Mark Twain
1835 – 1910 American Writer, humorist
American author raised in a Missouri lodge.
- Religion
- Presbyterian upbringing
- Affiliations
- Documented Freemason, member of a St. Louis lodge.
Samuel Clemens, known as Mark Twain, was initiated into Polar Star Lodge No. 79 in St. Louis in 1861. He was raised to master mason the same year. His membership appears in lodge records.
In the timeline
- 1861 Mark Twain is initiated a Freemason central figure
- 1905 Mark Twain's King Leopold's Soliloquy central figure