Chapter 4Home Life
In 1871 Twain rented a house and bought land on Farmington Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut. In August 1873, they began construction on a house there. He and his family finally moved in on September 19, 1874.
"A home- and the word never had so much a meaning" Twain said. He had his happiest and most productive years in Hartford. The exclusive development that they lived in, Nook Farm, was home to many famous people, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
He also had a small octagonal office at Quarry Farm, Olivia's sisters farm near Elmira, New York. He wrote his most famous books during his time spent there and in the Hartford home, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, Life on the Mississippi, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Sam and Olivia had 4 children, Langdon (who died at age 2), Susy, Clara, and Jean.
He made much money, but when he spent $300,000.00 (modern equivalent of $7,000,000.00) on a typesetter that failed, he lost all of his money. He then went on a huge lecturing tour to every continent (exept Antarctica). But when the family leaves, they leave Susy behind. In 1896 however, Susy dies, and Twain and Olivia sell the house claiming that they could not live where Susy died.
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