Mark Twain; Hero of The American Civil War? Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born on November 30th 1835 in Florida. No, not the southern U.S. state. This Florida is a village in the U.S. state of Missouri. Never a large village, the population, according to the 2000 United States Census, was a whopping 9 residents! At 13 years of age Samuel became a printer’s… Read More