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Clara Langhorne Clemens Samossoud (formerly Gabrilowitsch; June 8, 1874 – November 19, 1962), was an American concert singer, and the daughter of Samuel Clemens, who wrote as Mark Twain. She managed his estate and guarded his legacy after his death as his only surviving child.
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Nov. 20 (UPI) - Mrs. Clara Langhorne Clemens Samossoud, the last living child of Mark Twain, died last night in Sharp Memorial Hospital. She was 88 years old. Mrs. Samossoud, who suffered from a heart ailment and had been bedridden for several years, entered the hospital Nov. 16.
Clara Langdon Clemens. Clara Langdon Clemens was two years younger than her older sister‚ Susy: She was born June 8‚ 1874. Because they were so close in age‚ much of Clara’s early years are similar to Susy’s: full of social life‚ home schooling in language and music‚ and foreign travel.
Between 1904 and 1910 Clara lost her mother, her sister Jean, and her father; at the age of thirty-five, she was sole heir to the estate of Mark Twain, which was held in trust for her, not to be disposed in its entirety until her own death.
Apr 22, 2000 · When Mark Twain died 90 years ago this week, the machinery that would spin his posthumous image was already oiled and running. At the controls was his daughter Clara, who would spend the...
Oct 28, 2020 · Sam and Livy's second daughter, Clara Langdon Clemens, was born two years after Susy, in 1874. By all accounts, Clara was more adventurous than her sister and tended to get into accidents. She traveled with her mother and father on Sam's world tours, and developed a reputation as a concert pianist.
Clara Clemens (1874-1962), the middle daughter of Sam Clemens, was the preserver of the Mark Twain persona and only daughter to survive her father.
Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835, in the village of Florida, Missouri. When his father died in 1847, Clemens—who was only twelve years old at the time—was sent to be a printer's apprentice.
May 8, 2003 · Clara Clemens Samossoud was Samuel Clemens’s middle daughter, the only one of his four children to survive him. She was born in 1874, was present at her father’s death in 1910, and died in San...
Sam and Livy had four children. Only one of them, Clara, married. She had only one child, a daughter named Nina. Nina died in 1966 without having children. Thus, there are no direct descendants of Mark Twain. There are people living today descended from Samuel L. Clemens’ siblings and ancestors.
