- Mark Twain, who has lived in Hartford for several years and whose real name was Samuel L. Clemens, is the author of Huckleberry Finn, a classic American novel.
- Mark Twain's very elaborate and elegant house, located on Farmington Avenue in an area called Noon Farm, was situated near the house of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.
- Mark Twain's home has a large side porch overlooked by windows and a balcony, which, nowadays, remind people of a steamboat that Twain piloted in the Mississippi in his youth.
- Even though Mark Twain was one of the first three people in Hartford to own a telephone, a device first used commercially in New Haven, he never really liked this newfangled gadget since there was practically no one to talk to.
- Mark Twain loved industrial inventions but he lost a fortune investing in them; one of these inventions was the elaborate Paige typesetter, a machine developed at the same time as the Linotype, which, unfortunately for him, much simpler and less expensive.
- After his beloved daughter, Susy, died of spinal meningitis, Mark Twain never felt the same about the house again and so left his Hartford home; he has returned only once to attend the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner.
