Jane Lampton "Jean" Clemens was the daughter of Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Olivia Langdon Clemens.
12 Facts About Jean Clemens
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Jean Clemens drowned in a bathtub at Samuel's home on Christmas Eve 1909, likely due to a seizure.
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Jean Clemens was born in Elmira, New York, the youngest of four children born to author and humorist Mark Twain and Olivia Langdon Clemens.
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Jean Clemens founded or worked with a number of societies for the protection of animals in the various locations where she lived.
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Jean Clemens had epilepsy from age 15 which Twain attributed to a head injury from when she was age 8 or 9.
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Twain's secretary Isabel Lyon claimed that Jean Clemens physically attacked family maid Katy Leary on two occasions in 1906, saying that she wanted to kill her.
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Jean Clemens was sent to an epilepsy colony in Katonah, New York in the fall of 1906 and despite requesting to return home, Twain refused as he doubted his ability to care for her.
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Twain fired Lyon and her new husband in 1909, stating that they were guilty of embezzlement, and Jean Clemens was able to return home in April 1909.
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Jean Clemens and her father got along well, though she found him stubborn and temperamental.
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Jean Clemens was staying at her father's home Stormfield in Redding, Connecticut in December 1909, and she had decorated the home for the upcoming Christmas holiday.
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Jean Clemens's father did not travel with the casket, unable to bring himself to return to the place where he had already buried two children and his wife.
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Jean Clemens commemorated her passing by having his authorized biographer play her favorite piece of music, Impromptu No 2 in A-Major by Schubert.