Clemens and lived in Hartford for several years.
2. Mark Twain's house was very elaborate and elegant located on Farmington Avenue in an area called Nook Farm neighboring Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
2. Mark Twain's house was very elaborate and elegant located on Farmington Avenue in an area called Nook Farm neighboring Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
3. Mark Twain's home has windows and a balcony overlooking a large side porch that people say it reminds them of a steamboat which Twain used to pilot on the Mississippi in his youth.
4. Mark Twain was one of the first three people in Hartford to own a telephone--- first used commercially in nearby New Haven--- but he never really liked the newfangled gadget because there was practically no one to talk to.
5. Mark Twain loved industrial inventions such as the elaborate Paige typesetter but he lost a fortune investing in it because it was developed at the same time as the Linotype which was much simpler and less expensive.
6. Mark Twain's beloved daughter, Susy, died of spinal meningitis in the Hartford home and he never felt the same about the house again; he soon left it and came back only once for the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner.
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