Mark Twain - Elmira, NY - Dead Poets' Society Memorials on Waymarking.com

In Cowles Hall, on the campus of Elmira College, the college maintains an exhibit of Mark Twain memorabilia. Among the collection is a bronze bust of Mark Twain by former faculty member Ernfred Anderson.

A life-size bronze bust of Mark Twain rests on a windowsill in the Mark Twain exhibit room in Cowles Hall. Twain is shown from the mid-chest up. He is wearing a vest, jacket, and bow tie. His head is tilted slightly downward and to his left.


Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens who was born in Florida, MO on November 30, 1835. Early in life his family moved to Hannibal, MO on the Mississippi River. His experiences with the people of the river inspired his most famous characters and novels - Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.

Mark Twain, married an Elmira resident Olivia Langdon. They spent many summers with Olivia's sister, Susan Crane, at her mansion at Quarry Farm in Elmira.

In a specially built study Mark Twain wrote major portions of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Prince and the Pauper, A Tramp Abroad, and several shorter works. In 1952, the Mark Twain Study was moved from Quarry Farm to the Elmira College campus

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