1. Mark Twain, whose real name is Samuel L. Clemens, lived in Hartford for several years and wrote a classical American novel entitled Huckleberry Finn.
2. Mark Twain has a very elaborate and elegant house in an area called Nook Farm in Farmington Avenue and he was a neighbor of Harriet Beecher who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
3. Windows and balcony overlook the porch of Mark Twain's home in which people say it reminded them of steamboat that Twain piloted in Mississippi in his youth.
4. In Hartford, Twain was one of the first three to own a telephone that was first used in nearby New Haven yet he never like this new gadget since there was no one to talk to.
5. The elaborate Paige setter was one of Mark Twain's inventions, in which he loved industrial designing, that lost fortune and was developed at the same time as the Linotype which was simpler and less expensive.
6. Since Mark Twain's daughter, Susy, died of spiral meningitis in Hartford, he never felt the same about the house and left it yet he returned once for Charles Dudley Warner's funeral, his friend.