Independent Mark Twain scholar Kevin MacDonnell will present his intriguing findings regarding the Clemens family’s Hartford butler, George Griffin.
This talk will preview some of the newly discovered details of Griffin’s remarkable life that have since come to light.
Among these new discoveries are the identity of his second enslaver, and the shocking relationships between his first and second enslavers with several of the people who conspired with John Wilkes Booth in his aborted plan to kidnap Abraham Lincoln, and later, to assassinate him.
When Griffin moved to Hartford and married, his first wife presented herself as a young widow, but that was a lie.
Her first husband was alive and well and had something to say about both her and Griffin.
Evidence has also emerged that he met all or most of the following people: Red Cross founder Clara Barton, General Ulysses S.
Grant, President Theodore Roosevelt, President William McKinley, authors George W.
Cable, Joel Chandler Harris, , explorer Henry M.
Stanley, cartoonist Thomas Nast, landscape architect and designer of New York’s Central Park Frederick Law Olmsted, business titans J.
P.
Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and John D.
Rockefeller.
It turns out that Griffin had three children, not two, and their tragic stories will be told.
This talk will be accompanied by more than two dozen never-before-seen images that illustrate the people, places, and documents that played an important role in the life of this man that Twain called “as remarkable a character as I know.” This is a FREE event.
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Independent Mark Twain scholar Kevin MacDonnell will present his intriguing findings regarding the Clemens family’s Hartford butler, George Griffin.
This talk will preview some of the newly discovered details of Griffin’s remarkable life that have since come to light.
Among these new discoveries are the identity of his second enslaver, and the shocking relationships between his first and second enslavers with several of the people who conspired with John Wilkes Booth in his aborted plan to kidnap Abraham Lincoln, and later, to assassinate him.
When Griffin moved to Hartford and married, his first wife presented herself as a young widow, but that was a lie.
Her first husband was alive and well and had something to say about both her and Griffin.
Evidence has also emerged that he met al…
